Pentagonal school warning signs with "SCHOOL" text

[bandit957]

Say, does anyone remember these? They didn't last long.

The modern school warning signs are pentagonal with a picture of kids crossing the street, but older ones (before the '70s) were the standard yellow diamond warning signs with the word "SCHOOL". You may have seen them.

But I actually remember seeing yellow signs with the modern pentagonal shape with just the word "SCHOOL". I don't remember many, and I don't think there were very many. There must have been a very brief period when they stopped using the diamond shape but before they started using pictures.

Anyone else remember them? I can't find any photographic evidence of them.

[Scott5114]

I doubt they were MUTCD standard. My guess is that a state or states experimented with the pentagon and then it was added to the 1970 MUTCD, same time as stuff was getting switched over to pictograms.

[Brian556]

I know I've seen one of these as a news graphic.

[ctsignguy]

You mean like this?

[bandit957]

You mean like this?

I don't mean like that. The pentagon was pointed upward and had the same dimensions and shape as the modern pentagonal signs. And it just said "SCHOOL", not "SCHOOL ZONE".