Street Name Blades Most Stolen

[mapman1071]

2 decades back The Town Of Paradise Valley, AZ Had to replace many Joshua Tree Lane Signs & Blades due to the release of U2's Joshua Tree.

[oscar]

In Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Ragged Ass Rd. had persistent sign theft problems, until a street blade was permanently bonded to a hard-to-steal boulder, and other blades were welded to their posts. See this earlier post for photos (scroll about halfway down the page).

The officially-named Road to Nowhere in Iqaluit, Nunavut has had street blades, but none were there when I was. The local tourist brochure said the blades often "disappeared", so I had to make do with the sign photo in the brochure.

I bet you thought Canadians were more law-abiding than those of us south of the border, eh?

[Big John]

Related topic: https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=16238.0

[1995hoo]

There's an Electric Avenue near Tysons Corner in Virginia that had this problem regularly during the early 1980s.

[bmorrill]

San Angelo finally renamed Gay St. Grace Lane to prevent the signs from being stolen as fast as they could be put up. 

(It's only a block long, same as Midget St.)

[opspe]

SW Hooker St has been the victims of many thefts in Portland, so they mounted the blades about 12' high.

[tckma]

There's an Electric Avenue near Tysons Corner in Virginia that had this problem regularly during the early 1980s.

There's also an Electric Avenue in Leominster, MA, which I assume suffered from similar sign thefts.

Not a street sign, but there is the village of Fucking, Austria, which has its  signs stolen frequently.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Not to mention all those mileposts 69, 420 and 666/66.6 . I once spotted that a kmpost 69 was missing.

In this side of the pond, the blade for Calle AC/DC in Leganes, a suburb of Madrid, was repeatedly stolen.

[peterj920]

In Green Bay, WI.  Sign bolted due to frequent thefts. 

[TheHighwayMan3561]

Some rural Minnesota communities were having problems with 420th Avenue signs being stolen, so the solution for some of them was to style the sign to read "42Xth Avenue" instead.

[nexus73]

In California there is a city called Weed.  I wonder how much Weed-related signs, badges and patches get stolen there?

Rick

[hm insulators]

What about all the US 666 signs stolen down through the years before they renumbered it?

[NE2]

SW Hooker St has been the victims of many thefts in Portland, so they mounted the blades about 12' high.

And now they wear stilts instead of heels.

[ET21]

Not to mention all those mileposts 69, 420 and 666/66.6 . I once spotted that a kmpost 69 was missing.

You can add 666th street, ave, etc... 69th street, ave, etc... 

[bmorrill]

In California there is a city called Weed.  I wonder how much Weed-related signs, badges and patches get stolen there?

Rick

Related to this: there's a town named Fucking in Austria that has an ongoing problem with people stealing the city-limits signs, taking pictures of people doing what the signs say, etc., etc.

[cl94]

In California there is a city called Weed.  I wonder how much Weed-related signs, badges and patches get stolen there?

Rick

Related to this: there's a town named Fucking in Austria that has an ongoing problem with people stealing the city-limits signs, taking pictures of people doing what the signs say, etc., etc.

Same thing happens in Intercourse, PA.

[SidS1045]

there's a town named Fucking in Austria that has an ongoing problem with people stealing the city-limits signs, taking pictures of people doing what the signs say, etc., etc.

They finally solved the problem by welding the signs to their posts and burying the posts deeper than normal in the ground.  You'd need enough force to rip it out of the ground that you'd probably destroy the sign in the process.

[NE2]

You'd need enough force to rip it out of the ground that you'd probably destroy the sign in the process.

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[kkt]

Haight and Ashbury in San Francisco.  I think they did something to make them harder to steal, but I'm not sure what now.

You can buy plastic replicas online, which is about as far from hippie culture as you can get.

[Rothman]

High Point Drive in Amherst, MA has its sign stolen every few years or so.

[TEG24601]

Locally...


Fox Spit Rd.


Dead Goat Rd.


Tree Frog Ln.


And for a short period, French Rd.

[JustDrive]

There are no street name blades for Blue Jay Way in Los Angeles. The street names are painted on the curbs.

[1995hoo]

There are no street name blades for Blue Jay Way in Los Angeles. The street names are painted on the curbs.

I take it the street blades' survival time won't be very long?

[JustDrive]

I take it the street blades' survival time won't be very long?

I still say the city of LA should sell "Blue Jay Way" signs. With some proceeds going to the Harrison estate

[tckma]

Not a blade sign, per se, but I'd imagine directional signs to Dildo, NL are often stolen.