Daily Picture Challenge!

[chays]

UPDATE:  HOLY CRAP I FOUND ONE...but it's not a BGS -_-


IL-101-ET by Paul Drives, on Flickr

Wow, good enough for me, who cares if it's not a BGS.  Great find. 

[jmd41280]

FEBRUARY 7: Post a single BGS that uses each of the 5 vowels exactly one time.  If that is too much of a challenge, any sign that contains all five vowels is fine.

This BGS meets the second criterion...


US 322 approaching US 22 / US 522 split - Lewistown, PA by Jon Dawson, on Flickr

[empirestate]

February 8, 2017
Challenge: Post photos of signs whose typical color scheme has been altered for intentional effect (i.e., not errors).

Here's an example, where white-on-blue or white-on-green color schemes have been re-cast to reflect the location within the Adirondack Park, where a yellow-on-brown color scheme is used. (Interestingly, the mileage sign is unaltered white-on-green.)
lakeplacid by NateOMatic, on Flickr

[wanderer2575]

February 8, 2017
Challenge: Post photos of signs whose typical color scheme has been altered for intentional effect (i.e., not errors).

Not your typical BGS in a construction area:

[OracleUsr]

AAAAHHHH, MY EYES!!!!!!!!!  A yellow LEFT banner on an orange sign??

[paulthemapguy]

February 8, 2017
Challenge: Post photos of signs whose typical color scheme has been altered for intentional effect (i.e., not errors).

More Adirondack signs


IMG_2862 by Paul Drives, on Flickr

[slorydn1]

FEBRUARY 7: Post a single BGS that uses each of the 5 vowels exactly one time.  If that is too much of a challenge, any sign that contains all five vowels is fine.

Despite a few missing letters, this was south of Jacksonville along I-95:

Ahh, the infamous "Flordia" sign. I was wondering if they would ever get around to fixing that.

[chays]

February 8, 2017
Challenge: Post photos of signs whose typical color scheme has been altered for intentional effect (i.e., not errors).

Picher, OK, is a former mining town that has been forcibly abandoned by the government due to environmental and health hazards.  This abandonment is fairly recent, so much so that GSV at one time was able to capture all the different streets in town, back in 2008.  You can see all the existing buildings in GSV on the side streets in town.

The latest GSV run was in 2016, and as far as I can tell, only covers the main drag of US 69.  Many streets are blocked off.  One that isn't is 4th St.  You can see that it has red street blades.  I'm wondering if this intentional and for what reason.
https://goo.gl/maps/hFooFT3skcE2

[hbelkins]

I've seen red street blades, but can't remember off the top of my head where.

[empirestate]

In my area, private roads are marked with green-on-white street blades, the inverse of those used for public ones.


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[Big John]

I've seen red street blades, but can't remember off the top of my head where.

There are some in Portage County WI along WI 54: https://www.google.com/maps/@44.3853505,-89.4118122,3a,75y,350.62h,84.43t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sfIkEAZVIQ4Or_Ry4Scaokw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

[Jim]

February 8, 2017
Challenge: Post photos of signs whose typical color scheme has been altered for intentional effect (i.e., not errors).

I'll also offer up some Adirondack Park brown and yellow.  Indian Lake.  April 25, 2009.



Saranac Lake.  March 20, 2016.

[paulthemapguy]

I've seen red street blades, but can't remember off the top of my head where.

I know that North Aurora, Illinois, uses them.

[empirestate]

I've seen red street blades, but can't remember off the top of my head where.

I know that North Aurora, Illinois, uses them.

An inspiration for this Challenge was a yellow-on-blue street blade, made to match (and mounted with) a county pentagon marker. Anybody got a photo of that?

[jbnv]

February 8, 2017
Challenge: Post photos of signs whose typical color scheme has been altered for intentional effect (i.e., not errors).

Not your typical BGS in a construction area:

Not that unusual for Ohio.

[empirestate]

February 9, 2017
Challenge: Post photos of weather- or emergency-related road or freeway closure gates in active deployment.

[empirestate]

February 10, 2017
Challenge: Post street blades located along a road but not at an intersection (such as a name change mid-block, or at a municipal line).

Here's a pair of them, this time at the Putnam/Dutchess County line:

https://goo.gl/maps/BAQfvpw7E962



And since it is, as yet, unanswered, yesterday's challenge remains open as well, until an answer is submitted:

February 9, 2017
Challenge: Post photos of weather- or emergency-related road or freeway closure gates in active deployment.

[MNHighwayMan]

February 10, 2017
Challenge: Post street blades located along a road but not at an intersection (such as a name change mid-block, or at a municipal line).

In Des Moines, 51st St crosses the dividing line between north and south, becoming SW 51st St on the south side of the line. Because there isn't a cross street there, this is what the city put up:



There's also several streets that loop around, such as SW 39th St looping 180 degrees to become SW 40th St on the other side:



And one of my favorite Des Moines street names, Druid Hill Dr, loops around to become the lame Pleasant View Dr:

[Michael]

I keep forgetting about this thread.  It's a cool idea!  Anyway, the first street blade that came to mind was this local one at the Cayuga/Wayne county line.  Another local one is this one in Port Byron at the north/west end of the NY 31/NY 38 duplex.

I wasn't even thinking of streets that change names at a turn until seeing the last picture in the previous post.  There's a bunch of these in my hometown of Weedsport:
Green St/North Willow St
South Willow St/Lockwood Ave
Basin St/Marshall St
Highland Ave/East Terrace St
Washington St/Cool St
Cool St/Lincoln St

[jbnv]

Start of Terrace Highway in St. Martin Parish, LA. (The blade is bent forward but clearly there.)

[jmd41280]

February 10, 2017
Challenge: Post street blades located along a road but not at an intersection (such as a name change mid-block, or at a municipal line).

I know I posted this photo several challenges back, however this photo definitely meets today's criteria.  This street blade marks the WV/PA border along the old National Pike in West Alexander, PA.


PA/WV state line on Old National Pike by Jon Dawson, on Flickr

[TravelingBethelite]

I'm back, after an extended absence...but anyway, I hope at least one, if not both, of these count:

[TravelingBethelite]

It's after midnight in the U.S. Virgin Islands, so time to make a pick (yay, it's my turn!) for Saturday's Challenge:

February 11th, 2017
Challenge: Post pictures of the oldest sign (NOT oldest photo of a sign) in your photo collection (can be a street sign, BGS (extra brownie points for button copy), freestanding route sign, distance sign, etc., etc.

For context, here's mine:



EDIT:

February 11th, 2017
Challenge: Post pictures of the oldest sign (NOT oldest photo of a sign) in your photo collection in the wild(can be a street sign, BGS (extra brownie points for button copy), freestanding route sign, distance sign, etc., etc.

(MNHighwayMan, you're still good.)

[MNHighwayMan]

February 11th, 2017
Challenge: Post pictures of the oldest sign (NOT oldest photo of a sign) in your photo collection (can be a street sign, BGS (extra brownie points for button copy), freestanding route sign, distance sign, etc., etc.

Not sure if signs in my sign collection count, but I'll post this picture anyway because they are definitely the oldest signs I have photographed: two original 1920s/30s Minnesota trunk highway markers

[Jim]

February 11th, 2017
Challenge: Post pictures of the oldest sign (NOT oldest photo of a sign) in your photo collection (can be a street sign, BGS (extra brownie points for button copy), freestanding route sign, distance sign, etc., etc.

I have no way to know the age of almost any of the signs I've photographed, but this one looks old, at least.  I can delete the post if the rule is that we need to be more sure of it being our own oldest sign photographed, or if this is in some other way not in the spirit of today's challenge.

This was taken in Washington, DC, taken on May 27, 2000.