New England trip

[hm insulators]

That US 1 toll bridge sure looks like a rickety old thing!

[SidS1045]

NH is a head.

Not "a" head.  It's supposed to be a representation of the late, lamented Old Man of the Mountain...a rock formation on the south face of Cannon Mountain in Franconia Notch that, when viewed from the east at certain angles, looked like the side view of a face with a very square jaw and thick eyebrows.  It was first seen in the early-1800's and, despite decades of desperate measures to keep it intact, it disintegrated after a rain and quick freeze in the spring of 2003.  It appears on the NH state quarter coin and there are no plans that I'm aware of to remove it from the state highway markers.

This is the best image I can find of the Old Man:  http://hikethewhites.com/old_man.html

[agentsteel53]

Not "a" head. 

well, in the context of Truvelo's question - "a head'   I definitely remember the Old Man, having seen it many a time on my childhood trips.  I certainly hope they do not remove it from the state route markers. 

do you happen to know when they installed it on their markers?  When I was growing up, I remember most of the shields being with the Old Man, but a lot of the plain squares still around.  Do not know when they went with the black-background Old Man; sometime in the 80s?

[SidS1045]

do you happen to know when they installed it on their markers?  When I was growing up, I remember most of the shields being with the Old Man, but a lot of the plain squares still around.  Do not know when they went with the black-background Old Man; sometime in the 80s?

Not precisely, although I'd have to guess it was sometime in the 1970's.  I lived in NH from 1976 to 1980, and when I moved there about half of the state highway markers (that I recall seeing) had the Old Man outline and half had a plain outlined square.  By the time I left, lots of them had been replaced with the Old Man outline, and I doubt that today you'd find more than a handful with a plain square.  (NH is one of the few states which will not use rectangular markers for 3-digit route numbers.  They use FHWA-B if they have to.)