Your favorite signs that you own

[mcdonaat]

Post photos of your favorite signs that you've either bought, rescued, or stumbled upon (yes, I did stumble upon a Louisiana highway sign on a non-state road, 12 miles from the nearest state highway).


Washington Parish 61 - from what I know, it's the last parish marker left in Washington Parish. A Louisiana highway forms the southern part of PR 61, so at the northern end of the route, you have old markers that are basically left untouched.


LA 524 - my only wall-mountable green Louisiana shield. The ones I can mount are black and white, but that looks dull and boring! LA 524 marker is from 1999; green arrows are from the mid-sixties, based on the Louisiana shield mounted above.

[Ian]

My all time favorite shield that I own which will be in possession with me as long as I'm alive is my New Hampshire I-89 shield. Some of the other ones that I also am favorable of are my Massachusetts I-95 shield, my US 666 shield, and my New York Thruway shield.

[Takumi]

I have only a few signs, but this is probably the most, um, memorable.


I'd have to say my US 101 cutout and old Speed Limit 35 are second and third.

[Alps]

I lack photos of a couple of my favorites. But I really have a lot to love around here.

My very own Bott's Dot, from Route 66 no less:

This guy, because I'd never seen a Scotchlite arrow until Ebay:

A route that no longer exists in my home state, and the only wooden sign ever made by NJDOT for permanent installation:

Disembodied hand FTW (and a place that hasn't existed since the 1800s):

These guys from Colorado:

Last and most, my favorite treasure, Kansas sunburst with the rays all pointing straight:

[1995hoo]

I don't have a photo of it, but my father has a moose crossing sign from Ontario that features a charging moose with its rack of antlers lowered. I've laid claim to the sign if he ever decides he no longer wants it or when the time comes to "inherit" it (hopefully THAT will not occur for a long time). We saw a lot of that style of sign in northern Ontario (up towards Cochrane and Timmins) on a family vacation in 1986 and my father liked the sign so much he ordered one from a store somewhere in the Toronto area. I do not recall the details.

We're having dinner at their house tomorrow night and I'll try to get a picture of the sign if I remember.

[US71]

These are the first signs I ever bought:


I don't remember what I paid: probably less than $20 each. I found them at a weekend flea market about 30 years ago.

I got this off e-bay 3-4 years ago


Flea market find


Custom job courtesy of Jake

He's also done a couple US shields for me.

[Roadsguy]

The only real road sign that I own is a slightly bent, not-that-old one-way sign that me and my dad picked up from the ground after it fell of the pole sometime before.

[agentsteel53]

This guy, because I'd never seen a Scotchlite arrow until Ebay:

I don't believe that this is Scotchlite.  it appears to be made of a non-flexible heavy molded plastic instead.  that probably dates it to the 30s or 40s, before Scotchlite became popular.

in other news, this is my favorite sign:

[ctsignguy]

Dont have any one particular fave, but a few unusual or different ones that i like to show visitors.....

[kphoger]

I love that it's on a post!

[Roadsguy]

East CT Tpke. - the room

West CT Tpke. - that hallway

[bugo]

I have two that stand out:  First is a US 59 embossed cutout from 1934:



Second is the only Arkansas I-49 sign known in existence.  I had it custom made:

[DaBigE]

Pardon the low-quality phone pics:


This assembly has the most personal meaning. Hwy 33 runs through the town I grew up in; went to East High School. 33 is the number for Heisman Trophy winning running back from Wisconsin, Ron Dayne. Hwy 33 is also the first project I worked on out of college.


This one was Frankenstein'd together from parts found on eBay, including the 3M sheeting. It hangs on the wall in my office at work.


Got this one on a close-out special from a sign manufacturer.

[Central Avenue]

Got this one on a close-out special from a sign manufacturer.

I giggled, because I have the mind of a 12-year-old.

[Kacie Jane]

I'll see if I can post a picture of it and others in the near future, but my favorite has to be my 1948 NY 17 shield.

[KEVIN_224]

So the old Connecticut Turnpike was signed as EAST and WEST? Wow! That must have predated I-95. It definitely predates I-395 from Waterford to the MA border, since that portion of the Turnpike was CT Route 52 until the early 1980s.

[Kacie Jane]

I'm too lazy to look up dates at the moment, but regardless of which came first, there was a time at the beginning when not only was the turnpike signed east/west, but I-95 as well!  Not only that, but I believe that to this day, there are rogue east/west banners on US 1 in the state.

[Alps]

I'm too lazy to look up dates at the moment, but regardless of which came first, there was a time at the beginning when not only was the turnpike signed east/west, but I-95 as well!  Not only that, but I believe that to this day, there are rogue east/west banners on US 1 in the state.

Interesting point on the latter - When I started roading around 2001-2, the east/west signs in the eastern part of CT had yet to be replaced for the most part, while most of the ones in the western part were gone. Sometime in the middle of the decade, CT came through, and now there are almost no east/west signs east of New Haven. Curiously, though, the once-few east/west signs in the western part of the state back in 2001-2 are still around now in 2012-3, making them the large majority of what you'll be able to find.

[ctsignguy]

Found these back in 2010 in Bridgeport, CT i think...

[RJ145]

As you can probably tell, this one is my favorite. I finally found one after years of searching:

[Central Avenue]

For Christmas, my parents had a street blade made with my first name on it:



So yeah, that's easily my favorite of the very few signs I own.

[Takumi]

I have to admit, as I was waiting for that picture to load, I expected a Central Avenue street blade.

[ctsignguy]

I have to admit, as I was waiting for that picture to load, I expected a Central Avenue street blade.

I am certain we can find her one....

[nyratk1]

My favorite of the signs I own:

http://i.imgur.com/R6Jhg.jpg (E 176 St from the Bronx, a few blocks away from where my dad went to HS before he moved out to LI)

http://i.imgur.com/0FQF4.jpg (Edgar Av from Brookhaven, NY near where I went to elementary school)

http://i.imgur.com/y4ZVJ.jpg (Whiskey Rd from Coram/Middle Island/Ridge, NY)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nyratk1/7032860325/ (NY 25 handpainted sign from somewhere on North Fork of LI, prob Suffolk County installation on Suffolk CR 48)

http://i.imgur.com/oQC5g.jpg (Granny Rd from Medford/Coram, NY)

http://i.imgur.com/gTAW8.jpg (from NYC, got them from a plastics manufacturer that was doing the light up signs, these were prototypes)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nyratk1/5870346186/ yellow STOP, have no idea where this was from

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nyratk1/5245635290/ Southern State Pkwy. and NY 27 that I got new from a few different sign manufacturers

[ctsignguy]

Picked up another interesting piece or two....