State Highway Signs

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06/29/2018 at 10:55 • Filed to: None

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Kinja'd!!! Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn
06/29/2018 at 11:03

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Kinja'd!!! Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn
06/29/2018 at 11:06

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I love how Florida was always like “Dammit, we’re putting out state outline on the sign even though it’s the worst state for that!”


Kinja'd!!! CobraJoe > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
06/29/2018 at 11:06

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I feel like I should know where that is....

EDIT: Looks like the roads lead to Ellsworth NE. I’ve never actually been there. I guess rural NE looks the same all over the state .


Kinja'd!!! deprecated account > ttyymmnn
06/29/2018 at 11:07

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Is that Comic fucking Sans on Alaska’s???


Kinja'd!!! Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > ttyymmnn
06/29/2018 at 11:10

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I’ve always liked our Sunflower motif here in Kansas.


Kinja'd!!! ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn
06/29/2018 at 11:11

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Not that the current NM state road signs are bad, but I really dig the ones used from the 20's up to about the 60's.

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Kinja'd!!! WilliamsSW > CobraJoe
06/29/2018 at 11:13

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Centrally located - right in the middle of nowhere.


Kinja'd!!! Urambo Tauro > ttyymmnn
06/29/2018 at 11:14

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Interesting. Never seen them all together like that.

I would guess that if they ever were to adopt a nationally standardized format, it would probably end up being some sort of black-on-white-on-black version. I like the state-shaped ones, although I suppose that wouldn’t work very well for Hawaii...


Kinja'd!!! CobraJoe > WilliamsSW
06/29/2018 at 11:15

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Oh, I’m familiar with the location... There’s just a lot of it. 


Kinja'd!!! davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn
06/29/2018 at 11:17

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Colorado is really nice. I prefer it, but it makes the numbers smaller (less legible). From a purely functional perspective, I think I give Illinois the nod.


Kinja'd!!! ShrimpHappens, née WJalopy > ttyymmnn
06/29/2018 at 11:21

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In re: New Hampshire

Didn’t that face-on-the-mountain formation fall off?


Kinja'd!!! WilliamsSW > CobraJoe
06/29/2018 at 11:23

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I’ve spent some time in Alliance/Scottsbluff - very pretty out there, but very empty, too--


Kinja'd!!! Aremmes > deprecated account
06/29/2018 at 11:25

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It wouldn’t shock me if they did use it, but it looks more like an italic font with serifs .


Kinja'd!!! deprecated account > Aremmes
06/29/2018 at 11:29

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Just checked google images for a larger image, thankfully it’s not comic sans


Kinja'd!!! CobraJoe > WilliamsSW
06/29/2018 at 11:31

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Haven’t been that far west since high school, so I don’t remember that much of it, but I grew up on the eastern edge of the sandhills and visit there fairly regularly.

Maybe we need to head out of the way to go to C arhenge on our summer trip though...


Kinja'd!!! ttyymmnn > CobraJoe
06/29/2018 at 11:31

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Nebraska looks like Nebraska all over the state. Which is not to say that’s it’s boring, just somewhat derivative.


Kinja'd!!! ttyymmnn > Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)
06/29/2018 at 11:32

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Have driven across KS. Can confirm.


Kinja'd!!! Aremmes > ttyymmnn
06/29/2018 at 11:32

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I should point out that Puerto Rico uses a stupid mix of route marker shields with absolutely no consistency. They also use round markers, pentagonal county route markers (on state routes, mind), white-on-black shields similar to the blue one in the image, and randomly shaped pieces of painted plywood or MDF .


Kinja'd!!! ttyymmnn > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
06/29/2018 at 11:33

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Back when road atlases literally said things like, “Turn at the white farmhouse and cross the bridge....”


Kinja'd!!! ttyymmnn > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
06/29/2018 at 11:34

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Very similar to TX. Boring, but efficient.


Kinja'd!!! ttyymmnn > ShrimpHappens, née WJalopy
06/29/2018 at 11:34

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Yes , 15 years ago.


Kinja'd!!! CobraJoe > ttyymmnn
06/29/2018 at 11:35

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That’s the truth.

I’ve lived here long enough to see the difference between the hills of the sandhills and the hills of the eastern half of the state....  But yeah. 


Kinja'd!!! ttyymmnn > CobraJoe
06/29/2018 at 11:38

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I have driven across KS from south to north (spent the night in Lindeborg), as well as the eastern third to KC. The state gets a bad rap for being flat and boring, but I love the grasslands, especially in early summer. 


Kinja'd!!! Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > ttyymmnn
06/29/2018 at 11:39

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Sings are better than the roads.


Kinja'd!!! Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > ttyymmnn
06/29/2018 at 11:40

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Sorry montana’s signs are boring, but our roads are not.


Kinja'd!!! ttyymmnn > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
06/29/2018 at 11:43

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I made it to South Dakota and Wyoming this year. Haven’t quite gotten up to Montana yet (though I’ve been on the Canadian side).


Kinja'd!!! interstate366, now In The Industry > ttyymmnn
06/29/2018 at 11:47

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Photographing highway signs used to be a hobby of mine. Somewhere on my old hard drive I have lots of Virginia and North Carolina ones.


Kinja'd!!! WilliamsSW > CobraJoe
06/29/2018 at 11:47

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Carhenge and the other car art there are pretty cool.  But I’m not sure that they’re w orth going all that far out of your way for.  Mostly just to be able to say you’ve been there, I guess.


Kinja'd!!! ttyymmnn > interstate366, now In The Industry
06/29/2018 at 11:54

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I’ve got this sticker on my van.

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Kinja'd!!! Spanfeller is a twat > ttyymmnn
06/29/2018 at 11:57

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Those are literally laws but under Mexico’s highway code those are “unnecessary"


Kinja'd!!! CobraJoe > WilliamsSW
06/29/2018 at 12:18

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Well, coming from Omaha, going to the black hills, and I want to avoid interstate (I’ve done it once before, it’s a decent trip). Dodging south through Alliance only adds 15min to the total trip compared to the most direct state highway route.

It’d be a great place to stop to stretch the legs at least. 


Kinja'd!!! Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
06/29/2018 at 12:57

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In the small form I thought the sign had a steaming pile of dung at the bottom. Couldn’t remember that they had a picture on it...


Kinja'd!!! Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Ash78, voting early and often
06/29/2018 at 12:58

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They should have just done a square sign with a tag line, “America’s Wang”.


Kinja'd!!! WilliamsSW > CobraJoe
06/29/2018 at 13:21

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Oh, for that short of a detour, it’s worth it. And Alliance is a big enough town to take a break in, too - not many out there.

Plus, if anyone in the family is a railfan, it’s a very busy spot on the BNSF for coal trains coming out of the Powder River Basin.


Kinja'd!!! CobraJoe > WilliamsSW
06/29/2018 at 14:21

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I’m sure our youngest would like to see some big trains, but we’ll see if I can talk my wife into spending more time in the car instead of taking the faster roads. 


Kinja'd!!! FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn
06/29/2018 at 19:50

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Interestingly here in NM, not all the signs have the Zia (sun) symbol on them.  When you get far enough into the sticks they just use a simple white circle on a black square like Delaware, Iowa, Kentucky, etc.  I assume it’s just for cost reasons.


Kinja'd!!! Doctor of internal combustion > ttyymmnn
07/02/2018 at 15:25

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that’s on my beer fridge, along with California 1, us 66, and a couple others I can’t remember