Welcome back for today's edition of Old Tyme Sign Classics.....last time i shared with you old piccys of signs from far away places that i wished i could get back....for THIS installment of The Trip Down Terror Lane, we stick closer to home...namely Ohio.....

( More idiocy!!!! )

A couple of weeks back, i posted some signs that i used to have in my collection some 15 or so years ago, some (well, most all of them actually) that i wished i had back in my collection...

Tonight, we will look at the signs that, if i still had them, would have filled a LOT of significant gaps in my collection!  (hence the subtitle above!  Who ( Read more... )

Well, i spoke to Jeff at the ConnDOT Sign Shop this morning...he did get the email with all the photos you saw in the previous entry attached, your opinions as expressed in LJ as well as the AARoads Forum and the Signal Traffic Forums (which had the blue 15 ahead by a significant margin over the blue on white, with support for a black and white ( Read more... )

(Those of you who have seen this on either the AARoads Forum or Signal Traffic Forums or my main LJ can feel free to not vote, but please do add your feedback
Based upon some wild whim i had been kicking around for quite a while, i took it upon myself to take this classic CONN 15 photo and work it a little bit on Photoshop....

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Welcome to our first installment of Old Tyme Sign Classics, a montage of signs I USED to have and in some cases, wish i STILL had...

These were made from negatives i took back from 1991 to 1993 when i started being forced to sell some of them off to pay bills (at the time, i was working two jobs and STILL not able to totally make ends meet.....)   ( Read more... )

Sorry Jake!  I liked the idea....and i finally had a sign to do it with!


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Armed with my trusty Fujifilm F480, i went out sign hunting while on vacation.  While i was unable to locate good signs in Delaware, i came up with enough stuff otherwise to fill a good-size page!

Going state-by State (not date shot)

( So your Friends List doesn't have a nervous breakdown... )

Well, lessee...where did I leave off?

well, i ended up not really going out in the rain...as it turns out, the skies were too dark for any really good photography...so i stopped by the store, picked up some tuna and mayo, and made lunch for the trip back....

Friday morning, packed lunch, ate a fast breakfast and checked out.  Drove to the other place ( Read more... )

Left early Monday morning to head East for my semi-annual sign shopping trip.   Stopped in Wheeling W VA first to see if i could scarf anything up there (not likely as the guy i needed to speak to was out until mid-afternoon, but the answer was likely 'no' anyway.  Stopped by PennDOT in Pittsburgh and had no luck there either.  Headed east on the ( Read more... )

After a back and forth on my last entry with Mike that led to his photo shoot here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/55173627@N 00/3024701941/

well/////i felt like i had to do something....

so, feel free to blame Mike!

Had to do this.......sorry, Mike....i just had to!  *LOL* but it was fun!

( So your FL doesnt get a nervous breakdown! )