Street Sign

[Kilroy]

Tom, bought it off Ebay some 5-10 yrs ago, and can't remember what I paid. I've seen them show up on Ebay occasionally, but the prices are across the board.

[collecture]

The house I grew up in was on a corner. I have the two porcelain street signs that they took down in the 70's to put up highly reflective ones. I got them right out of the hands of the city workers. There are not nearly as old as the ones you guys have, but boy are they heavy.

[mznb1u]

A few years back I saw an article about a town somewhere in Ontario that had changed out all of their street signs and they were selling the old ones to the public.  I requested the list and was going to buy a few but the shipping would have been far more than the cost of the signs.  Here are a few signs that I have collected over the years.  The first one was "collected" from a college campus many years ago--it gets good reactions at parties when you place it behind the bar.  The other three were salvaged from the back room of my dad's drugstore right before we sold the place in 1977.  The last two are from the Michigan Liquor Licensing Commission and are reverse painted on square pieces of plate glass.  This sign had to be displayed along with your liquor license somewhere visible in the store.  I am guessing that these were manufactured for the MLLC by guests of the state at one of the prisons.  Can you spot the error in the last sign?

Enjoy!

  Tim

[BONOVOX]

The city of Toronto advertised that there would be an quction for all their old signs (the one that I have, although I didnt get mine at an auction ;o)

Then, I never heard anything after about the signs, and this was a couple of years ago.

[collecture]

Can you spot the error in the last sign?

I never was espeoially good at that game! 

[mznb1u]

I never was espeoially good at that game! 

Winner, winner, chicken dinner!  When I found this sign, I thought the mistake was hilarious.  Although, a few years later I was at a Michigan football game, I bought a Coke and the souvenier plastic cup said "University of Mighigan" on it.  Probably a joke pulled by a Michigan State packaging engineering graduate!  Not too funny to a Michigan fan though! 

  Tim

[briandr1]

lol i noticed the o instead of a c in specially