Sign, sign, everywhere a sign

[jbvb]

I think all the states I've driven in have their own format for road signs, usually a legend at the bottom or top, sometimes an outline of the state for the border etc.. Massachusetts provides town boundary signage on state highways. When I was working on the NMRA AP Scenery certificate I scratchbuilt a boundary sign and a route sign. Now I need more.  This is one side of the boundary sign:



This is a relatively recent style, using reflectorized plastic.  Going far enough back, the bottom edge was scrolled too, but I don't have a good enough photo to model them.,

[jbvb]

I've gotten back to scanning slides. This was shot in Minneapolis, MN in 1982, on what I noted as MILW track some distance south of their final passenger depot.  The Security Warehouse Co. banner on the newer (RH) building is something you see in urban photos throughout the 20th century. The separate sign on the older (LH) building might be from that structure not being designed with an appropriate facade.