OTHER PEOPLE'S ROAD PHOTOS
In addition to my own road photos - plus a few by my immediate family - there's other road pictures out there that you need to be regaled with until your face flies off in public. Google Street View and the Kentucky Post are major sources of these energizing vitamins and minerals. But watch out! The copyrights to these photos are not owned by me, so I'm linking to outside websites instead of copying the photos here.
All these photos are in Kentucky unless stated otherwise.
https://www.kentonlibrary.org/genphotos/viewimage.php?i=di32029 - 1967
This old news photo in Dayton, KY, purports to depict 2nd Avenue. What you see here - probably even the street itself - is almost certainly long gone, replaced by the floodwall. You can bring up a larger version of the photo to clearly see the presumably yellow stop sign. I think that stop sign was a signature Dayton style. There was one like this at the top of Lincoln Road until at least the late 1970s.
https://www.kentonlibrary.org/genphotos/viewimage.php?i=di15063 - 1967
Some circulars, long live 'em. Fort Thomas had a Centennial Parade for the town's 100th anniversary. This is on Fort Thomas Avenue, but if you look at the larger version, you can see that confusing signage that says KY 445 and 1120 are going north and east, even though we're going southwest - confusion that likely still persists, but with newer signs. The thing about the KY 1120 marker is that I'm still looking for ones like it that had much taller, skinnier numerals - which may have still stood in the 2000s.
https://www.kentonlibrary.org/genphotos/viewimage.php?i=di23647
I'm guessing about 1968, but look at that KY 1303 sign, which uses an even older format. The young woman in this photo must have been a Roads Scholar, since she seems to be interested in the KY 1303 marker. This is on Turkeyfoot Road in a Kenton County suburb.
https://www.kentonlibrary.org/genphotos/viewimage.php?i=di11033 - 1970
Crawford Avenue in Bellevue. All but a tiny stump of this street was torn down to build I-471. These houses and this road are gone.
https://www.kentonlibrary.org/genphotos/viewimage.php?i=di13809 - 1976
Even in the 1970s, Dayton, KY, was being hit by "urban renewal." And not just to make way for the popular floodwall, but also just because. I'm not sure where this is, but it's probably all gone now. The stop sign is the signature 1970s Dayton style. It's subtly different from other stop signs in a way I just can't quite put my finger on. (The lettering may be slightly smaller.)
https://www.kentonlibrary.org/genphotos/viewimage.php?i=di81795
Possibly 1980s. This is looking south on the old Licking Pike (KY 9) at Johns Hill Road in Wilder. The stretch of Licking Pike straight ahead no longer exists and is now overgrown. The caption says the road was plagued by slippage, but the replacement road is even closer to the Licking River. KY 1998 here later became KY 2345, surprising millions.
https://www.kentonlibrary.org/genphotos/viewimage.php?i=di83138 - 1989
Highland Avenue in Fort Thomas still had an old big-digit embossed speed limit sign in 1989! This photo was during the horrible October ice storm that I had to go to school in.
https://www.kentonlibrary.org/genphotos/viewimage.php?i=di82413 - 1991
In the Latonia neighborhood of Covington, this was a narrow - probably not motorable - stretch of Earle Avenue. Now this stretch is gone. I don't know why they closed it even for pedestrians.
https://www.kentonlibrary.org/genphotos/viewimage.php?i=di76666 - 1994
South on Grandview Avenue in Newport, before it was ruined by development.
https://goo.gl/maps/zSps54KZpnJ2 - 2009
I blew several chances to get my own photo of this, and I felt like bawling when I discovered this sign was gone. Imagine my thrill when I found out Google got it! This is the top of Lincoln Road on the border of Fort Thomas and Dayton - where Fort Thomas Avenue becomes Dayton Pike. The sign blade is a Fort Thomas style that they stopped posting in the late 1970s. It may have been the last surviving sign of this style in the area. The truck limit sign below it is old too, and I can tell by the font it's a Dayton sign. I think the reason the sign blade lasted so long was that it wasn't clear what city it was in, so neither city replaced it quickly.
https://goo.gl/maps/A8bdtvQgKAN2 - 2009
This is the style of sign blade that Fort Thomas began using in the late 1970s. This specimen is probably that old, but it's gone now. I bet that it too was the last surviving example.
https://goo.gl/maps/RpKwiDmGNBP2 - 2012
Highland Heights! My hometown! This is north on what I call the IGA Viaduct - the high US 27 bridge over I-275. I'm pretty sure the BRIDGES FREEZE BEFORE ROADWAY sign is the exact same one that had stood since the span opened in the mid-1970s. It too is gone now.
https://goo.gl/maps/h6DKURh7DnD2 - 2013
I was absolutely floored to find this in a 2013 photo! Back in 1987, we went on a family vacation to Iowa. I remember going through Maquoketa, IA, and seeing this old (probably 1950s era) cutout for a "city route" of IA 61 - actually an old routing of US 61. I thought there'd be zero chance this sign would still be standing in 2013, but imagine my surprise when I found it on Google!