Abbey Road Studios Opened for Film Festival

The recording studio that the Beatles made famous and is marked by a well loved road sign was open to the public for a film festival.

Road Sign's Unintended Effects

This guy tried to use humor when asking people not to stop in his driveway, and all he got was more people stopping.

Street Sign Hints at History Lesson

Those who live on Daniel Shays Road share a bond with an important piece of American history.

Sad Street Sign News

This is perhaps the saddest news I've seen involving a street sign. The torment he'll live with the rest of his life is unfathomable. I'm glad he'll be comforted instead of locked up.

Real Traffic Sign Look Alikes

Yes, there is nothing like making an advertising sign look like a real traffic sign. Seems perfectly safe to me.

Street Name Dispute (or Row)

No matter how much I read about the naming of streets, I'm still amazed at how much of an honor it is and how excited people get about it. This is a truly bizarre story.

How High Can You Go? Road Signs Reach for the Heavens

Interesting article about photographer who erased poles from those fast food road signs that tower above everything else in sight.

Marine Honored

I've noticed several articles lately where people's lives are honored one way, such as adding to a memorial, but that family is given a street sign. If you step back and look at this, does it make sense? I would understand if they were renaming a street for him and gave the family a street sign and I would understand if they gave them a replica of the memorial or a framed photo.

My Take: Good Intention, Bad Name

Take a right when you get to Heroes of Operation Iraqi Freedom Way. Yeah, I would never tell someone that. This is part of the effort we have to rename streets to honor people without actually renaming the street.

Inventor of First Traffic Signal to enter Inventors Hall of Fame

You may curse the string of traffic lights, but its better than riding in a horse-drawn carriage and getting broadsided by a car. You'll have to read the article.

Do We Not Have Enough Streets to Name?

This always amazes me. Why try to rename the street that already has two names? Aren't there any in this town that only have one?

A Street Naming System

It pays to have a system for naming streets. There are problems, however, when streets are accidentally renamed. To me, the problem isn't that the records differ, its that nobody knows who Thorn was! Or at least they don't say in this article.

Bob "Dylan Drive": Who is more honored, Dylan or the town?

Its an honor to have your name on a street sign, except when its the place that didn't really appreciate you when you were there, but named a festival after you once you were famous. They're not grabbing on to Dylan's coat-tail are they?

Street Signs: Public Memory in the Making

A beautiful photo from Budapest, Hungary in the mid-90's.

Martin Luther King Boulevard

Its amazing how much controversy MLK Jr. still causes. This is a sign of change and a sign that more is desperately needed.

Road Signs Honoring Victims of Drunk Driver, Police Shooting

These street signs are serving a very different purpose. They are meant to remind people that "change is needed." They are also meant to help grieving parents, families, etc. I guess that is the same as the previous article.

Who is keeping track of street sign names?

Stories like this remind me that we are recording history every time an article like this is printed. I would love to know where streets in my neighborhood got their names. Doesn't it give a neighborhood a different feel to know some of that history?

More street signs in honor of those lost.

Graffitti Proof Traffic Signs

I think the graphitti proof wall from Naked Gun is a little more creative, but this is a good idea nonetheless.

Turkish Make Own Sign Poles

I can see making your own poles. Not a complicated design and don't need to be uniform, other than height. I am glad, however, that they didn't decide to paint their own signs.

Road Sign Exorcism

I've posted about this before, but I just have to report when you know who gets in our heads. Or maybe it was a typo.

Road Signs and Place Names Become Generic

What makes us want place names and road signs to be more generic? Maybe I'm just sentimental.

Here's another great article about place names in Concord, NH.

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