Photo Gallery Roadway Fixtures
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These corner streetsigns were the standard for postwar Manhattan,
until the late 60's, when more modern looking yellow and black
signs, with slightly bigger print, took over. These signs differed from their outerborough contemporaries, in that these had references to both the cross street and the street being crossed. The ancient white print on dark blue corner signs, that this sign's generation supplanted, also had references to both cross streets on each sign. Into the 70's one could still occassionally find surviving blue signs, but if any still exist, other than as decorations in bars, I'm not aware of them. Unfortunately, I never got a photograph of any. The sign in this photo was one of the few of it's kind to make it into the 80's, holding court like an old hippy on 6th Avenue, in the heart of Greenwich Village, where I shot it in 1982. It has since disappeared. |