A picture I took in downtown Manhattan a few years ago. The sidewalks nearby were covered in arrows that led there.

The thing that really got me was the key was on the lock, like an invitation.

The Old Navy at the Town Center at Aurora looks like that inside.

How old is it?

...it does. It really does.

Ok, today's photos.

A strange center left-turn lane sign, with undersized arrows and a nonstandard typeface.

For comparison, a more standard one, along the same road.

This one was poorly lit, so I decided to play with GIMP's effects on it.

Some from Main Street (US 40) near/in Reynoldsburg:

A sign prohibiting trucks form using Noe-Bixby Road. Despite the orange color, this restriction is permanent and the sign has been there several years.

Some button copy where Main Street passes over I-270.

I felt like taking this picture. I don't know why, there's nothing particularly interesting in it.

For reasons unknown to me, all the traffic lights on Main Street in Reynoldsburg are numbered from west to east. Here are Traffic Light 1, Traffic Light 4, Traffic Light 8, and a blurry shot of Traffic Light 9. (I usually throw out the blurry ones, but 9 is the only light in that style)

I'm not actually sure what this sign refers to, but I found the typeface choice interesting.

Yeah. It stuck out to me because everything else about the sign (colors, retroreflectivity, design of the arrow) is MUTCD standard, except the typeface.

dat Caslon

"I'm not actually sure what this sign refers to, but I found the typeface choice interesting."

Interesting. I see that font on older signs in my town all the time.

Wow, you've got a lot of photos this time around.

Thoughts:

I notice Colorado (or Aurora, at least) uses red arrows in their left-turn signals. Ohio still uses red balls (with green and yellow arrows) accompanied by a "LEFT TURN SIGNAL" sign.

The Macy's directional sign has a blank slot, which isn't so odd, but for some reason the blank slot has an upward-pointing arrow next to it. I wondered if something had actually gone with it at some point.

The Pharmacy sign with the changeable letters makes me think of Captain Underpants and the way the boys would always rearrange letters like that to spell out toilet-humor messages.

I notice Safeway sidesteps the whole "15 items or less/fewer" grammarwank entirely by using "15 item limit" instead.

I had never even heard of Gordmans before now.

I like your King Soopers's decor better than the Kroger decor here. Though I notice the "Right Store. Right Price." tags are exactly the same as the ones used in Kroger stores.

Also: That store doesn't have doors. Weird.

(...Is that an ambulance parked outside?)

It's very blue and white.

Here are a few assorted ones from today:

"MOVE ACCIDENT VEHICLES FROM TRAVEL LANES" on Interstate 70.

Fort Rapids, and indoor waterpark and resort hotel, as seen from I-70. The tallest part of the hotel predates the waterpark by decades; it was previously a standalone Holiday Inn.

The Hamilton Road exit from I-70 westbound. Until a year or two ago there was a continuous right-turn ramp for traffic headed to Whitehall. This has since been removed; now right-turning traffic must go to the traffic light.

Signs for various businesses along Hamilton Road.

Signs for "Eastland Plaza", a small old strip mall located in front of Eastland Mall. The building in the background is Eastland Mall's vacant Lazarus/Macy's store. (There is an operating Macy's on the other side of the mall)

And finally, a handwritten sign taped to a malfunctioning Wendy's drive thru order box.

I like the Food Court/JCPenney sign, for some reason.

Commerce City has lots of them.

...now I remember being the only person on this one field trip who thought that the dog food plant didn't smell terrible.

I need to go find some pictures of industrial stuff.

I can't be bothered to actually go out and take pictures. I just Google search sometimes.

I didn't get many today because it's that time of year where even 4:30 in the afternoon is too dark for my camera to take pictures without blurring them. But anyways:

A "rural" Ohio road in December. "Rural" in quotes because this area is largely built up now.

This signal has probably been here since this really was a rural area. I don't think Franklin County uses these single-wire spans for new installations.

The street blades at that intersection. Note the additional sign pointing to "Headley Park"

The newer of two roundabouts near New Albany. These were built before there was a US standard for roundabout signage, so the Franklin County Engineer's Office just sorta made it up.

The street name signs posted within the roundabout.

Morse Road just south of New Albany.

The older of the two roundabouts, dating to the late 2000s. Before the roundabout was built this had been the most dangerous intersection in Franklin County.

Morse Road near Gahanna. This would be a cool view if that car weren't in the way.

An obvious former Circuit City, now a "Comfy Couch Co." store.

The first Wal-Mart in Columbus, opened in 1994 and expanded to a Supercenter around 2001.

COMBINATION PIZZA HUT AND TACO BELL

And finally, Morse Crossing, the main road into Easton Town Center. Christmas lights!

I immediately noticed the Neutraface in the Comfy Couch Co. logo, and why is the dot in "Co." under the "O"?

Oh wow, I saw a Rich gas station in one of those photos. They used to be all over the place in the Huntington area, but a quick check of Google Street View shows that most of 'em are gone now. Here's what's left of the one in Barboursville.

I imagine this Wal-Mart looks like the Wal-Mart nearest my house?

There's a part of the last photo that looks a bit like "Rose Lalonde" to me.

Also, the Wal-Mart Vision Center's logo and signage has ITC Stone Sans.

Wait, second-to-last.

I don't think I've ever seen a Walmart with the Futura signs. I did notice a big HP logo in one picture; they've been using Futura heavily at least since the Compaq merger and definitely since the "you+hp" campaign of a decade ago, so I can't help but think the two are related. :P