  Racinian Member Username: Racinian Post Number: 1 Registered: 11-2006 |
I collect used city street signs. Does anyone know where I might be able to get a couple of Detroit used street signs? I'm looking for main streets preferably. If anyone can help or has ideas, let me know. | ||
Ordinary Member Username: Ordinary Post Number: 66 Registered: 06-2006 |
I can remember an old Detroit street sign in my dad's garage. I can't recall what street it was from. The way my brothers used to do it was to get drunk and sneak around at night with some tools. | ||
Rjk Member Username: Rjk Post Number: 559 Registered: 11-2003 |
I think my father still has a street sign in his garage. When I was in high school I had a party at my house and it was given to me as a gift. Two things I remember about it is my friend showing up at my door saying, "Here, I brought you a gift, where's the beer?" And my father saying, "What the hell are we suppose to do with this?" For weeks after that my father thought the cops were going to be showing up at our front door. I'd say you could have it (Not a Det. sign), but my father would probably think it was part of a sting operation to recover a street sign that has been missing for twenty years. | ||
1953 Member Username: 1953 Post Number: 1115 Registered: 12-2004 |
Stealing street signs, great. Sheesh. | ||
Bearinabox Member Username: Bearinabox Post Number: 70 Registered: 04-2006 |
If you'd had this idea a year or two ago when they were replacing all the street signs... | ||
Jams Member Username: Jams Post Number: 4166 Registered: 10-2003 |
https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/5/85523.html?1161726460 | ||
Ordinary Member Username: Ordinary Post Number: 67 Registered: 06-2006 |
Rjk, Great post. 1953, That was many moons ago. | ||
220hendrie1910 Member Username: 220hendrie1910 Post Number: 47 Registered: 02-2006 |
Jams linked:
That link doesn't work for me... | ||
Nainrouge Member Username: Nainrouge Post Number: 97 Registered: 05-2006 |
There is an antique mall on Plymouth Rd. in Livonia. One of the booths sells old signs. The guy who owns the booth had a job replacing the signs so he didn't steal them. I can't remember the name of the antique mall, though. | ||
Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian Post Number: 304 Registered: 08-2006 |
There's a few good ones on Plymouth rd, one is Country.....peddler? something. One's near merriman, the other around passed Levan. Also don't forget to make the rounds of the antique places in Royal Oak. Too bad when they re did the carriage house bar no one was around to get those signs they had on the walls. Wonder what happened to them? | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4468 Registered: 11-2003 |
jjaba would love to have some of the old names like 12th St., Myrtle, Cherry, National, Six Mile, Five Mile, James Cousins, etc. Can you name other Detroit streets re-named? jjaba. | ||
Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian Post Number: 309 Registered: 08-2006 |
What was Martin Luther King Jr Blvd before? Myrtle Right? | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4470 Registered: 11-2003 |
Myrtle, yes. Fisher Service Drive by Comerica Park was Vernor Highway, AKA Ginger Ale Highway. jjaba, Westsider. | ||
Designut Member Username: Designut Post Number: 96 Registered: 05-2006 |
Cambrian - As Jjaba stated, you're correct - Google maps actually still has it listed as Myrtle St. - sort of odd, I thought. My 1923 map of Detroit shows that Myrtle ran from Michigan to Grand River And was interrupted at Grand River by a few oddly shaped city blocks before becoming Stimson (which ran to Woodward) (Message edited by Designut on November 14, 2006) |
