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CAN - PEI

Provincial registration plate from 1972.

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USA - SD

Two plates for real, this time. :^)

USA - TX

White Lone Star.

 

 

This plate style for some reason reminds me of a joke in a stand-up routine from Second City TV's idea of a communist TV station called 3CP-1, that "broadcast" to the US by "hijacking" 2CTV's signal. The routine was a guy slapping countries sized to the same scale of the USSR and insulting those countries' citizens. Among these he included Texas, with the line, "You Texans, you think you are so big." And slapping Texas onto the map, he shouts, "HA! You are but LONE STAR in Galaxy of Mother Russia!"

 

Still (((( x^D )))) funny unto this very day.

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New Plates:

MT Montana

New design -- state outline recedes in the background.

Typeface is still not the most legible.

 

 

VA - Virginia.

 

VERY old Virginia license plate from before

the switchover to "Times New Roman"-like typeface.

 

"Heritage" plate with a Cardinal, the state bird, on

a dogwood branch bearing the state flower.

 

 

Louisiana Plates.



 

I'll be adding to this as time goes on...

 

 

An old plate from way back.

Note the "Sportsman's Paradise" is stamped, not silkscreened.

 

 

"Sportsman's Paradise" again.

Silkscreened this time -- newer plates with the "Jazzy" state name. 

 

"Sportsman's Paradise" with the pelican.

These appeared when Kathleen Blanco was governor.

 

 

1803 - 2003: Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial.

 

 



1812 - 2012: 200 Years as a state.

 

 

1815 - 2015: Battle of New Orleans Bicentennial.

I hate the state name typeface. Very amateur.

 

 

Now if US states' license plates were like European countries',

this is what Louisiana's would look like.

 

Protect the Environment legacy plate.

It should be the regular plate!

 

Tow truck plates.

 

Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana plate.

 

 

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FL - Florida

Imagine Florida: tacky!!!

(Pun intended)

WV - West Virginia

Regular numbered plate in good condition.

WY - Wyoming

Sample off the web.

 

February 2nd, 2014:

And now a real one has been found!

The typeface is different from the one in the sample.

And not as legible. We need federal standards!

 

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Today: British Columbia and US Virgin Islands.

BC - British Columbia. Canada-on-the-Pacific.

Simple and direct. And legible.

 

VI - US Virgin Islands. "American Paradise."

 

Something tells me these boats and fish shouldn't be here.

 

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WS

Today's State is Wisconsin. Cheese and Beer!

 

Simple and legible.

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WVa

Today's State is West Virginia (<i>take me hoooome... country rooooads...</i>)

See, they can fit eight digits on a standard size US plate.

And keep it legible, too!

Why not other states like Texas and Iowa???

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WA

Today... Washington State. The only US state where the state highway route marker resembles nothing so much as an impaled head.

Now the plates.

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MD

Today... another plate from Maryland.

Maryland farms specialty plate.

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Today, we have three places: two US states and a Caribbean Isle.

ARU - Aruba.

This plate was found in JW's Burger Bar, 17 The New Driftway, Scituate, Mass.

 

 

MI - Michigan

 

 

More Pure Michigan - this is a US Olympic team vanity plate.

NH - New Hampshire

The old "Man of the Mountain" memorial plate.

It's now the regular NH license plate.

Live free or die!



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VT

Today is Vermont: the Green Mountain State. The plates are no-nonsense green plates with white legend.

Someone bought the vehicle in Louisiana, registered it in Vermont.

(S)he keeps it in New Orleans!!!!!

This one is a little more discreet.

This one's not an official plate, but it looks like it could be one.

An older-style vanity plate, that is!

 

 

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VA

Today, Virginia. The Old Dominion.

A vanity plate, in the old style.

Old style, regular alpha-numerical sequence.

Newer style, vanity plate.

Newer style, another vanity plate. 

"Friends of the Chesapeake" legacy plate.

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Today's State: Utah: the Beehive State.

Otherwise known as "Deseret".

These two feature the natural arch at  Moab, Arches National Park.

Very pretty design. Good color contrast for legibility, too. 

 

This is an earlier motif to promote skiing.

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Today, is Texas. The Lone Star State.

First the old style. Despite the busywork around the perimeter, the plates are quite legible.

 

 

And now the new styles. The typeface for the plate number I think is horrible. You can't read it at a safe following distance along the expressway!

 

 

First, the plain black and white plates.

The number and letters are all smushed.

 

And now the fancy "Lone Star State" motif.

I think the old version is better.

 

And now specialty plates - Disabled Veterans.

And "Keep Texas Wild" plate.