In Memoriam

Well the original The Great International Highway Makeover webpage is no longer with us; it was a webpage of RV Droz's US-Highways.com website, which has since been taken down.

If any of the contributors to the old TGIHMO wishes to have their Route Marker Designs up on the internet again, please let me know in the comments section or by emailing me at: ed_miessner@yahoo.com, and please use the banner, "Route Marker Design". (Otherwise I night delete it as junk email, which I get a lot of.)

Thanks!

New New Mexico Route Marker!

No, it's not for real (yet) but it's my latest design for route markers we'd like to see in that state.

The size of the sign is 36" wide by 30" high with 12" high numerals and a 9" high/wide Zuni.

Out-of-State Plates 61

CAN - PEI

Provincial registration plate from 1972.

It's been very long.

I've had real life problems to solve (more over at my sister blog, Fin Des Voies Rapides (If Peak Oil Is No Object) here on Blogger) and I've also been working on a new highway route marker design for New Mexico, based on their turquoise registration plate. The ones so foar I've grown to hate. Posting soon!

Out-of-State Plates 60

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.

Out-of-State Plates 59.

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.