Meadville Pennsylvania and Amara Geffen's collaborative Art and Environment Initiative are making cool art from old signs

 These are pieces of a very long artwork you can scroll across here http://ceed.allegheny.edu/A&EI/read.html

Thanks to Jim for these photos!

Unusual rail road crossing sign, ever see one that says "Look out for the cars" ?

1939 photo above, below is one of the traffic signal towers I've been posting, it's from a 1918 photo

photos from http://www.shorpy.com/

More unusual stuff from the HAMB thread "Vintage shots from days gone by"

Annette on a scooter

Amelia Earhart with the scooter

General Eisenhower chats with Omar Bradley leaning against his '41 Clipper staff car

The outback mailman, on an enormous rig http://aso.gov.au/titles/documentaries/last-mail-birdsville/clip1/

Aerodynamic trucks and trailers

looks like a street car getting relocated

Sept 1949 Popular mechanics

Not sure what the above vehicle is

Kaiser factory that made aircraft

Ever see any racing Hudson Terraplanes before

What a great steering wheel, look slike it'a at a car show (from the I.D. board in the window)