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Tue Jun 19 2012 10:51 AM
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Please refer to the attached image.
Two very large (5'x22') enameled steel circa 1950 street signs available. Stood near Lake Merritt in Oakland, California from 1950 until last year when they were removed for lake & road improvements. There are no plans to re-use them, so they will be trashed in no one is interested in them. Nominal expeditor's fee will apply.
Enameled steel street signs
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...those are great - I'm sure someone would want them...
Looking for better Gulf items: signs, globes, cans and paper - especially porcelain Gulf flanges, and Gulf A-38 & A-62 ad glass...
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Where's the California people!!??!?!?
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Pretty cool, I would like one, if it weren't four days driving time away
Still looking for that Union 76 ball And I collect big old porcelain neon signs
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those were the last two black porcelain guide signs in the state. it's sad they had to get taken down, but I hope someone can grab them before they are scrapped!
these signs are huge (about 20 feet by 6 feet each is my guess), so alas I do not have the means to grab them, but hopefully someone does.
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Im thinking the scrap value is more than the collectible value on these?? Sad but probally true.
see me at Mason Dixon Gas, Spring Carlisle M114-115, and Hershey C4E-35.
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I'm interested. "Sign of the Times", I sent you a PM. Click on the flashing envelope near the top of the screen under "My Stuff".
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On July 27th, collector Ron Cabanayan from San Jose drove up to Oakland and removed the signs, which saved them from the dump. The mindless Oakland DPW refused to allow any local press notification because they didn't want to be accused of giving away important examples of Oakland's automobile and road related past. They actually preferred that the signs be destroyed if they were going to end up looking bad.
Many thanks to Ron. The irony is that the signs may ultimately be publicly displayed in San Jose.
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Way to go Ron!!! Always nice seeing history preserved
Wanted: Husky Cans/Signs, Interesting Pump Plates and NC Road Signage Website www.petrojoe.com
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Still looking for that Union 76 ball And I collect big old porcelain neon signs
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