Sept. 10, 1941: California gets ready to raise the speed limit to 55 mph and the Auto Club will be posting new signs. That’s right, the Auto Club posted highway signage.
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Man, I would love to have a few of those Auto Club signs in my collection. 55 was break neck speed for some cars on some roads then.
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@Sam: I thought of you when I posted that picture. Those signs are so big you could probably roof your house with them.
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Ran out of room in the garages so now I use a fence in the back yard for other than Auto Club signs. Now I have room. That 55 MPH is big.
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In the early to mid 1950s there was an auto club sign next to my elementary school – probably a pedestrian crossing. The school only dated from about 1948 so the auto was still putting up signs then. That just shows that outsourcing of some government functions has been around for quite a while.
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@Dick: The Auto Club was a pioneer in marking highways, back to the early 1900s, when cars were the new thing.
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