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Ocean to Ocean Highway sign.
Up for sale today is this National Old Trails Road Ocean to Ocean Highway sign. Made to the exact standards as used around 1928-29 by the Auto Club of Southern California. This is the smaller (15 inch) variant with the two colors. The highway was established in 1914, formed by the union of the National Road, the Santa Fe Trail, the Trail of the Padres and a handful of other roads from New York to Los Angeles. The segment from Santa Fe, New Mexico to its western terminus later became US Route 66 in 1926. The two-color variant was used in California as a reassurance marker to go with a US-66 sign when 66 was signed in the state starting in 1928.
An original of these, complete with the logo of the Automobile Club of Southern California, would cost many thousands of dollars if it ever came to the market.
This is a high quality, heavy steel sign. Accept no imitations that may be one-third this price, but are one-tenth the quality. No cheap tin to be found here, with the wrong fonts, layouts, size, shape, or any other manner of embarrassing imperfection. This one will make even the most discerning collector stick their nose into the sign, as it looks that good from that close!
Would you like a number not seen here? Or perhaps a different style? I can of course make these signs with any city name of your choice, and not just this style, but older and newer ones, and even the classic mileage, direction, and route shield signs from the era. Anything you would like, made with unsurpassed quality right here in the good old US of A.
Figure about 7 pounds for shipping, packed with care and mailed from zip code 61833.
Thank you for your purchase!