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The "old style" street signs
johnny g:
Happened to be going down So Prospect earlier today, here is an example of the street signs I had mentioned in another thread. Curious as to why this particular one was never updated...
irons35:
shhh....
Long Ago:
Thanks for posting these photos, johnny g. Brings back a lot of memories for me, as I grew up in this vicinity of Hackensack.
When I was quite young, the stretch of road between Essex St. and Standish Ave. used to be called just Prospect Ave. If I’m recalling correctly, the road was renamed “S. Prospect Ave” probably sometime in the early 1950s. I remember when the name change happened, as we had an elderly neighbor who was griping about having to change his mailing address.
New street signs were then installed to reflect the name change. From the weathered condition of the street sign in your photos, it seems possible that it is the original street sign from that era.
johnny g:
I'm curious as to why this one was never changed....like I had written in a different post there was one on Vreeland and Jackson that was also in this style, but eventually was changed....I wonder how many more around town there are and what the significance of these are, in regards to keeping them rather than updating. I wish I had a Hudson St one in the old style hanging in my house, as a reminder haha
Chief Oratam:
Before one day it just disappears.....
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