Signpost Up Ahead, the East: A Pictorial Tour of Billboards, Neon, Road Signs and More (Roadside Illustrated)

For anyone who's ever found their way using a road sign, bought something advertised on a billboard, or played the "Alphabet Game" on a road trip! Signpost Up Ahead, the East is the the companion volume to Stephen H. Provost's pictorial tour of road signs, billboards, neon signs, and other messages by the side of the road. Featuring hundreds of historical and contemporary photos of iconic and familiar signs from east of the Mississippi River, it includes everything from century-old barn signs on rural routes to scaffolded signs on high-rises at the center of major cities. This book is intended to capture as much of our roadside history a s possible by including a representative sample of signage across seven categories. The author invites you on a scenic and historical journey through city streets, down rural byways, up the coast, across the plains, and through the mountains. You'll traverse these roads as they once appeared, and as they appear today, including such famed highways as the Blue Ridge Parkway, Lincoln Highway, and Cumberland Road. This third book in the Roadside Illustrated series will show you signs that tell you how to get from here to there, signs that flash across Times Square, signs with clowns and bucking broncos. You'll see speed limit signs, motel signs, railroad crossing signs, and service station signs. Readers of the first volume, "Signpost Up Ahead, the West," will discover the roads of the East are vastly different from those in the far-flung western roadways, but also that they're no less fascinating and just as beautiful.
ASIN: 1949971368
VSKU: BVV.1949971368.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Provost, Stephen H.
Binding: Paperback