Courtesy Jeremy Lance, showing that even today, Iowa prefers 2-digit width shields and wooden posts.

Many other photos from this state, including the two below, are historical photos from the 1970's and 1980's courtesy Michael Summa.

I-29         I-80         I-380, US 218, and IA 27         Pottawattamie County M47


Brady St. at Kimberly Rd., US 61 SB in Davenport in 1976. Even back in the days when signs were pretty, the arrows weren't always quite right.


Dualization ends just north of I-80 Exit 182, taken in 1976. Development has pushed north a bit from I-80, and dualization may have been pushed further north as well.

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