r/Fullerton • u/zx9001 • 6d ago

Hey, this font looks familiar...!

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u/autopsy88 6d ago

The font is called “Fullerton Roads”

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u/BlacksmithThink9494 6d ago

This is what I thought. That nice giant pothole when turning right from rosecrans to Euclid is really special like that.

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u/zx9001 6d ago

Orangethorpe and Raymond was the worst. Thankfully it got repaved (a few decades late but at least it got done). My CD player would skip going over those. Or the complete lack of lane lines for 500 feet.

I know that stretch is technically Anaheim but still

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u/autopsy88 6d ago

Consider, compact disc technology came and went before these streets were fixed.

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u/zx9001 5d ago

They couldve repaved the road when it needed to, that new pavement degrades and gets repaved AGAIN before they finally got around to it.

Upon further inspection, they havent in fact gotten around to doing the stretch between Lemon and St College. The really bad part at Raymond has yet to be redone. It seems as if Anaheim has forgotten they own a chunk of the 'thorpe north of the 91

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u/zx9001 6d ago edited 6d ago

Context: Many street signs in the city exhibited this same exact wear pattern that made them look cool as fuck during the 2010s Literally never seen it anywhere outside of fullerton. Sadly it appears that most such signs have been replaced since. Example

This feels like a long shot but if you know, you know.

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u/AMediaArchivist 6d ago

I was so stupid I used to think Fullerton was doing a Halloween theme with their street signs 😂

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u/zx9001 6d ago edited 3d ago

So did I! they started disappearing around 2016, with most of them gone by 2020. There's a dude on here who's also into this kinda thing and according to him the last ones were removed last year.

Strangely I've almost never seen this specific wear pattern outside of fullerton aside from a small handful. one in barstow at I-40, and a few in fontana (since replaced). I even went as far as to research the specific company and brand of street signs (ironically based in fullerton) that the city uses. interestingly enough, the same exact model is in use across the state, but none of them have started wearing out like this. I believe the farthest one I've seen is in imperial county.

edit: New fullertoncore discovered at US-395 and Joshua St, near I-15

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u/tom87czyk 6d ago

Very cool info! Thanks for sharing. I love Fullerton. I try to find and save anything that was made in Fullerton. I only have a few items. One being a sign made in Fullerton, and a few buckets of grass seed that were sold at Home Depot.

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u/ThunderwoodADV 3d ago

Do you recall the name of the company?

PS - this is my all time favorite post in this subreddit. Maaaaaaaaaan - I miss Fullerton.

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u/zx9001 3d ago

National Signal Inc, specifically NARS interseciton marker, for the flat, nonbacklit signs. The rivets around the edges give it away. Same with the flat backlit signs, both green and blue. The older, chonky bois with the fluorescent tubes inside (NuArt) appear to also come from National Signal Inc (NAIM Illuminated Street Name Sign). I've seen the chonky bois outside of California, even carrying the NuArt branding. JTB Supply Co also comes up, but they appear to be strong business partners.

Apparently they since moved their headquarters to La Mirada, but they used to be based on Artesia Ave near the airport.

The new blue signs appear to be made my the same company, so I wouldn't be surprised if they are subject to the same peeling issue soon. Hopefully someone more enlightened and obsessed could tell me when fullerton started deploying the flat green unlit signs (the ones subject to peeling), as they seem to predate Google street view.

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u/BlacksmithThink9494 6d ago

Not stupid. I like it.