I was loitering in Bayonne the other day and noticed, even as its streetlamp luminaires are being replaced with one new model, imparting a strangling uniformity, its street signs remain delightfully disparate.
Some corners have brand-new vinyl signs, with Helvetica or Cleartype, those fonts of bureaucracy, while other ones, made of stamped and pressed metal with the street names in pleasant bas relief that go back to the 1940s or 1950s, are still hanging around.
Why not? They do the job they were made to do after yea so many decades.
10/4/12