title: Crazy Sign Across The 100 Block of  Hubbard Street
date: 1933?
language: English
description: This picture shows a post-card of the sign. It also represents the
 original version of the picture of the Crazy Sign. A colorized version, by A.
 F. Weaver, may be found under the title [Crazy Sign].  It was constructed in
 1933 over East Hubbard Street, (later to become part of the Bankhead
 Highway--later still, US Highway 180) in the center of Mineral Wells.  It was
 quite a landmark as it was one of only two signs allowed by by the Texas
 Department of Transportation to span a highway maintained by the state
 agency.       
     The sign was torn down on December 24, 1958.  The choice
 of Christmas Eve was made, it was declared, because there would be a minimum
 of traffic on that day. The sign was later salvaged for
 scrap.                                                                                                                                               .    Information about the sign was taken, for the most part, from A.F. Weaver's "Time Was..." on page 30.
subject: Architecture - Landmarks
subject: Architecture
subject: Crazy Sign
coverage: United States - Texas - Palo Pinto County - Mineral Wells
coverage: Into Modern Times, 1939-Present
rights: Public
type: Photograph
format: Image
identifier: local-cont-no: AWO_1249P
identifier: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29964/
identifier: ark: ark:/67531/metapth29964