I found this picture in the Flikr photostream of Raines, who says:
What happens when an innocuously-named-for-local-natural-features street in a college town area happens to match the name of a teenage heartthrob superstar musician? Clearly, it gets stolen a lot for adorning bedrooms/dorm rooms. The solution? Advanced protection.
Now, “advanced protection” or not, it can’t seriously be too much harder to unscrew the bolt holding the chain that it would be to unscrew the bolts holding the sign on — but I have to admit, the chain on the sign makes it look more secured. Kind of bad-ass, really.
I’ve often wanted a street sign with my name on it — “Grant Avenue” or “Grant Street” is a pretty common one, too — I’ve just never gone and done it. In his garden, my dad has a street sign, with the original pole, from the intersection where he grew up. I think he took it when the city was replacing old-style signs with newer ones. I’m not convinced that he actually asked, but he seems sure that they were just going to junk it.
I wonder if there’s a place you could buy them, and get them to say whatever you want on them? The ones my dad has feature embossed letters that are stamped out of the metal, but most newer ones just seem to have reflective white stickers on the reflective green surface. (Answer: yup!)
Grant Hamilton
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Juel