Signs directing motorists through the city will be placed on Charlotte streets by the Standard Oil Company under the auspices of the Charlotte Automotive Trades Association. Road signs, designating directions and distances between Charlotte and other cities, also will be placed under direction of the association on highways of the county.
Permission to place the signs in the city was given the association Monday by the board of commissioners. The county highway commission recently approved the proposal of placing signs in the county.
The guide posts to be placed on city streets are enameled panels set between two-inch steel pipes. The pipes will be set in concrete. Their purpose will be to direct the tourist on the streets leading out of Charlotte to main highways. The county highway signs will be the regular four-feet square sign of the Standard Oil Company.
H.D. Horton is in charge of arrangements being made by the automobile association for placing the signs. He said guide posts of this character are badly needed in Charlotte. Most other cities have them. It is difficult for a tourist to find his way out of the city undirected, Mr. Horton said.
From The Charlotte News, Monday, Sept. 19, 1921
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