"Welcome to Detroit" signs?

**Detroitnerd** · July-21-09, 01:12 PM

This may be a dumb question, but are there any "Welcome to Detroit" signs? I was idly thinking about it, but couldn't recall any -- certainly not any like the signs you see in Dearborn or Ferndale. Seems like when I'm leaving the city, I always see those END DETROIT SPEED CONTROL signs, but not much the other way. Any help?

**Bong-Man** · July-21-09, 01:21 PM

I thought I saw a bullet-riddled one on Eastbound I-94 by the airport, back when the Super Bowl was here.

**ggores** · July-21-09, 01:48 PM

sticking up from a bunch of overgrown grass and weeds there is such a sign somewhere around jeffries and virgil street, on the freeway embankment, on the detroit/redford border. pretty sure it even says "welcome to". it's really something. it is impressive. ah yes, detroit-style.

**iheartthed** · July-21-09, 02:00 PM

Must be an east side thing. There aren't a lack of them on the west side.

**mpow** · July-21-09, 02:02 PM

Here is one:

http://atom.smasher.org/highway/?l1=...n+Around+&l4=+

**pffft** · July-21-09, 02:49 PM

There is one on the southbound I-75 service drive just below 8 Mile ...it just says "Detroit est. 1701" I believe...

**Funaho** · July-21-09, 02:52 PM

Originally Posted by mpow

Here is one:

http://atom.smasher.org/highway/?l1=...n+Around+&l4=+

Nice

reminds me of this video, which I saw on Tosh.0 last week:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZzgAjjuqZM

Make sure to watch to the end

**Detroit Stylin** · July-21-09, 07:30 PM

Thered is also one on SB Woodward and 8 Mile that says: Welcome to Detroit "The Rennaissance City" Founded 1701

**313WX** · July-21-09, 07:31 PM

Originally Posted by iheartthed

Must be an east side thing. There aren't a lack of them on the west side.

There's one on 8 Mile/Gratiot, next to the DD/BR. I also recall seeing one on 8 Mile/Van Dyke and 8 Mile/Kelly.

Come to think of it, there pretty much at the foot of all borders on the east side [[except maybe Mack, Charlevoix, Kercheval and Jefferson).

Perhaps you need to look harder.

**pffft** · July-21-09, 08:13 PM

Originally Posted by Detroit Stylin

Thered is also one on SB Woodward and 8 Mile that says: Welcome to Detroit "The Rennaissance City" Founded 1701

That's it, that's what the one on the Chrysler service drive just south of 8 Mile looks like.

**HazenPingree** · July-21-09, 08:25 PM

I believe there is one on Cadieux, visible when going North from Grosse Pointe.
www.AndrewLinnForDetroit.com

Retroit · July-22-09, 12:59 PM

Originally Posted by Bong-Man

I thought I saw a bullet-riddled one on Eastbound I-94 by the airport, back when the Super Bowl was here.

There is one just within the city border on I-94 that says "Welcome to Detroit" with a separate sign below it that says "Home of Super Bowl XL" [[as if telling a visitor to Detroit that the Super Bowl was once held here is going to positively influence their visit!