Up for sale today is this Pattiway, Soda Lake, Simmler guide sign. Made to the exact standards as used around 1935 by the Auto Club of Southern California. This guide sign was posted around the New Cuyama area - both referenced towns are now gone; and in fact Pattiway doesn't resolve to anywhere at all on modern maps.
The original of this guide sign, complete with the logo of the Automobile Club of Southern California, would cost many thousands of dollars - if it even survives! Only historic photos of it are known. This is a faithful remake to just one-half the correct size in each dimension: 20 x 12 inches instead of 40 x 24. It is manufactured on heavy steel with the correct layout, fonts and colors. It weighs about 6 pounds, 2 ounces. It is a high quality, heavy steel sign. Accept no imitations that may be one-third this price, but are one-tenth the quality. No cheap tin to be found here, with the wrong fonts, layouts, size, shape, or any other manner of embarrassing imperfection. This one will make even the most discerning collector stick their nose into the sign, as it looks that good from that close!
Would you like a number not seen here? Or perhaps a different style? I can of course make these signs with any city name of your choice, and not just this style, but older and newer ones, and even the classic mileage, direction, and route shield signs from the era. Anything you would like, made with unsurpassed quality right here in the good old US of A.
Figure about 8 pounds for shipping, packed with care and mailed from zip code 61833.