NORTH End: Stop sign/T intersection, IA 3, Delaware County
Facing north on 38 (2002)
Photo by Jason Hancock
That "End" sign vanished in the next six and a half years:
Facing north on 38 (2008)
Facing north on 38
Photo by Jason Hancock
One way to save money - use the rural double arrow as the highway double arrow.
Facing east on 3
Photo by Jason Hancock
Facing east on 3, before and after the LGS
Facing west on 3
Lots of 3's at this intersection.
Facing west on 3
Old SOUTH End: Stoplight, US 61, Muscatine, Muscatine County
Prior to the 61 bypass around Muscatine, 38 ended approximately where 61 meets the north end of Business 61 today. Back then, 61 came north and then turned east; continuing north would start on 38. In the downtown area in the late '70s and early '80s there was one duplex (61/IA 22) and one small triplex (61/IA 22/IA 92) - before 1969, IA 38 DID come south to its present end. With the completion of the bypass and establishment of the business route, 22 was rerouted and 38 extended. Now Business 61 is never without at least one state highway. See these two maps for before-and-after-1986 routes in Muscatine. In the below pictures, the bypass road west of 38 did not exist when 38 ended at or near this intersection. Clockwise from top:
Facing south on 38
Facing south on 38
This pole could have been the "End 38".
Facing south on 38
Facing west, but heading south, on 61
Facing west, but heading south, on 61
Facing north on 38/Business 61 (was 61), but heading west on 22
Take away the left sign and you have a setup from before 1986. After the stoplight would be the beginning of 38.
Facing north on 38/Business 61 (was 61), but heading west on 22
Photo by Jason Hancock
Facing north on 38, but heading west on 22
Facing east on 22, but heading north on 61
Facing east on 22, but heading north on 61
Facing east on 22, but heading north on 61
SOUTH End: Stoplight, IA 92, Muscatine, Muscatine County
Facing southwest, but heading south, on 38 / Closeup
Left photo by Jason Hancock
This is in downtown Muscatine as 92 crosses from Illinois and intersects Business US 61.
Facing south on 38
Left photo by Jason Hancock
Facing southeast
This is the Norbert Beckey Bridge into Illinois. Once it crosses the bridge, it becomes IL 92. The car is turning from IA 92 onto IA 38.
Facing northwest, but heading west, on 92
Facing northwest, but heading west, on 92
This is the second westbound 92 shield in Iowa; the first is in the background of the above photo.
Facing northeast, but heading east, on 92
The first town on IL 92 is Illinois City, but it wouldn't be illogical to point to Rock Island instead since that's where 92 is going. It heads almost due east to the Quad Cities from here.
Facing northeast, but heading east, on 92
Pictures by Jason Hancock: First-third, 18th, and 20th, 1/26/02; twelfth, 6/19/03
Pictures by me: Second, third, and sixth-ninth, 9/2/08; tenth-16th, 8/31/07; 19th-23rd, 25th, and 27th-33rd, 10/13/06
Page created 4/27/02; last updated 12/31/08
