GEORGETOWN OH/MAYSVILLE KY
July 18 2022
PART 2
KY 11 at KY 9 (AA Highway) in Maysville.
The route markers at KY 9 & 1448 may be racked with sine rot.
KY 9 again. It appears as if this is a BBS that has faded to a BGS. It's hard to see here, but I could also tell that the words "State Resort Park" cover up what used to simply read "State Park."
US 68 at KY 3056.
Approaching the US 68 bridge back to Ohio. US 68 has a freeway-style interchange to KY 8.
Getting on the bridge.
From the bridge, looking up the river towards Maysville.
"Find it here." Find what here? An authoritarian governor?
This is where the US 68 bridge loops over US 52/62 in Aberdeen.
How come there used to be all these ads on barns telling people to chew tobacco, but never bubble gum? This is US 52/62/68 near Aberdeen.
Back at the Pepsi helmet hair in Ripley.
The aging SIGNAL AHEAD sign looks like it's for a traffic light whose green lens is replaced with red. This is also in Ripley.
US 52 loses US 62/68 in Ripley.
Second Street branches off on the right. The road leads to the John Rankin House, one of the original stops on the Underground Railroad.
Presumably US 52, but I can't find anything on Google Street View that resembles this.
This has to be US 52 near Chilo, but again, I couldn't find this on Street View.
US 52 meets our old friend OH 222 in Chilo.
US 52 goes under this bit of Big Energy biperoony near Moscow.
US 52 at Point Pleasant Spur.
US 52 blasts a divided highway through New Richmond - replete with a decaying speed limit sign. The road at right is labeled as old US 52 on most maps.
I don't know why I remember this, but there was one time when I was 11 or 12, we went out here and I heard "Eat It" by "Weird Al" Yankovic on the car radio and the record skipped. This was a different time from when we went to Maysville. This is US 52 near the now-retired Walter C. Beckjord Generating Station. First commissioned in 1952, all units of this power plant were decommissioned by 2014. The plant was fired by coal and oil. Duke Energy pleaded guilty in federal court to spilling 9,000 gallons of diesel into the Ohio River in 2014 and was fined $1 million. Demolition of a large smokestack in 2021 left debris in the river for months. Up ahead, a road for the power plant goes over US 52.
As my final assault in this photo shoot, this is on the baby freeway built for US 52 at I-275. I got this because the I-71 shield on that BGS is completely faded. This stretch was built in probably the early 1970s.