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PUBLISHED 5/1/08 --- Bakersfield’s new monument-style entry signs, situated on Highway 99 at the north and south ends of the city, were officially dedicated Wednesday afternoon. Too bad city officials couldn’t have moved up the ceremony a few Wednesdays earlier. Say, 100 Wednesdays earlier. Yes, the old, gray monument signs were that hideous. An architect might refer to the old design as Late-’70’s Warehouse — nondescript, bland and utterly lacking warmth or humanity. How the old design ever passed aesthetic muster is beyond explanation. But enough about past mistakes. The new-look signs are everything the old ones weren’t. Hospitable, cheery, inviting. One sign greets freeway traffic entering Bakersfield from the south at McKee Road. (That’s where Wednesday’s special ribbon-cutting ceremony was held.) The other sign greets freeway traffic entering the city from the north at Snow Road (although the sign will eventually move...
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