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Category Archives: License Plates
May
05
License Plate Letters — KMA
KMA 960 AM is one of Iowa’s oldest radio stations. Its call letters, chosen specifically by the May Seed & Nursery Co., mean “Keep Millions Advised.” The May family owned the station from its beginning in 1925 until 2019. Here … Continue reading
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Mar
30
License Plate Letters — KKJ
Let’s just skip a couple notches ahead, ‘k?
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Mar
03
Why does ‘Nomadland’ use old license plates?
In the embedded tweet is a poster for the streaming movie Nomadland. It should take about five seconds to see where I’m going with this post. The states are ordered by their admission to the Union, which is a neat thing … Continue reading
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Nov
09
License Plate Letters – KAT
August 16, 2000: Shadow had the run of the corn crib — run of the farm, really — and we threw her kibble from a big bag bought at the elevator. She purred very loudly and enjoyed climbing onto my shoulder … Continue reading
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Sep
08
Yup, we’re getting another license plate variety
The Daily Nonpareil in Council Bluffs, citing a state representative and Pottawattamie County treasurer, reports that the “Flying Our Colors” license plate will be available to the public starting in the middle of this month. This is one of the … Continue reading
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Jan
24
Legislature tries to circumvent will of the voters
OH COME ON. Of all the things that Iowans can’t find agreement on, “license plates” probably wasn’t on the list a decade ago. In 2017, the state offered voters three choices for a new license plate. A reworked version of … Continue reading
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Jan
02
License Plate Letters — JAJ
Iowa entered the J series of license plates before 2019 ended. Of course, it was a blackout plate, because as this early December story from the Marshalltown Times-Republican shows, a lot of Iowans really, really, really hate the standard license … Continue reading
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Sep
24
License Plate Letters — ISV
How, exactly, is the state dividing alphanumeric allocations of blackout vs. standard plates? The newest ones I’ve seen — IQ’s, IR’s, and IS’s — have all been blackout. A Register article about the popularity of the plates said the design … Continue reading
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Sep
11
Iowans really, really hate the current license plate
A couple of days after I was seeing “blackout” style license plates showing up in regular alphanumeric sequence, WHO had a story about expansion of the program. The blackout plates rolled out on July 1st, and Lowe said just a … Continue reading
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Jun
14
License Plate Letters — IAM, IBE, ICP, IDK
Reader Dan Drackley and I both spotted the “I” series of license plates appearing in the same week of April, but it’s just now that I have an open post spot. As you can see from the combinations above, there’s … Continue reading
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