Category Archives: License Plates

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 →

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 →

The first time I saw it, I did a double-take. It was a black muscle car with two white stripes across the center from front to back. On the back, instead of the standard Iowa license plate, was a white-on-black … Continue reading →

July 7, 2008: The US 52 bridge in Point Pleasant, Ohio, is the Grant Memorial Bridge, named for its most famous son. US 52 hugs the north bank of the Ohio River from Cincinnati to Huntington. Grant also lived in … Continue reading →

May 8, 2007: The now-departed Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in downtown Minneapolis, seen in a trip to Winnipeg and the Upper Midwest that incidentally included domed stadiums in four states. Haven’t done one of these in a while, but I … Continue reading →

No, not a cholesterol monitor, but before the first of the month I saw that the new system of license plates is in full effect and into the H’s. According to this story from WHO at the beginning of the … Continue reading →

A revised design for Iowa’s license plates is being phased in next month, the Des Moines Register reported last week. (I honestly forgot this was happening.) Eight counties running low on inventory will get them first. A photo with the story shows … Continue reading →

GTE used to be a household acronym in much of rural Iowa; it was the phone company. At the turn of the 21st century, GTE’s Iowa assets were sold to Iowa Network Services, which within a year turned into Iowa … Continue reading →

The Global Broadcasting Network sounds like one of those fictional news networks created for a TV show or movie, doesn’t it?

The DOT is finally going to look at a new license plate design. That’s…fine, I guess. Iowa ended up being on the front end of the light-blue-at-top-gradient-to-white style that spread across the country. IIRC, the design — the first not … Continue reading →