Rollsign Gallery - Chicago, Illinois

Rollsigns from Chicago, IL
Beverly Garage

The routes shown on this front rollsign are from Chicago's far south side district. It is off a GMC
New Look that would have been built in the early to mid 1960's. This rollsign is unique in that it is
part linen and part mylar, with the newer mylar exposures inserted at random, as new routes
and branches were introduced. The sign has no printed date. It has 63 exposures total.

The image of this sign was created from sequential photographs of the actual sign.

Exposures with an "L" beside it are linen (44 of the 63 exposures)

Exposures with an "M" beside it are mylar (19 of the 63 exposures)

The exposures with numbers that have a red slash through it indicate a "short turn"
for that route, turning back at a set location short of its normal final destination.

M →

L →

M →

L →

M →

L →

M →

L →

M →

L →

← L

← M

← L

← M

← L

← M

← L

← M

← L

← M

← L

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Beverly Garage, located at 1345 W. 103rd St. at the crossroads of S. Vincennes Ave and S. Beverly Blvd.,
originally opened on December 4, 1949 to serve Chicago's far south side. It was the first new garage
opened after the CTA was formed on October 1, 1947. Beverly Garage was smaller than the others at
the time, but unlike others, had full indoor vehicle storage. It was closed as a bus garage in June of 1988
when 103rd St. Garage opened, however is still used by the CTA for non revenue vehicles to this day.