ABC’s of the Prairie
With little competition for attention, still, signs on the prairie need to be large to compete with the scale of endless flat land and full sky.
But when it comes to irony, nothing competes with this sign just a few miles outside the town I lived in. Without a sign telling us so, how would we ever have guessed that we were in a mountain time zone? Our surroundings certainly belied this assertion!!
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Whenever I think WE live in the middle of nowhere, I look at pictures like yours and realize we are actually living in metropolitan Gotham … relatively speaking. Totally love you signs and the scenery. Clearly, we need to take a nice vacation in South Dakota. It’s our kind of place.
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Not your politics, though, I bet.
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Wow. Love it. Mountain Time Zone.
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That time zone used to run right down the middle of our main street. We all went on Central Time because to have one town of 700 in two time zones would have been impossible. Since then, they moved the time zone change to just out of town.
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The road trips of old. As a kid we, we traveled Route 66. Different, yet still the same.
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Some of those signs are the same ones that were there 60 years ago! Repainted, I’m sure, and perhaps even replaced, but exactly the same artwork and wording. It was amazing to me–like going back in time. The next time I travel that route (this summer for a town reunion) I’m going to stop and visit all those old tourist attractions if my sister will comply!!
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Loved this. Reminded me of all those trips we took when I was growing up. How dad used to have to stop and get a picture at each new “Welcome To” sign!
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My sister and I always sang a song associated with the state when we entered…”Take Me Back to the Black Hills” for South Dakota, “Ragtime Cowboy Joe” for Wyoming, “California Here We Come” for CA. “Yellow Rose of Texas,” “Oklahoma,” etc.
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I live in the Mountain Time Zone, but we do have the Sandia Mountains 20 minutes to the east. End of the Rockies, some say. Sandia is Spanish for Watermelon because they turn that color at sunset.
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I miss driving on highways with fun signs. Thanks
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Having lived for the last 38-39 years in Pacific time zone. Until recently moved to Vancouver Island. Where it doesn’t get anymore Pacific than that.
I lived for most of that time within a half hour’s drive of the Montain zone and Purcell mountains. The Purcell’s are every bit as magnificent as the Rocky mountains. You pas through both ranges to come out onto Canadian prairie zone. Where it is still Mountain time. Until Saskatchewan, where it is Central Time. Never really thought about the lack of either sea or mountain, as determination for a time zone. Yet the large signs out there, are as iconoclastic as the large skies. Cheers Jamie.
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