Ghost Sign

In an otherwise empty lot down some quiet back street in some town in the Alberta Badlands, remains of an old sign speaking of a business that was once stood here. We’ve driven passed it more times than we can count, oblivious it was there and only on taking a walk one day did we up and take notice. How in the world did we miss this? It’s right under our noses!

So what do we have here? Remains a store perhaps? The shape suggests so – think it held a Coke sign – as does the location, here in what was the modest business centre of a (once) small coal mining community long since annexed by a neighbouring town. Info is nonexistent or spotty at best, but it appears a store/gas station did operate in this community at least up to the 1960s, perhaps a tad later, and maybe this sign was theirs. It all fits. Maybe a local knows?

And what’s that on ground there not far away? It’s “Homersaurus”. This is the Badlands and Dinos are a thing. Doh!

The corner store…
Lethbridge then and now – Berte, George’s, William’s Grocery.

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Date of adventure: April, 2018.
Location: Alberta Badlands.

Remains of an old store?

And Homersaurus?