May 14 – On this day in Montana
history in 1910 the Daily Inter Lake had a front page headline, “Electric Signs
Invade Kalispell.” “Most of the largest
business houses have at this time adopted one form or another of the great
variety of electric lighting devices with which to attract the eye,” the paper
said. It also claimed the largest
electric sign in Montana was above the Kalispell Brewery “the letters being
four feet high, the sign 65 feet long and the number of lights used in it 258.”
The times were a’changin and apparently the light bulbs too.
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