Behind the Sign

January 16, 2020

Tales from the Magic Skagit: The Rainforest Next Door

If you’d like a dose of rainforest within day trip distance, you need only travel about 20 miles east of I-5 — a mere eight miles west of Concrete — to find yourself surrounded by the verdant mystery of Rasar State Park. This is its story.

January 9, 2020

NW Autobody: A Story in Two Generations

At some level, all business stories are personal stories. This rings even truer when the business is a family business. The story of NW Autobody & Collision is the story of the Stanek Family -- a story two generations in the making.

January 1, 2020

Tales from the Magic Skagit: Crusin’ Chuckanut Drive

If the time honored tradition of the family "weekend drive" seems out of fashion, you might want to rekindle the passion with a cruise along 24 miles of some of the most enchanting scenery you're likely to find anywhere. We're talking Chuckanut Drive, friends and neighbors!

December 11, 2019

It’s More Than Fun to Stay at the (Skagit Valley Family) YMCA!

When we look back on our communal life in 2019, one of the high points of the year will undoubtedly be the opening of the new YMCA facility. It will certainly be a memorable experience for the organization’s executive director, Dean Snider.

November 21, 2019

Fly Like An Owl: Five Questions for SaviBank

As the only truly local bank in the Skagit Valley, SaviBank has been expanding rapidly. Meyer Sign & Advertising sat down with SaviBank CEO Mike […]

October 2, 2019

Still Crazy After All These Years

Meyer Sign & Advertising has installed a series of signs on the site of the Northern State Hospital. Read about its history, its future...and our connection with both.

September 10, 2019

Woolley Bully — A Love Story

We like to think of it as "the little town that could" -- although it's perhaps better known as the "Gateway to the North Cascades." However you like to think of it, there's plenty to love about Sedro-Woolley...and Meyer Sign & Advertising is proud to be a part of its future.

September 5, 2019

Day Eight: Legacy

In 1969 the terms "integrated circuit" or "computer chip" would have had no significance to most people. The Apollo program would change that...with lasting consequences for the world.

September 5, 2019

Day Seven: Farewell, Chris Kraft

Christopher Columbus Kraft passed away just two days after the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing -- an epic event that he played a major role in bringing about.

September 4, 2019

Day Six: Two Geeks Under 30 Who Saved the Apollo 11 Mission

33,500 feet from Apollo 11's historic lunar landing, the first program alarm went off in the broom closet-sized LEM. “It’s a twelve-oh-two,” Armstrong called out to Houston. The fate of the mission was suddenly in the hands of two guys barely out of college.

September 3, 2019

Day Five: Software, Bill Tindall, and the Little Old Ladies

Bill Tindall, a noted NASA engineer and manager, was responsible for herding an MIT department of high tech cats whose software development activities were poised to make or break the Apollo program.

September 3, 2019

Day Four: The Vindication of John C. Houbolt

Elton John may have been Rocket Man, but John C. Houbolt was Rendezvous Man. His persistent genius enabled the Apollo program to get a man on the Moon and back again with the smallest possible rocket.

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