Mentone, CA – Is this why I became a geologist?
2008 November 29
Source: Water tower in Mentone, CA
Photo by Dave Schumaker.
This past week, I was back home, spending the Thanksgiving holiday at my parent’s house. Incidentally enough, this is in the house that I grew up in my entire life. The house I grew up in is in the town of Mentone, California. It’s located in a very small, rural part of Southern California.
As I was driving through my old stomping grounds this weekend, and looking at some of the places I used to ride bikes to with my childhood friends, I couldn’t help but think, “did this town influence me to become a geologist?”
Here are some street signs I snapped around this small town.
You can see more street signs from Mentone, CA on my Flickr profile.
Photos by Dave Schumaker
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Dave – 18percentgrey (Omar) here via Twitter. I spent some time living in Redlands, and I had always noticed those signs every time I went to Mentone, or to Forrest Falls. Thanks for the memory jog. =] There’s some neat stuff around that area.
~Omar
Whoa, that’s pretty crazy! Random connections from the Inland Empire to San Francisco! :)
Cool! Years ago, I helped plan a riddle road rally that went through Mentone. We used some of those road signs for clues…
Oh wow! That’s pretty awesome. Yeah, I always got a kick out of those road signs and remember having a natural curiosity about them while growing up. “Mom, what is chrysolite???”
Simply, It’s Amazing!