Posts for Fall 2013
The story behind the sign
Many signs display Cougar pride on the way to Pullman, but only one stands 27 feet high and 400 feet long. The “Go Cougs” shed 12 miles east of Othello on Highway 26 was created in 1998 by Coug brothers Orman and Gavin Johnson.
“We needed to build a potato storage,” Orman says.
It was that simple.
“We’d drive to football games and we’d see small signs,” he says. “We thought, ‘we should do that’.”
And so the process began. Orman and Gavin say they knew they wanted to use sheet metal so there wouldn’t be any upkeep, but … » More …