Yes glatt, they bring them along with them, because someone told them about the place, they read about it, or they've been through there before. Mining and timber people come to work seasonally, truckers and military passing through, or repeat tourists heading for Alaska. I've been there five times. It's strange looking at those signs, and recognizing so many from places I've been to, or close enough to that the name clicks. Like in the first picture there's a sign for Chehalis, Washington. I was working in Centralia, WA, for about three months in 1980, and we used to go to this weird store in Chehalis, called Sunbird, that was a bastard child of Kmart, Job Lots, and an Army Navy store, so it clicked immediately. Then of course some are for cities everyone has heard of, I mean a sign for Springfield, hell everyone knows a Springfield.
Hey Snakeadelic, where are you?