Afternoon At Pony Express

Acrylic paint on canvas.  30" x 30"

Pony Express Motel was built in 1955 in St. Joseph, Missouri. In 2007 the motel was torn down to build a franchise restaurant, and the new property owners tried to sell the sign on eBay. Civic leaders convinced the owners to instead donate it to the Pony Express National Museum in town, which spent about $22,000 to restore and move the sign about four miles to a small park behind the old Pony Express stables. Its neon rider, with much fanfare, was turned on again at dusk on October 11, 2008.

Rachel’s Pony Express sign is a combination of the original and the redesigned sign.