Montana Elev’Co.
Wilsall, Montana
2011
The side of a rather massive grain elevator seems like an odd place to need to resort to creative abbreviation. Looks to me like there would have been plenty of room to spell out the whole name using the same size “font” as the existing letters if only they had arranged it like this:
MONTANA
ELEVATOR
COMPANY
Maybe they were just trying to save paint.
I think they didn’t plan ahead.
I have that problem all the time…
Maybe they just forgot to turn on the “auto-fit contents” option on their paintbrush.
I think anyone willing to put a paintbrush in hand, especially at those heights, can’t resist putting their own creative spin on anything in their control.