It was not until the spring of 1920 that work was at last begun on the
new railway station in the Town. Months before the actual building was
undertaken, the Town Council raised on each side of the triangular and
barren park at Cypress Hill enormous signs with lettering three feet
high. The signs faced the tracks of three great transcontinental
railroads. Above the squalor and filth of the Flats they raised their
explosive legends. Each read the same.