Terri Cash, owner of Temari Designs, will be moving into the location once occupied by Meredith’s Jewelers on third street in downtown Yankton. Meredith’s had a sign with a clock on it and Cash decided the clock was too much of a landmark to take down.

“I didn’t just want to take down the old sign and put up another one, so I had the old sign and clock redone with the store name,” she said. “The clock has been a part of downtown for a long time and I wanted to keep it there.”

Cash said the location made her want to move her business downtown.

“I always wanted to be downtown and the tradition of a jewelry store being in this location will continue,” she said. “There will have been a jewelry store here since about 1910.”

The clock was originally given to Art Meredith to hang up on his store sign by Elgin, a company that makes Railroad parts. The original front of the clock is still inside the store and Cash said she has no plans to sell any of the parts that needed to be taken out of the original clock.

“The clock has always been running and is still running and in working order,” she said. “The most important part of moving here was keeping the clock on the sign. I’m from Yankton and grew up here, so I remember the clock from my whole childhood as being part of downtown.”

She added that the clock was a piece of Yankton’s history and needed to stay.

“Landmarks like this are of major importance to the community,” Cash said. “It’s history and once it’s taken down it can’t be put back up. Keeping the clock on the sign was sort of like not tearing down the Meridian Bridge.”

The grand opening for Temari Designs is set for Feb. 1.

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