Stinkypuppy wrote:
A while ago I came across some older maps of the US, dating back to when the Interstate system was still being built. It seemed so weird and amazing that there would be little stretches of Interstate freeway on the map, or with so many of the US highways that pretty much no longer exist (as is largely the case in California).
I've got a 1939 road atlas for U.S. (before the interstate system), it's a shockingly narrow b & w booklet. Also have a full-color/fold-out WW2 era travel map from Royal Dutch Airlines/"KLM"/Shell Oil, showing a journey between Europe & Indonesia. Inherited these from family, don't know the particulars-they're fun to pore over, like vaguely mysterious clues.
In general, I treasure reference material relics (such as an encyclopedia of home medicine from the 1880's).
I like seeing symbolic/charted depictions of how things used to be, for instance the changing names & borders of various nations. Or the shifts in population centers, the rise & fall of cities. Reminds me that things were not always as they are now, and not just eons ago-pace of change increasing in recent decades.
Aesthetically pleasing to look at, use new/free/non-precious maps to decorate my walls & have bought stationary made from recycled USGS maps.
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16 Oct 2006, 6:58 pm
I wonder if my like of maps is why I like strategy games...
