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As time goes on, one has a hard and harder time finding old maps of Portland. Either you've seen them before or they're just too expensive.
Powell's City of Books to the rescue. In a bin just to the right of the elevator doors in the Red Room, for less than five dollars a pop, you can find this:
It's the map on the right, of course. It's a "Map Wrap" from Nu-Vue Studio, a Minnesota company that does a rather admirable range of them. On 60# Text, it's good for wrapping things … or makes a nifty poster.
The detail is honest and pure and lovely to look at. Particularly delightful is the incomplete Banfield Expressway … the entry to which at the time was at what we now call the 43rd Avenue offramp. The future still lay ahead.
Remember, what we today call US Highways they then called Interstate highways. They were the interstate highways.
And that was the way it was in 1955.
Red Room. Powell's City of Books. Less than $5.
You can't go wrong.
Powell's City of Books to the rescue. In a bin just to the right of the elevator doors in the Red Room, for less than five dollars a pop, you can find this:
It's the map on the right, of course. It's a "Map Wrap" from Nu-Vue Studio, a Minnesota company that does a rather admirable range of them. On 60# Text, it's good for wrapping things … or makes a nifty poster.
The detail is honest and pure and lovely to look at. Particularly delightful is the incomplete Banfield Expressway … the entry to which at the time was at what we now call the 43rd Avenue offramp. The future still lay ahead.
Remember, what we today call US Highways they then called Interstate highways. They were the interstate highways.
And that was the way it was in 1955.
Red Room. Powell's City of Books. Less than $5.
You can't go wrong.
1 comment:
I think you have it backwards concerning the squib on US highways - in 1955, there were no "interstates," either in designation or actuality. Eisenhower signed the US Insterstate Act the following year (1956).
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