I am curious if anyone else collects state specific highway maps? I have a good set for the two states I am licensed in - South Dakota and Nebraska. S. Dak. goes back to 1933 and Nebraska back to 1927 with some years missing in each set. Not every year was produced and in the later years they quit putting the dates on the outside. Some years used the same cover from the previous year. Interesting to see how the roads have evolved and how the Interstate system was built in segments and not continuous from one end to the other.
I've got a couple hundred maps; but nothing as organized as yours....:-$
If I see maps at a flea market or garage sale I pick them up.
RADAR, post: 364172, member: 413 wrote: I've got a couple hundred maps; but nothing as organized as yours....:-$
If I see maps at a flea market or garage sale I pick them up.
Also have a large collection of fold up gas station maps. Some stations I've never heard of. Sears even issued maps. Back in the day when maps were given away as part of their advertising.
I cannot say that I collect street maps. I prefer old beach maps.
1959 Barrier Beach.
Sample of gas station maps. Many of these were produced yearly into the 1980's, so one could build quite a collection from each particular station year by year.
I have a fishing map to most every lake in NETexas somewhere in storage.
Hell of a collection neighbor.
Ok, you guys made me go look. I have some highway maps of various states... NH, Vermont, MA (I think), PA, likely MD. Most of them are not in great shape (as in tattered).
But, should anybody be interested in them, let me know. Perhaps I could send them to an interested party for a nominal donation to this wonderful site?
I have a road atlas for all 48 States from about 1947. That is a very fascinating way to idle away hours.
That is a fine collection for sure.
I have a few NM, OK, KS, MO, IL that are all pre-interstate, probably late 40s. Found them in a box in my folks attic when I sold the house a few years ago.
I took a picture of this one from sometime in the 80's I think. What's different about it is that the maps are produced and distributed for free by TxDot but our US Congressman at the time got a boat load of them, probably for free, put his campaign sticker on them and mailed them out. This is the same Charlie Willson from a movie a few years ago about supplying arms to Afgan fighters battling Russia.
I thought this thread about about highway plans. We've got about 200 sets in our office.