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Started by Hot Rod Hootenanny, July 18, 2011, 07:18:02 PM

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Hot Rod Hootenanny

July 18, 2011, 07:18:02 PM  
http://www.historicmapworks.com/
Discovered the site by happenstance on Sunday when I was googling for something else.
Alas, they have alot of maps...of some regions (Ohio & Penn - good coverage. Miss & Louisiana - no coverage) with county maps from the end of the Civil War up through 1980.
Interesting to look through if you're interested in looking at city and highway development.
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Duke87

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July 18, 2011, 08:23:50 PM  
I had subscribed to that site a couple years back. I then discovered that after initially poking through quite fascinatedly, I wasn't using it, and I let it expire.
If you always take the same road, you will never see anything new.

NE2

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July 18, 2011, 08:49:31 PM  
It's no longer subscription-only, but who knows if they'll change it back. http://wardmaps.com/ is a similar site.
pre-1945 Florida route log

I accept and respect your identity as long as it's not dumb shit like "identifying as a vaccinated attack helicopter".

CL

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July 18, 2011, 08:54:37 PM  
I think this may have been linked here before, but Historic Aerials has some excellent aerial images of more populated areas, mainly dating from the '50s to today.
Infrastructure. The city.

ftballfan

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July 18, 2011, 10:58:11 PM  
Historic Aerials is very interesting. In the Detroit area, you can get a glimpse of the old interchange at I-94 and Telegraph, the old one at I-94 and Southfield, Spaghetti Junction before it was Spaghetti Junction, and the Jeffries under construction.

1995hoo

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July 19, 2011, 04:39:36 PM  
Love being able to see Ebbets Field on Historic Aerials.
"You know, you never have a guaranteed spot until you have a spot guaranteed."
—Olaf Kolzig, as quoted in the Washington Times on March 28, 2003,
commenting on the Capitals clinching a playoff spot.

"That sounded stupid, didn't it?"
—Kolzig, to the same reporter a few seconds later.

Hot Rod Hootenanny

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July 23, 2011, 07:07:35 PM  
Today's addition: For covered bridge lovers
http://www.handsomeproductions.com/tfkeller/index.html
Color photos of Covered bridges from the 1940s, 1950s, and maybe 60s.
Geographic focus is Eastern Great lakes and Northeast.
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