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In the early 1980s I picked up a handful of
very early Gulf maps on a day trip to Philadelphia from New York
City. The covers of them -- dating from the teens
-- are shown on this page.
I hadn't been feeling well that day -- awful
stomach issues, in fact.
I was still somewhat dazed and queasy after the train trip south, and had to be coaxed by a friend into walking into the bookstore
near downtown to check out whether they had any maps.
They
did. I saw a box of them, and saw the price of one dollar each... It was as if I had to stop and figure out if this were a dream,
delirium or
reality, before I made my selections and reached for my wallet.
The maps are amazingly primitive. The driver's options
for getting from place to place were not too many, and the need for any degree
of detail was not yet a consideration. |
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