Year of Manufacture Road maps

[jbgroby]

I thought it would be neat to have YOM road map of the area where I live just outside of New Orleans, LA. took about a week to get one in from Ebay. It was strange to here the I-10 system in bits and pieces. Hwy 90 through New Orleans was the main east/west road from Fla. to California. A lot has sure changed.

Anybody else have one for their truck?

[FetchMeAPepsi]

I never thought about it but it sounds like a cool idea. How about some pics or scans of yours?

[1969_CM2590D]

I've got a few old maps, but my prizes are the 1940 Rand and the 1957 Rand Road Atlases. Both have pretty decent city sections- pre Interstate of course. Interstate construction did kick off in 1956- but what is in the the 1957 as Interstate was 99.9% pre-existing stuff that was re-signed. The first official designated new stretch of Interstate was a section of I-44 in Missouri opened in 1956. Even that had originally been planned as am improvement for US 66.

For more information and for the serious road geek go to http://www.us-highways.com/ The story of every US "shield" route, including extentions, truncations, realignments and decomissioning. There are also a ton of links to state and city highway sites.

Honestly, I can still spend hours there.