mga707 Posted October 9, 2018 Report Share Posted October 9, 2018 1934 Rand McNally road atlas, good shape, all pages, only five bucks! Hours and hours of old road enlightenment here. Below are the front and back covers, my state, and my local area: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Ballard Posted October 9, 2018 Report Share Posted October 9, 2018 That is an incredible find. I'm curious... 1935. Where does it show US 66 ending in the west? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mga707 Posted October 11, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2018 It's 1934. And the western terminus of 66 is in Los Angeles, hard to tell exactly where. The Los Angeles city map in the back is stingy with US highway shields. The farthest west 66 shield shown is in Monrovia. Also interesting is that California is one of the few states that did not by that time have a numbered state highway system. Only US routes are shown on the combined California/Nevada map, and now California state shield is shown for reference, unlike nearly all other states. The variety of state highway shields is amazing! Arizona's had a 'backwards' swastika on theirs, which was a Navajo symbol before that idiot in Germany ruined it forever. You can see ti above, inside of the arrowhead, which in turn is inside of the detailed state outline. Current AZ shield is a very simplified and 'stylized' rendering of our state's shape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadtrip62 Posted October 12, 2018 Report Share Posted October 12, 2018 Nice find! My oldest atlas is an undated Clason's Touring Atlas from sometime in the 20s, with all the named trails. It's not in great shape and cost me $9.00, so you got a bargain! - Don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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