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Subject: RE: Seeking a map of Old U.S. 40 in the Carquinez Straits
area, California, 1925-1927
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 21:24:19 +0000
From: Ken Rockwell <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
Thanks, Russell; I will look for them... as soon as I find the site
working again. Currently it doesn't want to come up. Maybe down for
maintenance? Better luck next week...
---Ken R
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Subject: Re: Seeking a map of Old U.S. 40 in the Carquinez Straits area,
California, 1925-1927
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Subject: Re: Seeking a map of Old U.S. 40 in the Carquinez Straits area,
California, 1925-1927
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 10:58:40 -0500
From: Russell Guy <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
Hi Ken;
Standard Oil of California issued a 1925 road map of Northern/Central
California, and then a 1927 road map of California. Shell Oil issued
Northern California road maps in 1925-2927.
The Rumsey collection has on-line a couple of Rand McNally maps of
California from 1925-1926.
Cheers
Russell
At 06:16 PM 11/8/2012, you wrote:
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>Subject: Seeking a map of Old U.S. 40 in the Carquinez Straits area,
>California, 1925-1927
>Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 23:07:41 +0000
>From: Ken Rockwell <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
><[log in to unmask]>
>
>
>
>I have contact with an elderly gentleman who is researching the route
>of old U.S. 40. I have helped him with the Utah section, and now he
>has contacted me looking for information on the route in California,
>particularly in the Bay Area. He has seen a reference that it once
>passed through Martinez and Crockett in Contra Costa County. He was
>hoping Id have a map from the 1920s that might show the designated
>route, but I do not. Our librarys Special Collections has some guide
>books with strip maps for Utah and adjacent states, published by the
>Utah State Association Touring Bureau and Auto Club Bureau of
>Information (probably predecessors of AAA chapters), and maybe similar
>guides exist for the California stretch.
>
>My best guess is that, when U.S. 40 was designated in 1925, it was
>routed through Benicia to a ferry crossing the Carquinez Strait to
>Martinez and then followed a route west to San Pablo Avenue, which was
>certainly U.S. 40 later on. When the first Carquinez Bridge was built
>in 1927, they rerouted the official highway over it. So the key is to
>find a road map showing U.S. 40 during the two-year period between
>designation and rerouting. Maybe one of your collections out there
>(library or private) includes such a map and you could look this up for
>us? A copy, paper or scanned would be wonderful if such a map is found.
>
>Thanks
>
>Ken Rockwell
>
>Marriott Library
>
>University of Utah
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