John Feathers dies leaving over 1 million maps that almost got destroyed. Has anyone heard of Feathers? I want to see more pictures ... Angie By Bob Pool, Los Angeles Times October 19, 2012 The discovery that real estate agent Matthew Greenberg made when he stepped inside a Mount Washington cottage will put the Los Angeles Public Library on the map. Stashed everywhere in the 948-square-foot tear-down were maps. Tens of thousands of maps. Fold-out street maps were stuffed in file cabinets, crammed into cardboard boxes, lined up on closet shelves and jammed into old dairy crates. Wall-size roll-up maps once familiar to schoolchildren were stacked in corners. Old globes were lined in rows atop bookshelves also filled with maps and atlases. to see the whole story ... http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-map-house-20121019,0,2619000.story