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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
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