June 13th, 2014: Panora Speedway

[glatt]

It's state route 44 today. also known as 240th St.

And it looks like this.

[blueboy56]

Thanks for the display. I really enjoy old posters, ads and maps and how they compare once the accretion of time and population has taken place.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Thanks, I do too. They rarely mislead me like this one did, though.
OK, to be fair I mislead myself, but changes in language, in word usage, can completely change a sentence. Look how many ads and slogans used the word "gay". Reading them today has a different message to the average reader.

[mrputter]

There are so many details to love about the maps in this book.

From the “old unpainted shack” (p.22) to the “tank on wheel” (p.23). But I think my favourite has to be the arrowhead on p.25, about halfway between Grimes and the Hyperion Club, alerting motorists to “stumps in road.”

For the most part, indeed!

[xoxoxoBruce]

I read somewhere along the line, the guy speaking for the-greatest-in-the-state-Panora-Road-Organization, saying they had the cooperation of many of the farmers along the route. Since I don't think they had a highway department yet, I wonder if Mr King's Road Drags were handed out to a few farmers in return for maintaining a section. Like adopt-a-highway litter patrols. If so, I bet they had nice driveways.