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July/August 1996 | Volume 47, Issue 4
Authors:
Historic Era:
Historic Theme:
Subject:
July/August 1996 | Volume 47, Issue 4
by Douglas A. Yorke, Jr., John Margolies, and Eric Baker , Chronicle Books, 132 pages, $18.95 . CODE: CRN-8
The early maps distributed by Tydol Oil, Deep-Rock, and Polarine Oil and Greases worked harder to lure Americans into their cars than did those from the superhighway era, when nine-tenths of American families routinely vacationed on the road. And the later maps show the change in national habits: their bleakly abstract drawings have all the flair of road signs along the coast-to-coast freeway slab. With the coming of the highway system the age of backroads meandering—and its glove-compartment propaganda—passed.