Rollo spotted this Mapsinthewild in a late 1940’s nuclear bunker operations room in York with the ‘most advanced map of the time’ laid out. This facility was designed to monitor impact and fall out. It would support a team of 60 for 30 days underground…. apparently design was out dated almost immediately (1950) but was still manned for 30 years!!!!
And here is the 1980’s tech update …
Via Reinder Storm A sheet from a Dutch #poetry calender. Poem by Riekus Waskowsky (translated into English by yours truly); illustration by […]
The final map in this series of Second World War maps is this stylish French map showing the slow progress of the […]
Continuing the album cover theme, Mike Dolbow sent me this CD cover of Back Roads and Abandoned Motels by the Jayhawks
Our friends at Maps on Drinks share lots of great booze/map pix. I love those contours
