Street Atlas USA
I just got a copy of DeLorme's Street Atlas USA and did the natural thing:
pulled up my address and started looking around my neighborhood.
When I pulled back to a 12X magnification view of Indianapolis, I noticed
some BIZARRE things…like place names of buildings and institutions that
have been gone from the landscape for 20-30 years or more. Our baseball
stadium (Bush) had its WWII-era name (Victory Field). Riverside Amusement
Park, torn down when I was a kid, is back. So's the Mallory Technical
Institute. St. Vincent Hospital is in the spot it occupied up until about
1974 on Fall Creek Parkway. Interstates and state roads all appear to be
in the right spots, but many of the place names around them are from the
wrong end of the time-space continuum.
DeLorme tech staff says they pulled their info from the 1980-85 TIGER
databank of the U.S. Census Department.
Is this just an Indianapolis phenomenon, or are other parts of the country
having similar problems?
–Bill