Sunday, September 29, 2024

U.S. 40 Cross Section of the United States of America (Chapter 37: Double Highway)

 
That was then (1953).  




From chapter 37:
In flat country, the photographer must always seek some elevated point in which to obtain an adequate view of the highway -- a tall building, even an overpass.  Here a water tower provides the point of vantage.  
The direction of the viewis a littsle toward the southwest, about a dozen miles east of the Kansas border, and somewhat farther from the outskirts of Kansas City, which is a little outside the field of the picture, to the right.  
This is now.  The area about a dozen miles east of the Kansas border is now a suburban sprawl.  No sign of a water tower.

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Photo by Retiring Guy: 1952 Rand McNally Road Atlas (arrow added)



Related post:
Chapter 1:  Beginnings.  (7/19/2024)
Chapter 2:  Coastal Plain.  (7/20/2024)
Chapter 5.  Six-Lane Highway.  (8/4/2024)
Chapter 6.  Bush River.  (8/5/2024)
Chapter 7:  Baltimore rows.  (8/6/2024)
Chapter 8:  Ellicott City.  (8/7/2024)
Chapter 9.  Frederick.  (8/8/2024)
Chapter 11.  Horrible example.  (8/16/2024)
Chapter 12.  Mount Prospect.  (8/17/2024)
Chapter 13:  Ridge and Valley.  (8/18/2024)
Chapter 14:  The Narrows.  (8/19/2024)
Chapter 15:  From Little Savage Mountain.  (8/27/2024)
Chapter 16:  Mason-Dixon Line.  (8/28/2024)
Chapter 17:  Fort Necessity (8/29/2024)
Chapter 18:  Braddock's Grave, (8/30/2024)
Chapter 19:  Toll House.  (9/2/2024)
Chapter 20.  Coal Mine.  (9/5/2024)
Chapter 21:  Wheeling.  (9/6/2024)
Chapter 22:  Cambridge, Ohio.  (9/9/2024)
Chapter 23:  S-bridge.  (9/10/2024)
Chapter 24:  Highway and tree.  (9/11/2024)
Chapter 25:  Mileposts.  (9/12/2024)
Chapter 26.  Tavern.  (9/13/2024)
Chapter 27:  Taylorsville Dam.  (9/14/2024)
Chapter 28:  In full glory.  (9/16/2024)
Chapter 29.  Farm on the National Road (9/17/2024)
Chapter 30:  Victorian Elegance.  (9/18/2024)
Chapter 31:  Roadside Vendor (9/19/2024)/
Chapter 32:  Benjamin Harrison Era.  (9/21/2024)
Chapter 33:  Vandalia (9/22/2024)
Chapter 34.  Mississippi River (9/23/2024)
Chapter 35:  Road-building (9/27/2024)
Chapter 36.  Boonville (9/28/2024)

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