San Diego County Popular Street Atlas 1976 Thomas Bros
Map has doodles inside front cover and a hand drawn map on the back cover.
Most pages have some minor staining
All pages present and securley fastened
Seller: kdhood/ Buyer: dougitt25
I think I missed an opportunity here.
I don’t have a 1976, and somebody got very good value for this one at 99 cents, with reasonable shipping costs.
Like the previous entries, it looks to be in fair condition, however, at least having a record of what the streets looked like in 1976 is valuable to me.
I can’t be sure from the cover if it is definitely a 1976 edition, because it looks like Thomas made a one-time decision to not print the year on the cover. The 1975 green and 1977 yellow cover editions have the year printed on the cover.
I have a Riverside atlas with practically the same cover back in San Diego in storage, and I think it’s a 1976 edition.
In my opinion, the buyer received a great deal.
It looks to me like the 1981 San Diego that was in my mom’s car for years, or else they repeated the color. The only 1976 edition I remember was the LA-Orange County edition, which was in bicentennial colors.
I live in the Palm Springs area Riverside County and I recalled developing an acute interest in mapping in a young age. The 1970′s(?) edition of Riverside-San Bernardino county had pages have a golden-brown color and some pages were Black-in-white. Most of the two-county area outside the cities or like Ontario-Upland and Palm Springs were relatively unbuild. Only Indio, Coachella, Indian Wells and Desert Hot springs were color-shaded cities, while other cities followed were indicated as county land. Local historians and those studied the impact of suburban sprawl will want the maps, but we live in an era you can obtain the data over the internet in a much lower cost. +