Hi Gary, and I just went through the first page I came to on your site, Judy....
One year later, female Gulf customers were forced to travel in pairs, as the map's reverse indicates.
I LOLed at this-- also at the business about the Queen Elizabeth wave...!
I've wanted to go to that Indiana event for a few years, but certain medical concerns and lack of a car seem to be getting in the way. "Room to Room"?
A couple days ago, I found on my own what must have been the site you referred to, that talks about independent women drivers being shown and catered to on covers of 30s maps, and how they pulled the plug on that in the 40s. Oh well. That's when my mother would have learned to drive, except she didn't until the 70s. ?
Lately I'm thinking I want to start working gasoline signs into drawings, somehow getting across how the images have affected me over the decades, something I don't know myself yet. When I thought about this more, I realized that for instance the Cities Service sign was always a little "jarring" to me. The green clover and triangle might seem like a strange "face"...
That's as far as I've gotten, and some readers have bailed on this thread already, probably, but I might like to have some landscape with stormclouds in a drawing with a broken Cities Service sign towering over the rubble of the ruined station, something surreal.
I'll be back to normal next post, everyone, promise....
