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dolariI have an INCREDBILE craving for Hot Wings.
The bad thing about having no money, and getting a craving, is I'm not hungry...but I want Hot Wings. So I end up munching on small stuff to try and get rid of that craving. And it just DOESN'T work.
Hopefully, though, I'll have a job come Monday. The Bastrop Advertiser is looking for typesetters, and I can do it. I hope it can be telecommute, since I have everything I need at home (Quark, Pagemaker and the like). If not, the 60 mile round trip is going to kill me. I can't turn the job down, but I won't be much help if it all goes to gas.
Wish me luck. I could use it.
I found a WONDERFUL online map site with scans of old maps, and downloaded one of the coolest things imaginable. It's the first real map of Texas Highways in 1917. And then there was the 1919 "Proposed State Highway System." It was neat to see some of the routes proposed...like the proposed State Highway 12 "The Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway." It basically started in Orange, TX and hugged the coastline from Houston to Corpus to Brownsville, hugging the Rio Grande back up to Laredo, Del Rio, Sanderson, into Big Bend via Boquillas, Van Horn to El Paso. It would have been a massively long highway to be built from scratch. The 1917 Map shows that they had rearranged it in Big Bend, shortening it up, matching it up with an already existing road and sending it to New Mexico instead of El Paso. Now, according to my 1932 map, there was a tiny little Highway 12, which was between Corpus and Falfurrias...that was all they really had made of this incredibly long road.
Fast forward to me, in 2003, looking at this map...I decided to see how much of that road exists, and believe it or not, virtually all of it now exists, but isn't signed as anything, or are County roads and the like. You can literally drive the proposed Highway 12 from ORange, to Houston, to Corpus to Brownsville, then turn around and head to Laredo, Eagle Pass, Del Rio and Sanderson. Bits of these roads are tiny little county roads RIGTH where that 1917 map said it would be. The part of the road going through Big Bend, though, doesn't exist in any way shape or form.
Another head scratcher on the 1917 map was the fact that there were TWO Highway 2s. One was the one I knew about, which roughly corresponds to Present day I-35. It goes from Fort Worth to Waco to Austin to San Antonio to LAredo...however...there is yet ANOTHER Highway 2, going from Waco to Galveston. Not 2A or 2ALT. In several places, there are little split routes that are duplcated, but always come back to one point, but the Galveston Branch never comes back. And while the 1919 map has the two Highway 2s, TxDOT had obviously decided that you don't need to make a new number if the oldnumber was just as good. So we have the two Highway 2s, 2A, 2B, two 3s, 3A, 3B, 3C and 3D, all of which go every which way they want.
Another cool thing about the 1916 map was the trail names of the highways. Dunno if any of you know this (or have even READ this far :) ) but before 1969, there were no Interstates. Before 1926 there were no US highways, and before 1910 there were very few numbered highways at all. Instead, you took roads with NAMES. Like the Lincoln Highway, or the Pan Am Highway, or Old Spanish Trail (Which went through San Antonio), San Antonio Road, Camino Real. All 26 highways are named with their trail names. Highway 2 (The San Antonio one) was simply called "Meridian" the other (going to Galveston) was "Gulf Division." Present day I-10 from Houston to Del Rio (aka State Highway 3) was "Southern National." Highway six from Denison to Waco was the "King of Trails." Highwasy 13 was the "Ozark Trail. 17 was the "Pecos Valley" Highway 23 was the "Southwest Trail."
Did I mention there are only 26 highways listed in 1917? As of 2003, there are over 300 State Highways, not counting Farm to Market roads. By 1917 there were at least 50.
I did a quick look at a map, and realized that of the 28 originally proposed highways, in the year 2003, only three of them exist as the same number. Only a tiny bit og Highwasy 7 still exists on it's old routing, Highwasy 14 between Corsicana and Huntsville is on it's originally proposed route and 21 which exists on it's old route for well over 75% of it's route, from San Augustine to Giddings.
By 1932, the US highways had taken over. TX 1 became US 80 which later became Interstate 20 and 30. TX 2 became US 81, which became I-35. TX 3 became US 90 which became I-10, and nearly all of the first 26 numbers became US highways.
Yeah, I'm a complete roadgeek...why do you ask?
If you like maps, go here. They have maps going back to 1720!
The bad thing about having no money, and getting a craving, is I'm not hungry...but I want Hot Wings. So I end up munching on small stuff to try and get rid of that craving. And it just DOESN'T work.
Hopefully, though, I'll have a job come Monday. The Bastrop Advertiser is looking for typesetters, and I can do it. I hope it can be telecommute, since I have everything I need at home (Quark, Pagemaker and the like). If not, the 60 mile round trip is going to kill me. I can't turn the job down, but I won't be much help if it all goes to gas.
Wish me luck. I could use it.
I found a WONDERFUL online map site with scans of old maps, and downloaded one of the coolest things imaginable. It's the first real map of Texas Highways in 1917. And then there was the 1919 "Proposed State Highway System." It was neat to see some of the routes proposed...like the proposed State Highway 12 "The Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway." It basically started in Orange, TX and hugged the coastline from Houston to Corpus to Brownsville, hugging the Rio Grande back up to Laredo, Del Rio, Sanderson, into Big Bend via Boquillas, Van Horn to El Paso. It would have been a massively long highway to be built from scratch. The 1917 Map shows that they had rearranged it in Big Bend, shortening it up, matching it up with an already existing road and sending it to New Mexico instead of El Paso. Now, according to my 1932 map, there was a tiny little Highway 12, which was between Corpus and Falfurrias...that was all they really had made of this incredibly long road.
Fast forward to me, in 2003, looking at this map...I decided to see how much of that road exists, and believe it or not, virtually all of it now exists, but isn't signed as anything, or are County roads and the like. You can literally drive the proposed Highway 12 from ORange, to Houston, to Corpus to Brownsville, then turn around and head to Laredo, Eagle Pass, Del Rio and Sanderson. Bits of these roads are tiny little county roads RIGTH where that 1917 map said it would be. The part of the road going through Big Bend, though, doesn't exist in any way shape or form.
Another head scratcher on the 1917 map was the fact that there were TWO Highway 2s. One was the one I knew about, which roughly corresponds to Present day I-35. It goes from Fort Worth to Waco to Austin to San Antonio to LAredo...however...there is yet ANOTHER Highway 2, going from Waco to Galveston. Not 2A or 2ALT. In several places, there are little split routes that are duplcated, but always come back to one point, but the Galveston Branch never comes back. And while the 1919 map has the two Highway 2s, TxDOT had obviously decided that you don't need to make a new number if the oldnumber was just as good. So we have the two Highway 2s, 2A, 2B, two 3s, 3A, 3B, 3C and 3D, all of which go every which way they want.
Another cool thing about the 1916 map was the trail names of the highways. Dunno if any of you know this (or have even READ this far :) ) but before 1969, there were no Interstates. Before 1926 there were no US highways, and before 1910 there were very few numbered highways at all. Instead, you took roads with NAMES. Like the Lincoln Highway, or the Pan Am Highway, or Old Spanish Trail (Which went through San Antonio), San Antonio Road, Camino Real. All 26 highways are named with their trail names. Highway 2 (The San Antonio one) was simply called "Meridian" the other (going to Galveston) was "Gulf Division." Present day I-10 from Houston to Del Rio (aka State Highway 3) was "Southern National." Highway six from Denison to Waco was the "King of Trails." Highwasy 13 was the "Ozark Trail. 17 was the "Pecos Valley" Highway 23 was the "Southwest Trail."
Did I mention there are only 26 highways listed in 1917? As of 2003, there are over 300 State Highways, not counting Farm to Market roads. By 1917 there were at least 50.
I did a quick look at a map, and realized that of the 28 originally proposed highways, in the year 2003, only three of them exist as the same number. Only a tiny bit og Highwasy 7 still exists on it's old routing, Highwasy 14 between Corsicana and Huntsville is on it's originally proposed route and 21 which exists on it's old route for well over 75% of it's route, from San Augustine to Giddings.
By 1932, the US highways had taken over. TX 1 became US 80 which later became Interstate 20 and 30. TX 2 became US 81, which became I-35. TX 3 became US 90 which became I-10, and nearly all of the first 26 numbers became US highways.
Yeah, I'm a complete roadgeek...why do you ask?
If you like maps, go here. They have maps going back to 1720!
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