{"product_id":"welcome-to-wonderful-wyoming-highway-map-1964","title":"Welcome to Wonderful Wyoming Highway Map 1964","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMOUNTAIN WEST. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eState Roadway Map, 1964. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e(This fold-out map ships for free.) \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis map was issued at a milestone moment in American auto-tourism and automobile transportation in general: 1964. The advent of the access-controlled interstate highway system was opening up the entire country to rapid regional and even transcontinental travel; but it was understandably slow to unroll, often accomplished in patchwork fashion section-by-section. The U.S. had long boasted a thorough network of roads from the first auto-road building booms of the early 20th century across the post-war years. But the auto-tourist still had to deal with a patchwork of U.S. and state highways mixed with locally developed roadways that ran through traffic-controlled and even crowded downtowns, large and small. Add to it, the motorist was often subjected to long unforgiving stretches of not well improved roads where you were largely on your own for sustenance, lodging, repairs, and fuel. And so, the first thing we noticed about this expressive map were the few stretches of Interstates 80, 90, and 25 that had been completed, swallowing up previous main highways, but prefacing the completed system (to be accompanied by state-run rest stops that would eventually mix in restaurant and fuel franchises) still a decade away. That said, the advent of the interstate was not going to help you much then or now in getting to what was already one of the most popular national parks in America: Yellowstone. But as this map makes clear, Wyoming tourism was not limited to Yellowstone. The whole state was and still is one amazing natural scene after another. And controlled-access highway or not, Wyoming was already well-served with webs of improved roads to get you to them by 1964. The early 1960s was a milestone moment in American history when long-haul auto-tourism became the egalitarian event that we still know it to be. With most Americans by that point owning a car (or two), the job market booming and vacation time a normal condition of employment, the great American family road trip was born. It seems clear that the state of Wyoming and WYO State Highway Department were going to be on the forefront of encouraging that wave of tourists out west, making it clear by way of this map that their state is where you’d get the most bang for your buck. Printed at a time when a tourist booster brochure and functional navigation tool were often one in the same (and as in the case here presented as a piece of technical art), the volume of inviting full-color scenes to be seen still beckons a half-century-plus later. [Condition: Used Very Good. There is only a slight nick or two on the front cover panel, but otherwise there is hardly any wear or tear to report: no paper thin edges along the creases common to older well-used maps, the full color prints still whole.] \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition: Used Very Good. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTravel Related. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions: 9” wide x 4” high (folded) \/ 32” wide x 18” high (unfolded)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Regionals","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48820819034369,"sku":"C1MTWYO00177","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/3264\/0513\/files\/wyoming-highway-map-1964-01-2730.jpg?v=1779281176","url":"https:\/\/theregionals.store\/products\/welcome-to-wonderful-wyoming-highway-map-1964","provider":"The Regionals","version":"1.0","type":"link"}