I can't look at a well done map without being transported in my mind to the location depicted. My imagination takes the elements presented and fleshes them out, like looking at a framed house and seeing it completed as a home, curtains in the windows and all. There's a magic to superbly crafted maps, something the captures the very essence of a place at a certain time. No matter the changes that may occur over time, the snapshot a map provides freezes time itself, if only in our imaginations.
Today's map is of Cedar Point amusement park in 1969. It's huge,
6592 x 4197, but so worth the effort to peruse it's contents in detail. This is a time before Cedar Point became the huge
Thrill Park it is now, when a family could enjoy a more relaxed excursion. If you've been to Cedar Point anytime in the last decade, you'll be amazed at what used to be, and while I never went there until the mid-seventies, it was much as this map depicts. Enjoy your stroll in the past, I certainly did!
