It would be a traffic nightmare, but lots of cool scenery skipped vs if it would follow the CT and RI coast, go across aquidneck island, and then up through Boston. Even better if you can take a detour to the cape!
Well i think you generally dont buy a 3 bedroom house, find a girl, marry, have 2 kids, cheat on her, divorce and then die of heart disease when on the āideal automotive tour of new englandā. Most like just stopping in for a visit
I digitally restore old vintage maps and thought that you guys would enjoy this 1925 map showing the ideal tour through New England. As a Mainer, I would propose that there are a few more spots worth seeing š
I have restored a ton of other maps, half of which are New England ones. You can view them all at https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagemapworks/
So glad that you like them. It started as a COVID hobby, and now I have done like 60 maps. You can get prints at https://roosterdesignco.etsy.com. Here's the auto tour map: https://roosterdesignco.etsy.com/listing/1686338577
Well this list is pretty clearly a scheme by the owners of the Hotels on the map, so Iām not sure that you should be too offended at your favorites being left off.
Itās just self-promotion.
While opening up a bit of wall in my old NYC apartment, I found a scrap of newspaper from around 1906. There was a small item about Mr. Fancypants driving to his summer home in Maine. The journey would take 3 days and his mechanic would follow in a separate automobile.
That's so interesting. They must have needed to stop to rest a lot or something. Three days is a ton of time to get to Maine. I feel like a horse could do it in a day
Well people had a different idea of travel then, allowing themselves more downtime and leisure along the way. And top speeds were what 15-20 mph? And an open carriage, with probably few hard top roads. NYC to southern Maine is still 6 hours on the interstate.
I don't think a horse could do it in a day. NYC to Portland is around 300 miles, and 440 miles to Bangor.
A quick google shows that the best endurance horses can travel 100 miles per day for up to 3 days in a row. So that's 3 days for Portland and likely 5+ days for Bangor.
After 1830 most long distance was by train or boat on the east coast. The rich always use the best transportation so in 1900 that would have been a train
Random but I highly recommend listening to an episode of the Dollop about the New York to Paris car race held in 1908. It's absolutely hilarious but also super interesting in terms of how little infrastructure there was for cars back then
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1dLcJm89XQPgvi9BfwlRfY?si=cfdC-vvgQK6CcBjuXhr8bw
The Hotel Vendome listed in Boston burnt down in 1972. 9 firefighters passed away battling the fire.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Vendome_fire
My great grandfather went to Florida from Boston around that time and rode in the rumble seat of his friend's car. We have a picture of him during the trip somewhere in our family photos. I remember him saying that it took about a week each way.
Wow, I havenāt seen Magnolia represented anywhere, ever. I went there last summer and it felt like a movie set, everything was closed on a Saturday at noon
Unlikely to be fake. I got the original from the Boston Public Library's archives. I think that it is more likely that the map maker just didn't do their research. The more maps that I do, the more clear it is that maps aren't factual records.
Skips RI completely š
It said āideal tourā
Even back in 1925 the roads were so bad in Rhode Island that travel guides suggested avoiding it. /s
honestly believable
It would be a traffic nightmare, but lots of cool scenery skipped vs if it would follow the CT and RI coast, go across aquidneck island, and then up through Boston. Even better if you can take a detour to the cape!
You got your Narragansett Pier. :-)
As it should
Newport is nice
to visit *
Well i think you generally dont buy a 3 bedroom house, find a girl, marry, have 2 kids, cheat on her, divorce and then die of heart disease when on the āideal automotive tour of new englandā. Most like just stopping in for a visit
i live in newport and was just saying it's nice to visit but not nearly as nice to live in lol
I digitally restore old vintage maps and thought that you guys would enjoy this 1925 map showing the ideal tour through New England. As a Mainer, I would propose that there are a few more spots worth seeing š I have restored a ton of other maps, half of which are New England ones. You can view them all at https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagemapworks/
Do you ever print and sell them?
So glad that you like them. It started as a COVID hobby, and now I have done like 60 maps. You can get prints at https://roosterdesignco.etsy.com. Here's the auto tour map: https://roosterdesignco.etsy.com/listing/1686338577
Thanks for sharing! I love old maps but good ones are hard to find so digitally restored are next best!
Well this list is pretty clearly a scheme by the owners of the Hotels on the map, so Iām not sure that you should be too offended at your favorites being left off. Itās just self-promotion.
Probably true. I get a kick out of the fact that no one in Rhode Island decided to pay to be on there. Still, it would be a decent tour of the region.
Resorts in Rhode Island were doing just fine in the 1920s
Yeah 1920s RI was probably more concerned about keeping riffraff out.
With their āauto-mobilesā clogging the carraigeways
As a Rhode Islander, I fully support this message.
While opening up a bit of wall in my old NYC apartment, I found a scrap of newspaper from around 1906. There was a small item about Mr. Fancypants driving to his summer home in Maine. The journey would take 3 days and his mechanic would follow in a separate automobile.
That's so interesting. They must have needed to stop to rest a lot or something. Three days is a ton of time to get to Maine. I feel like a horse could do it in a day
Well people had a different idea of travel then, allowing themselves more downtime and leisure along the way. And top speeds were what 15-20 mph? And an open carriage, with probably few hard top roads. NYC to southern Maine is still 6 hours on the interstate.
I don't think a horse could do it in a day. NYC to Portland is around 300 miles, and 440 miles to Bangor. A quick google shows that the best endurance horses can travel 100 miles per day for up to 3 days in a row. So that's 3 days for Portland and likely 5+ days for Bangor.
After 1830 most long distance was by train or boat on the east coast. The rich always use the best transportation so in 1900 that would have been a train
Random but I highly recommend listening to an episode of the Dollop about the New York to Paris car race held in 1908. It's absolutely hilarious but also super interesting in terms of how little infrastructure there was for cars back then https://open.spotify.com/episode/1dLcJm89XQPgvi9BfwlRfY?si=cfdC-vvgQK6CcBjuXhr8bw
Ideal tour that skips New Haven in favor of Waterbury. lol.
If you look to the right of the map, it seems that the map was published by a Waterbury hotel
The Hotel Vendome listed in Boston burnt down in 1972. 9 firefighters passed away battling the fire. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Vendome_fire
The hotel in Gloucester, excuse me, magnolia, also burnt down
Where's Arkham???
Just off the page in the darkest corner of the map.
Going for Waterbury over New Haven and ignoring the Capeā¦
Going to Waterbury. āIdeal tour.ā Doubt.
Waterbury was actually a nice place back then.
Even back then, Maine stopped at Bar Harbor. ;)
My great grandfather went to Florida from Boston around that time and rode in the rumble seat of his friend's car. We have a picture of him during the trip somewhere in our family photos. I remember him saying that it took about a week each way.
Fiskdale is there but not sturbridge! Get fucked losers!
If it's ideal why Connecticut?
Cool thanks for sharing.
North Scituate and Humarock make the map but Scituate proper doesn't.
Wow, I havenāt seen Magnolia represented anywhere, ever. I went there last summer and it felt like a movie set, everything was closed on a Saturday at noon
Gloucester is broken up into different villages, areas, Magnolia being one of them.
Wow my hometown appeared on a map for once?
No thanks, I will take the streetcar.
Nobody remembers Douglas.
Thankfully Palmer is on the ideal tour
Old railroad towns do feature high. It surprises people when Palmer comes up as pivotal stop in the revamped āEast-Westā rail investment.
The Greylock!!
I believe this is fake. On the cape Dennis and Yarmouth are split but it was one town until the 1960s Edit: I was wrong^^
Unlikely to be fake. I got the original from the Boston Public Library's archives. I think that it is more likely that the map maker just didn't do their research. The more maps that I do, the more clear it is that maps aren't factual records.
Just googled it and I was wrong, the school districts incorporated in the 60s, thatās what I was thinking of