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By 1930, Rand McNally had two major road map competitors, General Drafting and Gousha, the latter of which was founded by a former Rand McNally sales representative. The Rand McNally Auto Chum, later to become the ubiquitous Rand McNally Road Atlas, debuted in 1924. The first full-color edition was published in 1960 and in 1993, it became fully ...
Harry Mathias Gousha, a sales executive for Rand McNally, left that company in 1926 to start his own map company out of Chicago, quickly becoming Rand McNally's chief competitor by offering the Touraide: a spiral-bound book with road maps, points of interest, and accommodations that was custom assembled for individual buyers.
General Drafting Corporation of Convent Station, New Jersey, founded by Otto G. Lindberg in 1909, was one of the "Big Three" road map publishers in the United States from 1930 to 1970, along with H.M. Gousha and Rand McNally. [1] Unlike the other two, General Drafting did not sell its maps to a variety of smaller customers, but was the ...
1926 Rand McNally road atlas - 420Traveler ... 1969 H.M. Gousha (Chevron) map of Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island - Dough4872 (talk ...
A 1929 map of New England produced by Gousha for Gulf Oil. Rand McNally's first road map, the New Automobile Road Map of New York City & Vicinity, was published in 1904. Gousha was founded in 1926 by former Rand McNally employees. General Drafting was founded in 1909.
Gousha was sold to Rand McNally in 1996. [37] In 1994, S&S acquired the software operations of Markt+Technik. [38] Later that year, Simon & Schuster (through Paramount) launched a software publisher in partnership with Davidson & Associates named Simon & Schuster Interactive. [39]
This section of the list of former state routes in New York contains all routes numbered between 301 and 400. Route. Southern or western terminus. Northern or eastern terminus. Formed. Removed. NY 305. (1930-early 1940s) New Jersey state line at Chestnut Ridge.
This section of the list of former state routes in New York contains all routes numbered between 101 and 200. Route. Southern or western terminus. Northern or eastern terminus. Formed. Removed. NY 104. (early 1930s) Atlantic Beach Bridge in Lawrence.