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From 1953 to 1955 the Dallas Mapsco was made with a glued back

Summary: From 1953 to 1955 the Dallas Mapsco was made with a glued back in order to save costs on production These first few years also saw the production of Mapsco s first product outside of Dallas and it was not but was In the mid 50s Mapsco became the first company to make a Houston street atlas The endeavor ended unfortunately when the glued backs of the Houston maps disintegrated in the humid air of that city and Mapsco has not made any Houston maps since For the first few years Mapscos were not available to the general public It was created specifically for business and delivery purposes and sales were slow until 1956 when the city of Dallas bought 300 books for their fire and ambulance services In 1955 Mapsco adopted a style indexing system with singular letters arranged in a grid over the streets In Dallas the grid index has not changed since then At that time the city was a bewildering array of street names that matched streets in yet unannexed areas which lead to a lot of confusion Mapsco was the only accurate map of the newly sprawling Sunbelt metropolis By the late 1950s having a Mapsco became a status symbol

Image Dimensions: 200 x 329