Six Google Maps from the Sixties

This idea was buzzing around my head for a while before I assembled it. Even though Google Maps has been around for less than a decade it is now seen as "the source" for so much information that we almost expect that it would have been around in the 60s. The colors of Google Maps are so ubiquitous across the World that the palette starts to feel like pop art to me. Like something Andy Warhol would have painted had Google been around then. I wanted to include a map of the bus route that Rosa Parks took when she refused to give up her seat. But Rosa Park's famous bus ride, a truly pioneering event that helped kicked off the civil rights movement happened in 1955. I compared my list with some other histories of the 1960s. There are other events that come up, like Neil Armstrong landing on the Moon and the Cuban Missile Crisis. The the six I went with are all nicely represented by close-up street maps. Plus I like the sound of "Six Google Maps from the Sixties". The events that took place in these 6 locations are (starting from the top left),

Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a Dream Speech" on the mall in Washington DC, August 28, 1963

John F Kennedy's Assassination as his motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza and the School Book Depository in Dallas TX. November 22, 1963

The civil rights march from Selma Alabama to Montgomery Alabama... better known as "Bloody Sunday" March 7, 1965

Martin Luther King Jr's Assassination on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee, April 4, 1968

Dike Bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, the place where Teddy Kennedy accidentally drove his car off the bridge and into the channel killing his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne and, according to many, dashing his chance to become President. July 18, 1969

Ending on a high note, Max Yasgur's farm was the site of Woodstock... "3 days of Peace, Love, & Music" August 15-18 1969

Since creating this, it has become a time capsule of its own. The look and feel of Google Maps has evolved many times since it’s inception.