{"id":1817651,"date":"2023-07-31T09:01:47","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T13:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1817651"},"modified":"2023-07-31T09:01:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T13:01:47","slug":"adam-savage-paper-maps-and-the-thomas-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/07\/adam-savage-paper-maps-and-the-thomas-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Savage, Paper Maps and the Thomas Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Magic of Paper Maps\" width=\"760\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1wBbu49F930?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1wBbu49F930\">a 15-minute video posted to YouTube<\/a>, Adam Savage ruminates on the advantages of paper maps, the Los Angeles institution that was the Thomas Guide, and navigating by paper map in general (with digressions on the Knowledge and trap streets and such).<\/p>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/03\/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-thomas-guide\/\">The Rise and Fall of the Thomas Guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a 15-minute video posted to YouTube, Adam Savage ruminates on the advantages of paper maps, the Los Angeles institution that was the Thomas Guide, and navigating by paper map in general (with digressions on&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/07\/adam-savage-paper-maps-and-the-thomas-guide\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[752],"tags":[323,54,1056,845,610],"class_list":["post-1817651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-navigation","tag-california","tag-cities","tag-los-angeles","tag-paper-maps","tag-roads","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1785102,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/03\/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-thomas-guide\/","url_meta":{"origin":1817651,"position":0},"title":"The Rise and Fall of the Thomas Guide","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"10 March 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"KPCC's AirTalk has a nostalgic look at the Thomas Guide, which at one point was to Los Angeles what the Gazetteer is to Maine or the Sherlock map is to Winnipeg. 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