Maps Of Time

And thoughts on unlikely historical sources

Well, I think this is very cool:

It’s the official store map—possibly a fire evacuation map, but also with the store’s address and number—hanging, in this case, in the entrance/lobby area of my local Giant supermarket.

I don’t know what year it’s from, but it’s old enough that it uses the old Giant logo which was retired in 2008 (the big G logo, at the bottom-right of the map). Those signs were still in use on shopping center and storefront signage recently enough that you can dig some of them up on Google Maps historical imagery: