Las Vegas 1967 – Steve Hart

    This was made for an as-yet-unpublished teen horror novel set in Las Vegas in 1967. I set out to make a map that could be an artifact from the story, a fragment of a fictional road map in the style of that era, with handwriting by one of the characters over the top. For the map, I found a street map of the era and used it as a guide to delete streets from public 2022 streets data, and downgrading roads that were not major arteries yet. Like peeling back an onion skin and undoing decades of development, to get to the old edge of town, where terrifying powers lie waiting…