(Thematic - Business) Portland Area High Technology Evolution Gunnison drainage ditches

drainage ditches

showing an inset of the area

Perhaps most striking about this large map are the three engraved vignettes for "State House Nashville

Carte Geographique

The end result gives an insiders view of the town as they would think of it

(Thematic - Business) Portland Area High Technology Evolution Gunnison drainage ditches(Thematic Business) Portland Area High Technology Evolution, Cacy & Linch, 1984The trajectory is familiar to post WW II tech regions where small businesses started in basements by electronics hobbyists and amateurs, and turns into brick and mortar stores. Companies like Hawthorne Electronics, one of the earliest companies shown would become a general electronics shop that built oscillascopes in back, with a store in front. Tracing the roots and