Good Roads
Good Roads related posts click here This is the map that the Good Roads presentation analyzes: I’ll post the slide show as soon as I figure out how.
Good Roads related posts click here This is the map that the Good Roads presentation analyzes: I’ll post the slide show as soon as I figure out how.
In September 2015 I started a discovery project with an almost 100 year old map of Pasadena. At the time I called it One City One Map Life intervened, progress was slow, but I pushed slowly forward and now I’m going to be presenting my work to the Huntington Westerners in Pasadena on March 4, 2017. Mostly what I’ve done is look in depth at some of the locations on the old map and compare photos from the 1920’s and the present. For instance: The… Read More »Good Roads
Follow these links to find more information on the sites shown on the map. Lamanda Park Millionaires Row Busch Gardens Ross Field This will be a link to the slides show as soon as we figure out how to get there. Click here for other posts about this map on SimonBurrow.com All map posts on SimonBurrow.com
It is the common wisdom today that “Big Pharma” is making massive profits by exploiting both the taxpayers and the consumers of medicine. Think about how odd this animosity is. An industry that has been a major contributor to the incredible health advances of the last thirty years is being demonized.Read More »No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
In the 1920’s the slogan of the Automobile Club of Southern California was “Good Roads” The logo from a 1923 auto club map It is time to refocus on “Good Roads.” But this time lets call it “Smooth Roads.” Smooth Roads will improve the environment, reduce fossil fuel consumption, lower everyone’s carbon footprint and improve the general state of happiness. Will smoother roads accomplish the startling claims above? To find out try this mind experiment. Imagine two roads from your house to the State Capital. … Read More »Smoother Roads
My latest map project blends technology and history. Many years ago I bought an old Automobile Club of Southern California map of Pasadena. My plan is to first accurately date the map, digitize it and pin it onto Google Earth. Then by searching the archives of the Pasadena Historical Society and other local sources pin photos of what some of the interesting points on the map looked like in about 1920 when the map was printed. I hope then to visit the sites, retake… Read More »One City One Map
Lake Avenue is one of the major streets in Pasadena. Before the revival of Old Pasadena it was also the main shopping district. Today’s question is: How did it come to be called Lake Avenue when a Google map of the area doesn’t show a lake within twenty miles? A map from the 1920’s answers the question. The map was made by the Automobile Club when their slogan was “Good Roads.” Zooming in on the south end of Lake Avenue we find the answer to… Read More »How Lake Avenue Got Its Name
We have food in abundance, clean water to drink, remarkably good healthcare, we can venture out at night without fear and we complain about potholes in the roads. It is not the roads that are a problem it is our perspective. Photo is from the Chiricahua Mountains in Southern AZ
At Cortez Park in Phoenix I came across this stone sculpture. It has a henge-like quality. The park is on the Arizona Canal at about 35th Avenue. I have been walking the canalsRead More »Hengish Phoenix
It is Time to Eliminate the Income Tax.
The Federal Government needs lots of money and they get most of it through income taxes. Unfortunately income taxes distort behavior, are volatile and are extremely complicated. An asset tax could replace the income tax. It would be fairer, easier to enforce, less volatile and would discourage excessive leverage.Read More »Eliminate the Income Tax