But by the 1970s those atlases became less popular as insurance companies changed the way they assessed risks. So when the Sanborn Company, which still makes maps today – though with fewer minuscule details – was moving out of their San Francisco office, they decided to get rid of the historic atlases in that office. And that’s when young Professor Elliot McIntire, now 76, picked them up and brought them back to the Geography Department at California State University, Northridge, just outside Los Angeles.
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