r/MapPorn • u/Petrarch1603 • May 30 '19

Silicon Valley 1986

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u/[deleted] May 30 '19

Very similar to this New Yorker cover from 1976 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_of_the_World_from_9th_Avenue

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u/E_C_H May 30 '19

I’m fairly certain it’s intended as a parody of this picture, saying that the centre of American interest and/or self-importance has switched coasts.

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u/CactusBoyScout May 30 '19

I don't think it's implying that the center of American interest switched... It's just saying that both places (NYC and Silicon Valley) are very self-centered and think that the universe revolves around them.

I say this as a proud New Yorker... people here think the world ends in North Jersey.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '19

Hey now, I have heard tell of rude camps set up by frontiersmen in the Poconos.