File under funny synchronicity:
I was talking with Jim White on Friday afternoon about the deathtrap that is the northbound offramp from Central onto Walnut Hill (by our offices). It's a short distance before the right turn to WH, and inevitably everyone already to the right on the frontage road is hell bent on going left while the exiters want to go right.
Then, I got the following email from our friend Rawlins Gilliland:
A lifelong friend emailed me this photo of your pre-Pegasus digs 48 years ago.
Her descriptor:
This is Central Expressway in 1959!!!! Looking south..that building you see near top of pic on side of Central is the Meadows Building, which is still there today...thats down around Lovers Lane. That overpass at the bottom of the pic....thats WALNUT HILL LANE! Park Lane is the next overpass and then the cloverleaf overpass is NORTHWEST HIGHWAY! You can see a few holes of the old Glen Lakes CC and the tunnel under Central for the golfers to cross.
Yup. Looks about the same in terms if frontage road positioning save for the lack of the extra dogleg and fewer lanes to cross. Of course, at 1959 traffic levels, it probably was less of a miracle when you made the turn.
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