Found a 1990s map of Europe with Yugoslavia still on it at a garage sale for $3

I was digging through a box of old books in Portland last weekend and pulled out a road atlas from 1992. The borders were all wrong - Yugoslavia was still one big blob and Czechoslovakia hadn't split yet. I showed it to my buddy who collects Cold War stuff and he got way too excited about it. Turns out some people pay decent money for these outdated maps if the errors are obvious enough. Has anyone else found a weirdly dated map in the wild that made you do a double take?

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jamies455d ago

Yo have you ever seen a map where a whole country just straight up vanished? My buddy found one at his grandma's house, a 1989 AAA road atlas for the US. Thing had the Soviet Union still plastered all over Eastern Europe, and there was a whole section called "East Germany" with a little note about travel restrictions. He tried to use it for a road trip to Chicago and ended up lost for two hours because some highways that were on the map didn't exist anymore. He still keeps it on his coffee table to mess with people when they ask where something is.