(Thematic - Business) Portland Area High Technology Evolution Gunnison Carte Geographique

Carte Geographique

Jay Randolph

this map is enhanced with three vignettes for the "Smithsonian Institue"

The end result gives an insiders view of the town as they would think of it

(Thematic - Business) Portland Area High Technology Evolution Gunnison Carte Geographique(Thematic Business) Portland Area High Technology Evolution, Cacy & Linch, 1984The trajectory is familiar to post WW II tech regions where small businesses started in basements by electronics hobbyists and amateurs, and turns into brick and mortar stores. Companies like Hawthorne Electronics, one of the earliest companies shown would become a general electronics shop that built oscillascopes in back, with a store in front. Tracing the roots and