Sunday Fun: Kansas City's Map Store

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The smiling face above belongs to Pat Carroll, the proprietor of Gallup Map in downtown Kansas City. He is holding a map I purchased from his store as a budding high school meteorologist in the late 1960's.

I was driving through downtown KC a few weeks ago and was pleasantly shocked to see Gallup Map  Company was still in business. As a high schooler who wanted to be a meteorologist, I often stopped in to buy maps for plotting weather information.

For the first time in 60+ years, I visited last week. They still have a great selection of maps, art and related materials. I wanted to purchase a quadrangle topographic map for part of Johnson County and, it turned out, the area I needed was covered by two maps. Patrick used his computer tools to splice the two together and I had exactly what I needed. 

Storm Chasers: He has a great selection of state Gazetteers. 

It was great to see a family-operated business continue to flourish after decades in business. 

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