Metropolis As Once Was Mapped

[dewline]

With apologies in advance to DC Comics and Mayfair Games.

This is the map I was telling fajrdrako about a few days ago on her LJ. (Since amended as we've both moved from LJ to Dreamwidth.)

I've specifically highlighted the neighbourhood I spoke of in that earlier posting, Lafayette, which according to the authors of the original DC Heroes Gamemaster's Manual of 1985, was home to an Acadien-originated settlement. In fact, it was described as having a largely Francophone community to that date.

Granted, the city's since been through some changes beginning with the renovations of Byrne, Wolfman and Helfer begun over phone calls and business correspondence probably that very year and put into action the following year with Man of Steel. Kurt Busiek put some of the neighbourhoods from that earlier Mayfair-designed map back into the modern Six Boroughs during his tenure on Action and Superman, though...so why not Lafayette as well?

And yes, there is a certain resemblance to Montréal in that older map, isn't there?

Comments

[mencc1701.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you're right... it looks like Montreal with Longueuil and the south shore removed.

[(Anonymous)]

And the Island of Montréal itself fused to the northern shoreline, as well.