An Oregon service station owner loved old maps so much, he launched a family business that’s still going strong more than 50 years later.
Ralph Preston passed away in 2019 at age 92. Preston never became a household name, but a series of large-format atlases he published beginning around 1970 became well-known in the Pacific Northwest and around the American West, with vintage editions still sought after by collectors.
The atlases make no promises or guarantees of lost treasure, but the whiff of forgotten places and things waiting to be found is a kind of historic catnip to a certain demographic or armchair explorer. And, as if the old maps weren’t enough, Preston’s books are also packed with vintage photos, and often a poem or two.
Sue Ramus is Ralph Preston’s daughter. She told KIRO Newsradio that because her dad had to go to work at such a young age, he never finished high school. “One of his customers at the time showed him a map of Oregon from 1878, and he was absolutely enthralled,” Sue Ramus said. It gave also her father an idea.
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