Los Angeles, California, United States – from the archives of the Hand Drawn Map Association

Be There When the Night Ignites

In 1992, during the aftermath of the Rodney King trial, Alan Scott drew this map of his neighborhood in Los Angeles. It documents the businesses that were looted the day of the verdict. The slogan at the top, Be There When the Night Ignites, is from an ad for a special effects show at Disneyland […]

Bus Route

I used to love our drop.io fileshare for all the maps, like this one, that people would upload and never explain to me. Ah, the early internet. 😭 All we really know about this map is that it includes a bus route in Los Angeles, and a reference to a timely 2026 topic: the possible […]