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The satellite imaging and aerial photography materials at Microsoft Terraserver can be used to show the exact spot where Nita and Kit met...
The place where they ran into each other would have been inside the southwestern cloverleaf ramp where the Southern State Parkway meets the Meadowbrook Parkway, behind Roosevelt High School. I used to access this spot the same way as Nita's described as doing it in the book -- by crossing the athletic fields behind the school, going through the belt of wooded ground between the school's back fence and the Meadowbrook Parkway, and then heading into the overgrown, tree-filled depression inside the cloverleaf.
Some details of the surrounding terrain have changed somewhat since the 1970's, as you might expect; but Kit's and Nita's meeting-place remains unchanged, and can still be seen in the USGS's satellite imagery of 1994. In this image,at two-meter resolution, you can clearly see the whole interchange, and the track behind Roosevelt HS. If the track itself is pointing at the one o'clock position, the cloverleaf is sort of at the two o'clock position, above it and to the right.
A closer view of that lobe of the cloverleaf is here.
You can compare the photographic detail to the detail on the USGS map of the area here.
And on this version of the USGS map, you can see the library where Nita hid, and her secondary school.
Fascinating...
-- DD
[This message was edited by Diane Duane on 07 January 2003 at 12:56.]
The place where they ran into each other would have been inside the southwestern cloverleaf ramp where the Southern State Parkway meets the Meadowbrook Parkway, behind Roosevelt High School. I used to access this spot the same way as Nita's described as doing it in the book -- by crossing the athletic fields behind the school, going through the belt of wooded ground between the school's back fence and the Meadowbrook Parkway, and then heading into the overgrown, tree-filled depression inside the cloverleaf.
Some details of the surrounding terrain have changed somewhat since the 1970's, as you might expect; but Kit's and Nita's meeting-place remains unchanged, and can still be seen in the USGS's satellite imagery of 1994. In this image,at two-meter resolution, you can clearly see the whole interchange, and the track behind Roosevelt HS. If the track itself is pointing at the one o'clock position, the cloverleaf is sort of at the two o'clock position, above it and to the right.
A closer view of that lobe of the cloverleaf is here.
You can compare the photographic detail to the detail on the USGS map of the area here.
And on this version of the USGS map, you can see the library where Nita hid, and her secondary school.
Fascinating...
-- DD
[This message was edited by Diane Duane on 07 January 2003 at 12:56.]
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