All This Is That: Off by one: The Thomas Guide bends to pressure to remove the number 666 from their mapbook cover

Monday, November 02, 2015

Off by one: The Thomas Guide bends to pressure to remove the number 666 from their mapbook cover

By Jack Brummet

The 1997 Thomas Guide mentions that the edition contains 666 new streets. Concerned Christians peppered the publisher with questions and complaints, worried that the use of the number 666 was a sort of satanic signal. Thomas eventually caved in and dropped the number by one.

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