“The middle BGS (highway slang for “Big Green Sign”) has a two-word control city with just a single letter as the first word,” he wrote in a post on AARoads. MapMikey verified his discovery by closely examining some road signs and nearby buildings. It's the junction of Interstates 84 and 91 in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Magadan took the picture, and the puzzle, to AARoads, an online forum for “roadgeeks,” a nickname for people who love talking about things like interstates, freeways and on-ramps.Ī commenter who calls himself MapMikey recognized the exchange from his own travels and the research he’s done on East Coast highways (He’s one of the principles behind the Virginia Highways Project.) He said it only took about 10 minutes to crack the puzzle – even though he’d never seen the album cover before. “I'd just always wondered, is it Los Angeles, is it Tokyo? Could it be somewhere in the U.K.? I figured there might be some kind of interesting story about that that gives you an insight into the thinking that went into designing it.” That got Radiohead fan Jordan Magadan, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, thinking. It included a photo of that interchange that was just a little bit clearer than the bleached-out, fuzzy image on the cover. To celebrate the album’s 20th anniversary, the band released some behind-the-scenes material from the making of the album. It made Radiohead one of the world’s biggest bands and popularized a hard-edged but melancholy sound that still shapes popular music, two decades later. OK Computer is one of the most celebrated albums of all time by rock critics and music fans alike. Now some internet sleuths think they’ve found it – in Hartford, Connecticut. The band has never said where the picture came from. The iconic cover art of Radiohead’s album OK Computer shows a heavily distorted picture of an anonymous highway interchange.