With the 20th anniversary of Radiohead’s OK Computer approaching next month, fans may have solved a decades-old mystery.
Ahead of the remastered re-release of OK Computer, one redditor posed a theory and enlisted the help of some roadgeeks to figure out where the highway on the cover is located. Jordan117 exited onto the AARoads forum and quickly had an answer: an interchange in Hartford, Connecticut.
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The AARoads user who pinpointed it, Mapmikey, explained that it “took about 10 minutes” to find, in roadgeek terms:
The middle BGS [Big Green Sign] has a two word control city with just a single letter as the first word. The BGS on the right has a two word city but two actual words. I figured that it was east of the Mississippi because of the (IMO) tight footprint of the interchange.
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The Hilton Hartford Hotel even got involved, claiming the photo was taken from its 22nd floor. Jordan117 went further, surmising the photo was taken during a tour stop in 1996.
https://www.facebook.com/hiltonhartford/videos/vb.361402600334/10158637300315335/?type=2&theater
Because of this spotlight on a Hartford highway, older stories about its possible reconstruction have resurfaced too. Some fans in r/radiohead even admitted they’ve driven that highway countless times and never made the connection.
This is way better than the eating photos of Thom Yorke thing.
H/T AV Club