I couldn’t find this image anywhere else on the internet, so I’m only assuming it’s a genuine. But even if it isn’t, it’s very reminiscent of the booster posters that were created to attract people to movie to California. Cheap land! (In fact 43,795,000 acres, which is a very specific number.) Room for millions of people! Cyclone-free and blizzard-free climate for health AND wealth! I don’t know how the entire rest of the country didn’t up stakes immediately! Of course, there are days when I’m on the San Diego Freeway and it’s a barely-moving parking lot and I wonder if everyone actually did.
** UPDATE ** – Turns out this is a modern reprint real poster circa 1885.
When I commuted from Northrop U. in Inglewood to Woodland Hills on weekends in the early 1980s, I generally avoided the 405 in favor of Mulholland Drive… 😉
So the 405 was bad, even back then???
Oh, yass. Unless you went really early or really late, it was generally miserable. 😀
Not millions of “people”; millions of “Immigrants”. Tells us who we were, and are.
Spectacular poster! Thank you. (Someone selling metal reproductions on Ebay gives a date of 1885. Does that sound right?)
Yeah, let’s go with that.
The font made it look like “Cyclones and Buzzards” to me at first.
I KNOW there are buzzards in California!