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!