Ride the roads to romance along the Golden Coast and thru the sunshine empire of Southern California (1963)

Ride the roads to romance along the Golden Coast and thru the sunshine empire of Southern California (1963)

Tourist map of southern California

A lively and highly artistic pictorial map of Southern California, on sheet 56x88.5, border with various attractive vignettes. Folded into self wrappers 21.5x9.5. Extends from Malibu Beach, Topanga Canyon and Mission San Fernando to Ensenada, centered on San Juan Capistrano in the west. Death Valley, Las Vegas, Needles, Parker Dam, the Salton Sea, to the Arizona boarder on the east. Covers the counties of San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Diego, and Imperial. It shows missions, places of interest and historically significant events in the region including Anza Trail 1774-76, and Butterfield Trail 1858. On verso cover title, text and map, it is filled with information and illustrations highlighting the recreational activities in the area including Knott's Ghost Town, Lake Arrowhead and Newport Harbor, and "Road to Romance : road map, Copyright 1963, The H.M. Gousha' Co. 927-J-7-KK. " of the region, with inset: enlarge map of the Los Angeles district. The Roads to Romance series ran during the 1940's and 1950's to promote tourism in Southern California. Relief shown pictorially. [David Rumsey]

Southern California Tourist Association
Cartography, Claude G. Putnam - Research, Arthur Woodward.

David Rumsey

1963

Campbell

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