The Mississippi River Flows into the San Francisco Bay

Check out this bad boy: a 1927 map made by Paramount Studios to tell financiers all the locations they could shoot films in "foreign" settings right here in California.  Cool but I hate to tell you, Paramount Studios of the past, that the New England coast doesn't have redwoods.  Also, were financiers really knocking at your door demanding to know where you could film scenes featuring "Wyoming cattle ranches?"

(link.  Thanks Neil!)

Previously on Uptown Almanac

• ANOTHER NOVELTY MAP I LIKE
• Who doesn’t love a good novelty map?
• Fancy Mid-Market Interactive Map
• My Map Would Have More No.