Californie

1932 · A50580 — Los Angeles CA: Harper Collins. 1932. First Edition; First Printing. Stapled wraps. Very Good-. This is an oversized paperback booklet with illustrated covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some lightish bumping rubbing and wear along with associated wrinkles. There are two smallish spots where the color has been removed towards the top edge of the front cover by the spine joint. The rear cover of the book has a previous owner's ink stamped address no name at the top edge. The text pages are clean and bright. The contents contain a group of strip maps published by the Auto Club of Southern California that show two different trip routes the first from New York City to Southern Florida St. Augustine and the second from St. Augustine to San Diego. The pages also include bits of trivia regarding each strips and advertisements that a traveler can use hotels repair shops restaurants. Worldcat shows only four copies of this booklet. " All-weather roads crossed much of the nation by the mid 1930s; the system of numbered US highways had been introduced in 1926. Prior to that "named highways" like the Lincoln Highway or Yellowstone Trail had signs directing you from town to town coast to coast or border to border. By 1940 even most state highways were paved meaning you could reach almost any town in the country. The first arduous cross-country journeys were made in the teens but by the late 1930s it was commonplace for a middle-class family to make an auto trip of several hundred miles to vacation in a national park or to visit relatives. In The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck writes about the cross-country journey made via U. S. 66 by hundreds of Okies to California looking for work. "from Reddit / Askhistorians ; B&W Illustrations & Maps; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 104p. pages; Pictured 3/25/25 . Harper Collins paperback