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The Edge of the American West 
14 comments
May 24, 2010 at 9:20 pm
scottg
Saw that @Strange Maps. My first thought (from behind the Redwood Curtain) was along the lines of “hmph – classic – we’re not even ON the map of Hollywood’s California.”
Then I realized it’s a problem of both time and studio: it’s only on the 20th Century Fox map of California that you’ll find the Forest Moon of Endor.
May 24, 2010 at 9:41 pm
Vance
Tracking that back, we get to this Flickr image, attributed to this delightfully titled book, alas not scanned online. For a financial interest, I suppose the point to be made would be economy.
The one I find strangest is “Bret Harte, California” — I’m thinking it was intended to be “Bret Harte’s” California, but even that doesn’t make much sense, since many of his locations were nearer to Hollywood than Siberia etc. (And no, it’s nowhere near the eponymous census-designated place, or for that matter Twain Harte.)
May 24, 2010 at 9:42 pm
Vance
Also: reminds one that SF and Monterey Bays used to be full of wetlands.
May 24, 2010 at 10:11 pm
erubin
I’ve updated this for more modern films:
May 25, 2010 at 12:12 am
Martha Bridegam
And Tule Lake is Siberia. That’s perfect.
May 25, 2010 at 12:13 am
Martha Bridegam
So, OK, more like Susanville is Siberia. Still perfect.
May 25, 2010 at 4:39 am
jrm
So it’s for filming purposes, yes? The HBO show “Big Love” thought Sacramento was Mississippi too… Used the Delta King as a Mississippi riverboat casino.
May 25, 2010 at 5:58 am
Anderson
Living in Mississippi and having visited the Sacramento area a couple of years ago, I can attest that the resemblance is thin.
We have “water,” for instance, causing our “grass” to be various shades of green, not a dried yellow color.
(Of course, California has many qualities that make it a superior place to live compared to Mississippi … or at least, it used to; your state government has been working hard to bring y’all down to the Arkansas/Mississippi/Alabama bracket. And hey, we did get around to ratifying the Thirteenth Amendment 15 years ago!)
May 25, 2010 at 6:30 am
eric
In fairness, Anderson, if you visit us in the winter, the grass is green and the water is higher.
May 25, 2010 at 12:38 pm
Robert Halford
Sherwood Forest in the middle of the driest part of the Mojave seems like a stretch.
May 25, 2010 at 4:29 pm
AaLD
So I live amongst the Swiss Alps? Who woulda thunk it? Funny how flat they are.
May 26, 2010 at 1:27 am
Richard J
We have “water,” for instance, causing our “grass” to be various shades of green, not a dried yellow color.
Would that have been so important in the days of black and white film?
May 26, 2010 at 5:24 am
Erik Lund
California may be the world, but up here in Vancouver, we’re the universe!
Though it does bother me that the capital of outer space is on the SFU campus.
May 26, 2010 at 9:08 pm
stumpy
Credence Clearwater Revival would seem to be in agreement with Paramount in placing Sacramento in the South. Their “Green River” was actually written about Putah Creek, the murky stream that flows along the southern boundary of the Edge of the West.