There Is Comfortable Room In California...
03/28/2008
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I was just reading a book about the 1920s, and there's an essay in it called New Social Types, by Elizabeth Stevenson. She writes that the State of California placed full page ad on January 5, 1924 that encouraged :people to move to the Golden State, saying that California was very modern, spent a lot of money on roads and schools, children grew taller there because of the sunshine and good , and ended by saying:
There is comfortable room in California for 26,000,000 more people.
Which would be fine—but now California has 37, 000, 000 people.
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