This cover painting by Maurice Logan also appeared on a 16-page, 1928 booklet titled “California for the Tourist.” This brochure has the equivalent of four pages and is aimed at southern Californians thinking of traveling to the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Aside from the cover painting, three out of the eight black-and-white photos in this brochure are also in the California booklet. A cartoonish map shows SP’s two routes between the two metropolises: the Coast Route, which went by Pebble Beach and the Del Monte Hotel; and the San Joaquin, which went closest to Yosemite and Sequoia parks. Naturally, the brochure subtly encourages travelers to see more of California by taking one route one way and the other route the other way.
Unlike the booklet, this one is undated, but was probably published at about the same time. One clue is that it lists the Sunset Limited as one of the trains between LA and San Francisco. In 1930, SP cut that train back to Los Angeles-New Orleans, so the booklet is from before that year.