| | Thumbnail | | Creator | Date | Title / Author / Date / Location | Price | | | Description |
| 6439 |  | Details | Sprague, R. B. | 1952 |
| Big Game pictorial map San Francisco Oakland Berkeley Bowl |
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Sprague, R. B. |
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| 1952 |
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| $0.00 | Sprague--R--B- | Big-Game-pictorial-map-San-Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley-Bowl | SOLD <br><br>
An absorbing pictorial map of the San Francisco Bay Area by R. B. Sprague. Supports the "Big Game" [1]. Packed with sophomoric cartoons, puns ("fisherman's barf"), graphic exaggerations, and post-WWII references. Some of the references could only be appreciated by someone familiar with local geography and/or early 1950s Bay Area college culture.
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Not drawn to scale and limited only by Sprague's imagination, the cartoonish map depicts local highways snaking from the California Redwoods at top left (decorated with Christmas ornaments), to Lake Mead, down past the Bay Area ("sighted sub, sank same"), to Palo Alto, Watsonville, Mt. Hamilton with a final road sign at bottom right pointing to the Rose Bowl.
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Published 1952 in the Stanford Chapparal magazine. The Stanford Chaparral is a humor magazine published by students of Stanford University since 1899. In 1952 the Big Game was played at Berkeley where the California Golden Bears shut out Stanford 26 - 0.
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[1] The Big Game is the oldest college football rivalry. Dating back to 1892, the Big Game pits the University of California Berkeley Golden Bears football team against the Stanford University Cardinals. |