Life, 1925-02-26 · page 21 of 36
Life — February 26, 1925 — page 21: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This cartoon satirizes the mass migration to California during the 1920s real estate and oil boom. The drawing shows a massive crowd of diverse Americans — labeled with signs indicating their types ("Oil Promoters," "Religious Cranks," "Tourists," "Retired Rabbits," "Ford Club," "Would-Be Movie Stars," "William Gibbs Harding") — flowing toward California like a human flood. The satire targets not California itself but the *types* of people rushing there seeking fortune or reinvention: speculators, con artists, religious zealots, celebrity-seekers, and the gullible. The overlapping, chaotic crowd suggests both the scale of migration and the satirist's skepticism about whether this motley group represents genuine progress or merely greedy opportunism exploiting California's allure. This reflects 1920s anxieties about rapid social change, commercialism, and the "anything goes" mentality of the Jazz Age.
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