A Christmas card from the grim future of the San Francisco Bay

A plan is hatched to dam the San Francisco Bay, creating two freshwater lakes and freeing up vast new tracts of land for development. Today this might sound like a grim future, but in 1945 it was fodder for this priceless holiday card from John Reber, the mastermind behind the plan:

Joyous Map of the Reber Plan
(via sparkletack)

Brilliant!

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