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![[Archive of film location maps for distribution to cast and crew of dozens of films and TV shows.] Los Angeles area, 1983-1987.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BRM3609-Film-location-map-archive-1983-1987_lowres-150x150.jpg)
An enormous collection of 281 Los Angeles-area film location maps from the mid-1980s, distributed to cast and crew just in advance of their shoots. Ephemeral in the extreme, designed to be used for a few days at most and then discarded. The archive represents a great swathe of mid-‘80s mainstream American film and TV culture, […]
![Designed by Frank Zappa M[others] O[f] I[nvention], FREAK OUT. Hot Spots! [Los Angeles]: Freak Out Productions, 1966.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/BRM3839-Zappa-Freak-Out-Map-1966_front_lowres-scaled-e1660250161865-150x150.jpg)
Frank Zappa’s Freak Out. Hot Spots! pictorial map of Los Angeles, both a guide to the city’s nascent Freak scene and a pungent commentary on its police tactics. The map was a separately-published companion to Freak Out!, the debut album by Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and a love letter to an emerging “Freak” […]
Only the second known example—and the only complete–of this educational card game featuring maps of California counties. The game consists of a pack of 116 playing cards, two for each of California’s 58 counties, with each county represented by a map card and a statistical card. Each map card depicts the county’s major geographic features, […]