The Lincoln Highway was built to coincide with the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915, and was the inspiration for the Interstate

The Lincoln Highway was built to coincide with the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915, and was the inspiration for the Interstate Highway System. Modern, riveted, blue jeans were invented in California. Altavista was invented at Digital Equipment Corporation's Western Research Laboratory, in Palo Alto, CA. iPhones were invented in California. Credit for mobile phones is spread throughout much more than Finland, with Motorola and AT&T playing significant roles. Marx is just a non-sequitur, as far as I can tell. Which is all beside the point, as that sentence is literary device meant to evoke a sense of place.