Tourists crowd the stone overlook at Lakeview Point as two gleaming Greyhound-style coaches and a fleet of late-1940s automobiles — a yellow coupe, a blue sedan, a red station wagon — bask in the Nevada desert light, the vast cobalt expanse of Lake Mead stretching to the Nevada-Arizona ranges beyond; it is postwar America on the road, newly mobile and hungry for the monumental. Created by Hoover (Boulder) Dam, Lake Mead was then the world's largest reservoir, and Lakeview Point — just a mile and a half from the dam on the Boulder Dam Highway — was the essential first stop for the coach-tour circuit. The chrome postcard was mailed by someone apparently traveling through Las Vegas, mentioning "Hoover Dam," staying at a hotel, referencing a brother and sending love — addressed to a couple in La Porte, Indiana. Franked with a 2-cent Jefferson stamp, it was postmarked October 1953 at Las Vegas, Nevada.