Lined with towering date palms and bursting with marigolds and scarlet blooms in the foreground, Rabat's grand Avenue Mohammed V stretches toward a sun-bleached post office in this vivid 1962 chrome-era color photograph — a boulevard laid out during the French Protectorate and named for the king who won Morocco's independence just six years before this card was posted. Photographer Jeff of Casablanca, whose crisp color work defined mid-century Moroccan postcard imagery, captured the avenue at its most urbane: sleek 1950s automobiles, modernist arcaded facades, and the lush median garden that made Rabat feel like a North African Paris. On the back, a correspondent writes warmly in Romanian to Mahi in Bucharest, postmarked 27 October 1962 and sent Par Avion — a personal dispatch across the Cold War divide from Morocco to Romania, where Western travel was increasingly rare. A Moroccan 70-franc stamp featuring a painted prehistoric rock art motif completes the exotic franking.