Flooded with Gulf Coast sunshine and the easy optimism of postwar prosperity, this chrome-era aerial view sweeps across Corpus Christi's waterfront bayfront, where South Beach glitters in the foreground with bathers and parked fin-tailed automobiles lining the seawall, while the city's modest but growing skyline — anchored by a tall hotel tower — rises behind palm-lined parks in the middle distance. On the far left, an Art Deco-influenced church steeple with a modernist clock tower commands the corner, lending the scene an almost European piazza quality. The photo was taken from the new Emerald Cove Hotel by colorist Don B. Whaley and published by Frank Whaley Post Cards of Corpus Christi, printed by the well-regarded Dexter Press of West Nyack, New York. The card is unused with a clean, unwritten verso.