A vertiginous aerial view of Mexico City's infamous "Nudo Mixcoac" interchange — a tangle of elevated expressways, manicured green medians, and mid-century modern office towers photographed at the height of the city's automobile age — sets the scene for one of the most entertainingly candid postcard messages in this collection. Written in careful block print by a traveler named Rollene to her parents Mr. and Mrs. A. Raman in Rochester, New York, the January 1983 message reads in full: "Dear Mom & Dad: We were stopped by a Mexico City policeman for making an illegal left-hand turn in our car. Paid him 100 pesos to avoid jail sentence. Having a wonderful time in adventurous and mysterious Mexico. Love, Rollene & Russell." The card identifies the view as the "Monumento a la Raza y sus Pasos a Desnivel" — Monument to the Pre-Hispanic Mexicans — published by AMMEX/Vistacolor, catalog V1696.