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Postcard 1960s Chrome Tijuana Mexico Crafts Market Artisan Souvenir Scene
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Chrome · 1968

Postcard 1960s Chrome Tijuana Mexico Crafts Market Artisan Souvenir Scene

Tijuana, Mexico1968ChromeExcellent

A kaleidoscope of Mexican craft culture bursts across this composite chrome postcard from Tijuana, Mexico — at center, a skilled artisan leans intently over a massive hand-painted sombrero, his brush adding the finishing flourishes to an intricate wheel of miniature hats and spinning tops; to the left, two women in traditional folklórico skirts browse stacked lacquerware; and to the right, a sun-drenched Revolución-area market street teems with serape-draped storefronts, wooden figurines, and the sensory overflow that made a day-trip to Tijuana an unforgettable adventure for millions of American tourists in the postwar decades. This card is part of the same "Tijuana — Most Visited City in the World" series as the cathedral night card, sharing the identical sombrero logo back design and consistent Western-suffix catalog numbering (C29378), suggesting these were produced as a coordinated set for curio and hotel shops along Avenida Revolución in the late 1960s to early 1970s.

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PC-05081 · Unknown (Tijuana "Most Visited City in the World" series)
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