Antique & Vintage Postcards

Sun-bleached palapa umbrellas cast pools of shade on a near-empty beach while Walt and Jean soaked up every moment of their Mexican fishing holiday — this vivid chrome multiview from Guaymas, Sonora captures the coastal resort town at its mid-century finest, with four photographic vignettes arranged in a bold diamond layout: island-dotted blue sea, palapa-shaded beach, a white colonial church tower lining the main boulevard, and pangas bobbing at a palm-fringed marina. Guaymas, a deepwater port on the Sea of Cortez about 75 miles south of Hermosillo, was a fashionable escape for American anglers and sun-seekers in the 1960s. Walt mailed this to his friends, telling them the fishing and everything was beautiful and that he'd already made plans to return — a warm, chatty note that ends with thoughts of shrimp and lobster.