A bold white modernist statue — a striding male nude — commands the foreground of this Mexico City street scene, its pale marble form set against a thicket of bare winter trees, while the massive concrete-and-glass Hotel Alameda rises behind a colonial church façade in a vivid collision of mid-century modernism and baroque heritage that defined 1960s Mexico City's rapid transformation. This is a hotel advertising postcard for the Hotel Alameda, grandly billed as "El Hotel Musical de México" — Mexico's musical hotel — part of the Western Hotels de Mexico chain, a prestige affiliation that placed the property among the best-known tourist addresses in the capital. The sender, Grace, dashes off an exuberant block-printed note to Dr. and Mrs. Francis C[ady] in Rochester, NY: "We are having a ball — marvelous meal. Flowers are beautiful, similar to Florida. Seeing palaces, just beautiful." The card was sent without a stamp (no postage visible), possibly hand-delivered or carried.