Saturday, April 4, 2015

Postcards

In the "H" are War with Mexico reenactors for demonstration at Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park
In the "E"  is Italo Zarate (to be first on train) and buddies going for the Golden Gloves and
radio commentator and host Jose Cantu at KBOR radio station 1949
In the first "L" is the Teatro Victoria sign on 14th and Harrison
In the second "L" is Ruben Cordova as a Lipan Apache at Palo Alto...
In the "O" is a musician standing outside of Rutledge Burger and Adolf Dittman who built Dittman Theatre which later became the Grande and is next to Rutledge on Washington St.

Hello From Texas postcard copied from Ebay




In the "T" is the Immaculate Conception Cathedral and Sacred Heart Church with fire engine and mid to late 1930s Plymouth
In the "E" is Viola Ruenes at home on 2nd floor of Teatro Victoria making tamales and the man they call "El Aguila"
In the "X" are four sisters dressed to kill '40's-style and 1940s dolls next to Missouri Pacific Railroad
In the "A" is the American flag atop the Market Square building and a pretty lady with Market Square reflected in window of Maria Elena's Restaurant (now El Jefe Cafe).
In the "S" is Fisher's Cafe diners and HEB market downtown around 1954.  Fisher's Cafe was across the Majestic which many may remember as the Radio Shack (I do at least).

Greetings from Brownsville postcard found on Ebay.




El Rancho Grande postcard and E-bay garbage-collage.


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