Tuesday, August 23, 2011

El Paso, Texas

Nellie M.H. King Taylor sent this wonderful postcard folder to Mrs. John Decker in Meeker, Ohio in 1949. I can't fit all the great views on one post, so I'll put up some more tomorrow. El Paso looks like a relatively quiet place in these pictures; at the time it had a population of just under 130,000.  It has since grown to almost 650,000.






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6 comments:

  1. Cappuccinoandartjournal.blogspot.comAugust 23, 2011 at 6:10 AM

    Love the cowgirl sitting on top of the state. And I love those folding postcards...

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  2. DorincardAugust 23, 2011 at 6:30 AM

    Beautiful, nostalgic postcards...:)

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  3. Archie TechtAugust 23, 2011 at 9:28 AM

    The images make it look almost quaint, if sprawling- friends of mine that grew up there said it was a hell hole...

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  4. Tattered and LostAugust 23, 2011 at 1:09 PM

    Love the stadium. It's so precise. And the plaza is really great.

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  5. AnnAugust 23, 2011 at 2:46 PM

    love the foldout postcards!!
    the cowgirl on it is fabulous!!.. definitely TEXAS!!!
    they sure made El Paso look inviting!!1

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  6. TrishiaSeptember 6, 2011 at 7:14 PM

    Any sentence that combines any part of Texas with hell hole, I have to agree with:) What's strange is my life in Texas wasn't THAT bad. I just didn't want to be there! And when you ride Amtrak across Texas, you think you're never going to get out alive......Despite my feelings, I can see the lovely graphic appeal in the postcard design:)

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