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Inner Court, Ramona's Marriage Place, Old Town, San Diego, CA, 1942

Subjects
GardensResidences
Card type
Linen
Date
c. 1942 (Linen)
Front of Inner Court, Ramona's Marriage Place, Old Town, San Diego, CA, 1942, c. 1942 linen postcard
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Back of Inner Court, Ramona's Marriage Place, Old Town, San Diego, CA, 1942, c. 1942 linen postcard
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About this postcard

The walled courtyard of Ramona's Marriage Place in Old Town San Diego, viewed across the fountain basin: a tiled-roof adobe wing behind, an American flag at the roofline, and dense plantings of banana, bougainvillea and flowering shrubs. The building is the Casa de Estudillo, raised in the 1820s by the Estudillo family and later promoted as the marriage place of Helen Hunt Jackson's novel Ramona, a claim that made the old adobe a fixture of San Diego sightseeing by the 1930s. A visitor writing in January 1942 reported only that they had seen the place, then planned the next day's trip to Tia Juana (Tijuana), the border town that had long been a standard side excursion from San Diego. The card carries a wartime slogan cancel urging the purchase of defense bonds and stamps, a common sight on mail in the first weeks after Pearl Harbor.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

We saw Ramona's marriage place. Dear Aunt Lucy, We came down to San Diego to-day and we are staying here to-night. To-morrow we are going to Tijuana, Mexico. We drove along the ocean most of the way down here. I'll write again when we get back. Love, Beula

PublisherHerz Post Cards
731—INNER COURT, RAMONA'S MARRIAGE PLACE, OLD TOWN, SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA.
PostmarkedSan Diego, CA, January 23, 1942, 19:30
Stamp
Addressed to
Lucy Sullivan

Alma Center, WI

Postcard record

Postmarked, San Diego, CA
PublisherHerz Post Cards
Series42406
ConditionVery good
Place addressedLucy Sullivan, Alma Center, WI
Place depictedRamona's Marriage Place, CA
Stamp1c Statue of Liberty, green, perforated on all sides
NotesLinen-textured stock with a white border; card number 42406 printed at lower right and a copyright line at lower left. Postmark: SAN DIEGO CALIF. JAN 23 7:30 PM 1942. Linen-texture divided back with white border; WWII "BUY DEFENSE BONDS AND STAMPS" slogan cancel; 1¢ Industry-Agriculture stamp. Light edge wear.

Cite this card

Inner Court, Ramona's Marriage Place, Old Town, San Diego, CA, 1942, postcard, c. 1942. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/inner-court-ramonas-marriage-place-old-town-san-diego-ca-194. Accessed November 2, 2026.