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Olvera Street market scene, Los Angeles, California, circa 1935

Subjects
Ethnic CommunitiesMarketsStreet Scenes
Card type
Linen
Date
c. 1930 (White Border)
Front of Olvera Street market scene, Los Angeles, California, circa 1935, Western Publishing & Novelty Co., CA, USA, c. 1930 linen postcard
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Back of Olvera Street market scene, Los Angeles, California, circa 1935, Western Publishing & Novelty Co., CA, USA, c. 1930 linen postcard
Back

About this postcard

A colorful, romanticized view of Olvera Street in Los Angeles, with strolling figures in Mexican dress, a man strumming a guitar, and rows of pottery and baskets spread out for sale beneath a flower-trimmed awning and a pepper tree. Olvera Street is the short, brick-paved lane just north of the Plaza, preserved in the late 1920s as a Mexican marketplace and today part of El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument. Cards like this one, printed in the 1930s, sold the street as "typical of early Los Angeles."

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PublisherWestern Publishing & Novelty Co.
LA-19 TYPICAL OF EARLY LOS ANGELES—OLVERA STREET, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 6A-H2613 --- THIS SPACE FOR WRITING MESSAGES POST CARD THIS SPACE FOR ADDRESS ONLY PLACE ONE CENT STAMP HERE WESTERN PUBLISHING & NOVELTY CO., LOS ANGELES, CALIF.
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PublisherWestern Publishing & Novelty Co.
SeriesLA-19
ConditionVery good
PublisherWestern Publishing & Novelty Co., Los Angeles, CA
NotesLinen-textured stock with a white border; Curt Teich job number 6A-H2613 in the lower right corner. No postmark, address, or message — back is entirely blank. Divided-back linen-era card with a one-cent stamp box; light soiling and faint foxing on the cream stock.

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Olvera Street market scene, Los Angeles, California, circa 1935, postcard, c. 1930. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/olvera-street-market-scene-los-angeles-california-circa-1935. Accessed October 24, 2026.