Sunset Cliffs, Point Loma, CA

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Here’s two Real Photo Postcards in the Alice Ellison Collection, from July 1935. If you enlarge the top photo you can see the printing on the right that says,  “Sunset Cliffs Point Loma Cal.”  This must of been something done in the photo process; these are commercial type RPPCs made for tourists. (There was another found online with the same type of printing.) But the person who bought the postcards wrote the date on the fronts and backs.

Point Loma is the name used for both the seaside community within San Diego, and the peninsula that separates the San Diego Bay from the Pacific Ocean. The peninsula is said to have been the landing place of the first European exhibition (in 1542 by Portuguese explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, written as João Rodrigues Cabrilho in Portuguese.)

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Divided back, unused, Real Photo Postcards. July 1935. EKKP stamp boxes.

Price for the pair:  $15.00

Source:  Point Loma, San Diego. n.d. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Loma,_San_Diego. (Accessed March 1, 2015).