A couple of weeks ago I was flipping through old photos at the Antique Marketplace, located about a block from our apartment. I like looking through old photos and postcards because it gives you a taste of the local history. The only problem is most are unmarked, so you often don’t know what you’re looking at.

I was going through one batch and saw some that looked to have tropical scenes. I flipped them over and found, amazingly, that they were scenes from Puerto Rico! I went through the whole stack and came up with 6 PR ones in total. Each of them had a short description, which was a real bonus. In addition, they all had US Army Censor stamps on the back, so we could pinpoint the age to around WWII. Even better, the Normandie Hotel seen in one of the photos was built in 1939, so we know we’re in the correct time period. Very cool, indeed! 

They are small scale photos (about 2×3), so we picked up some frames and mats. Evelyn did her magic, and the results can be seen below. Unfortunately, our scanner is in storage, so I can’t offer better views of them.