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  • John and Jane Adams Postcard Collection

Postcard back, Temecula Mercantile, Temecula

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Postcard back, Temecula Mercantile, Temecula
PC-002-146B
Postcard back, Temecula Mercantile, Temecula, California
This untraveled, divided back has a message printed in green at the top of the message panel as well as a rubber stamp naming a local store where this card was probably purchased. A pencil notation of the price of the card sold secondhand, and a number appear in the stampbox. The dividing line consists of the publisher's name and address.
Divided backs; Clark's Antiques; Stampboxes; Temecula Mercantile
  • John and Jane Adams Postcard Collection
MS-0008
Chamber of Commerce, Temecula, California
Postcard
3.5 inches X 5.5 inches
Yes
PC-002-146A

Temecla Mercantile

Built in 1890 from bricks locally made in Wolf Valey, it was a complete shopping center. Besides supplying the town, it was also a terminal for jerk-line freighters wose wagons moved cargo to isolated ranches and settlements in mountain valleys to the east and south.



[rubber stamp] Clark's Antiques 42030 Main St. Temecula, CA. 92390

[handwritten in cursive using pencil, in the address panel] G10¢

[number at bottom of stampbox] 121028

[publisher's information as dividing line] Published by Chamber of Commerce P.O. Box 264, Temecula, Ca. 92390

[printed at bottom of dividing space] Painting by Roy Morrissey Temecula, Ca.

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