Typewritten captions for photographs of Tijuana, 1931

Item Overview

Title

Typewritten captions for photographs of Tijuana, 1931

Creator

Bartlett, Adelbert, $d 1887-1966

Date Created

1931

Date

1931

Language

English

Collection

Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Notes

Caption

Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Tia Juana. Bartlett. Outside the "longest bar in the world" at Tia Juana, which is thronged with Eastern tenderfeet during the summer overland vacation season, hovers the native vendor of tourist goods, and he speaks good "Engleese;" will if you desire, escort you through various back doors of the little town, especially when he sees two husky Mexican policemen, each wearing a brace of guns, extra ammunition, handcuffs, blackjacks and other implements of war, in their motor truck, which is a travell-jail, leave for manhunt or something in the outskirts of town. Miss Jean Myras, Hollywood model, trying her best not to look "professional" in picture. 1931
Text reads: Bartlett. Street scenes in Tia Juana. Typical small rural Mexican carreta or cart and donkey. The donkey stands all day, while an occasional tourist poses with him for the master's tintype camera. Sleepy daytime view of exterior of what is at night a roaring tobacco-smoke and liquor-fume filled dive which is almost too much for your timid tourist from Eastern states

Physical Description

Extent

1 p.

Keywords

Genre

typescripts

Location

Mexico--Tijuana (Baja California)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Bars--Mexico--Tijuana (Baja California)
Donkeys--Mexico--Tijuana (Baja California)
International
Carts & wagons--Mexico--Tijuana (Baja California)