Description
This vintage postcard shows Main Street, Fort Worth, Texas, bathed in a muted orange sunset, viewed looking north from Ninth Street. The buildings are primarily brown brick structures, hinting at the city’s bustling past. This postcard, depicting Fort Worth as a major trade center, dates from approximately the 1950s.
Front Text (cleaned):
Main St., looking north from Ninth St., Fort Worth, Tex. — 51
Back Text (cleaned):
Here is a city in the heart of the fastest-growing trade territory in the United States. It is the most important meat-packing industry in the Southwest; the center of the world's greatest petroleum-producing region; the largest terminal grain market in the South.
