These fabulous color photos show cities, towns, streets, landmarks, and everyday life of Mexico in 1958. It was the time when about 60% of Mexicans lived in towns. Adolfo Lopez Mateos was elected as the president of Mexico.
Leon Reed’s father Walter Reed captured these photographs on his trip to Mexico.
A trip to Mexico. We drove in via Nuevo Laredo, drove down to (and beyond) Mexico City (including Taxco, Cuernavaca, Teotihuacan, Morelia, etc.), and returned back via Nuevo Laredo. We were in Mexico for nearly a month. We traveled everywhere you could go by trailer in the years between 1950-1964, and Mexico was by far the most spectacular trip in every sense of the word: most fabulous sights (both natural wonders and manmade/historic stuff), most “different” place, etc. My only regret is that we didn’t get far enough south or east to see any Maya sites – a shortcoming I need to fix in the next couple of years.
