The exhibition of postcards "Santiago de la Ribera in the memory", inaugurated by the mayor of San Javier, Juan Martinez on Friday in the socio-cultural center "Prince of Asturias" in Santiago de la Ribera is an interesting contribution to the literature history of the town, both as a sociological landscape when 125th anniversary of its creation.
The show hosts a total of 210 postcards of the 250 that have been edited "what makes it the most complete existing collection" according to its author, José María Bautista, a resident of Santiago de la Ribera, cartófilo degree in history and passionate.
Included in the program of the 125th anniversary of the town, the exhibition postcards from the 50s, right when it opens the Post Office in Santiago de la Ribera, and cadets of the AGA and the demand for emerging tourism send to family and friends.
With the sea and the beach as a link of them all, the exhibition shows that most focused on the legendary restaurant Miramar, on the beach, the beach Fishmongers Barnuevo with when they were spas, the Yacht Club, Old and new, and the iconic Hotel Los Arcos.
These are the four themes around which to organize the shows that has aroused enormous interest among residents to remember or see for the first time the face of Santiago de la Ribera that time has faded into memory.
The local bookstore "Two Brothers", which released eight postcards, included in the exhibition, printing Rivers, or Galindo, Torre Pacheco, edited some of the cards soon became popular among other publishers.
The mayor of San Javier, Juan Martínez Pastor congratulated the author of the sample, José María Bautista, whom he thanked for the enormous task of collecting and organizing the exhibition which is divided into several panels with 18 postcards accompanied by a brief explanation written by hand , "as we like to cartófilos" said the architect of the exhibition that stood out among all the cards one denonimada "Our cauldron", 1963, showing two fishermen cooking a cauldron in the old way in the seashore , "I should republished because it's so us."
The council of Celebration and coordinating the actions of the 125th anniversary and the Mayor headman, Julia Gallut gave a gift to José María Bautista Martinez in appreciation of the work and enthusiasm that has made this exhibition, and to share it with all neighbors.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier