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08-06-2016, 08:55 PM
Vacationing on the shores of Acapulco, before it became a resort metropolis
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Straddling a picturesque semicircular bay, the small Mexican port of Acapulco first came to the attention of well-to-do tourists following a visit by Edward, Prince of Wales in 1920.
Foreign investment came next, and roads and hotels popped up as the town’s population ballooned from under 5,000 to 50,000 in just a couple of decades.
In the 1950s, the city was still too expensive*for the average tourist*to visit. It acquired a reputation as the exclusive destination of Hollywood elites, including Elizabeth Taylor and Frank Sinatra.
These promotional photos from the early 1950s show models enjoying the many pleasures of the still-small resort town, decades before the emergence of a skyline dominated by massive hotel towers. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/06/acapulco/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Image: Ivan Dmitri/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Straddling a picturesque semicircular bay, the small Mexican port of Acapulco first came to the attention of well-to-do tourists following a visit by Edward, Prince of Wales in 1920.
Foreign investment came next, and roads and hotels popped up as the town’s population ballooned from under 5,000 to 50,000 in just a couple of decades.
In the 1950s, the city was still too expensive*for the average tourist*to visit. It acquired a reputation as the exclusive destination of Hollywood elites, including Elizabeth Taylor and Frank Sinatra.
These promotional photos from the early 1950s show models enjoying the many pleasures of the still-small resort town, decades before the emergence of a skyline dominated by massive hotel towers. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/06/acapulco/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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