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| If you want to travel back in time some 40 years Plaza Santo Domingo is the place for it. Just three blocks north of the zocalo, you can witness orders of wedding invitations and other announcements being taken and produced on hand presses after assembling the bits of metal type manually. There are also typewriters on desks in the portals where anyone may have an official paper drafted by a typist for a fee. |
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| Generally looking north across the plaza at the Iglesia de Santo Domingo. The building on the west side of the plaza (left) holds stationery shops inside and printers to personalize your order in the portals. The building far right in the center picture across Calle Brazil from the plaza was headquarters to the Mexican Inquisition and is now a museum of medicine. | From across Brazil looking back west at the fountain in the plaza and portal of the evangelists beyond. | |
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| Alive with activity, the Portal de Evangelistas is joy to visit as a a living free museum. The manual presses hug the columns. | There is a feel of important work being done as male typists at desks prepare official documents on non-electric typewriters. | The man in the white shirt center pulls the press lever down strongly with his left hand. |