Andy Hall: John and Carmen as Altar servers in 2001 At the top of calle Tokio was the church where my family went every Sunday . Tere's brother was baptised there and in the 1950s Teresa's grandparents lived nearby, in the Colonia Roma. Mexico City was still one of the most beautiful places on Earth in the 1940s and 50s. The Indian saint, Yoganada visited it and describes Xochimilco , (now rather unkempt), in his Autobiography of a Yogi as the most beautiful place on Earth. Mexico City was a decorous Queen of cities. The crime rate was low. The broad central avenues, modelled on the Champs - Élysées , were passable, and the clear air allowed a view of distant snow-covered volcanoes. Family members sigh over the lost beauties of Mexico City . Xochimilco by Vladmix We lived in Calle Tokyo in the Zona Rosa in an Art Deco 1930s house with wooden floors, white pillars and a marble staircase - the set of a Miroslava Stern movie, perhaps. ...
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