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The 210 through Glendora, first light, the San Gabriels behind

Brief · A vintage mid-century travel postcard illustration. Style: printed like cheap vintage four-colour lithography, with a COARSE VISIBLE HALFTONE DOT SCREEN across the entire image — especially sky and water. Fine stipple and engraved tonal detail underneath the screen, but no bold black outlines, no woodcut, no comic ink, no photorealism, no 3D, no gloss, no digital gradients. Palette: warm cream-sand #f0d8c0 plus one blue — dusty teal #90c0c0 and slate #607878 when sun-bleached, saturated cyan #30c0d8 when vivid. Muted olive greens in foliage. Composition: the subject sits in the RIGHT THIRD; the left two-thirds is nearly empty sky, water or ground. Low horizon. No people, or figures so small they are marks. Scene: the 210 freeway running east through Glendora at first light — an empty six-lane roadway, sound walls, the San Gabriel Mountains rising sharply behind, one overhead sign gantry with blank panels. Mood: dependable, unglamorous, quietly beautiful at this hour. Optional single small red accent: the tail lights of one distant car. No text, no lettering, no signage anywhere. 3:2 landscape, full bleed.