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Hi Guys! After three years of failing to connect to MTC (pesteng corporate firewall), I'm back to savor the past, with your postings of course. Now I have to spend days and weeks for backtracking. Marami na bang goldies dito?

Huwag rin kalimutan yung truly 70's vehicle.

 

MINICA!

Ang taxi sa Davao! Meron pa ba sa Davao nito?

Shopwise Cubao.

Pure Gold Cubao.

Isetann Cubao.

Lower prices.

just heard from a report that ariel ureta denied the bisekleta incident during martial law did not actually happen

 

that was the stuff of legends

Hindi naman niya na-ideny ang incident during the martial law years kasi takot siyang balikan ng military. If I'm not mistaken, ilang araw siyang hindi nag-report sa show.

sa naalala ko...hygiene products na gamit ng tatay ko...Tancho Pomade chaka Veto Cream Deodorant

Yeah. Tancho pomade, sa Mercury Drug ako bumibili nito ngayon. Veto (If it's you they're talking about!), matagal na yatang wala nito.

Eh yung Charlie-ng Balakubak? Guard commercial ba to?

that puppy for sale bldg. used to be the prudential bldg. I believe

buhay pa ang syvel's and sunburst fried chicken noon sa escolta

Prudential building, the puppy-for-sale building since the 70's is now a supermarket. Parang South supermarket. Mga 4 years ago, nakabili pa ako dito ng mistisong askal for 300 pesos.

yup, here's a photo of sakbayan

He he he! Ito yung sasakyang pinaakyat nila sa hagdanan ng Post Office to prove it's strength. Luckily nakaakyat naman!

Umiinom ako usually ng Mefenamic Acid.. pag after an hour at di tumalab.. iinom na ko ng Avamigran.

I take the same drugs but in a different mode.

May 3 hours leadtime ang migraine attack. Nararamdaman mong bumibigat ang ulo mo o kaya medyo nabibingi ka o lumalabo ng konti ang paningin mo. For migraine sufferers, alam na nila ang mga telltale signs ng migraine attack. During this leadtime, umiinom na ako ng avamigran. Kapag hindi napigilan at nagsimula ng pumitik, I take mefenamic acid to relieve the pain. Then tuloy ang avamigran every 6 hours.

I remember that before the advent of video games, the arcades had those old school pinball machines. Problem was I was too little to play since I could not reach the paddles...

I never got to play this pinball machines in the 70's. Full electronics na ba ang sensors niya? I played the big pinball machines (de-yugyug) during the late 60's and I think analog na analog ang dating. Kailangan mong yugyugin ng todo to score big points. Tapos nadadaya pa kasi meron kaming pinupokpok sa likuran and the pinballs just keep coming out.

Yung hot pants e short shorts na low waist (or low rise) tapos with matching knee length wet look boots and midriff (tawag sa labas pusod) fitted shirt or blouse o kaya'y with loose see-through blouse. Sexy talaga. Pero sexy rin yung fashion ngayon, pleated miniskirt with matching high-heel styletto (mala mean girls). Ang lamang lang noon e uso yung bra less. Pero now naman naka-thongs.

Ang lupeeeeet!!! Pati yung bra-less naalala mo pa rin! Fan ka siguro ni Didith Reyes.

Mahirap isulat pero madaling idemonstrate. I know all the rules pa. Kapag nagkita-kita tayo. I'm more than willing to demonstrate the game. Mpdesty aside (with yabang), ako yung pinakamagaling sa school namin sa larong iyan. Dumating nga yung point na wala ng gustong makipaglaro sa akin noon.

Oks. Pati parusa ng talunan ituro mo sa amin.

Yeah. I remember that. Pero malakas makaasar yung Pendong. Kapag nakakita ka ng kalbo o volks beetle, unahan sa batok with simultaneous blurt of the word pendong.

 

Usong sugal sa school - booklatan.

 

Usong sugal sa tulay ng UP CAS (Palma Hall). Miss Universe.

 

Uso rin noon yung tumbang preso, bending and piko.

Pendong-kalas ang sinisigaw namin nuon sabay taas ng kamay with the sign of victory para hindi ka mabatukan ng iba. The victory sign signified you've already seen yung kalbo at nakabatok ka na so exempted ka na mabatukan pa ng iba.

Also, one habit we picked up eh yung pag naglalakad ang barkada sa kalye at nakakita kami ng lata, we kicked the can forward and we alternately kicked it hanggang sa makarating kami sa pupuntahan, kasama yung lata.

Mga usong laro nung 70s

 

Shato

Jolens

Chinese garter

Sipang overhead

Tex

Pinoy football -pinagsamang football at baseball

Agawan base

basagan ng sigay

foot jump

luksong tinik

Luksong baka or viola camatis

Trumpo

jackstone

pick-up sticks

pin ball

Night driver

He! he! he!

My kids are playing jolens sa bed pero target shooting lang. I wish those who still remember could give us the rule and procedures para maituro naman natin sa mga kids. Me konting lupa pa ako sa backyard ko. I was 10 the last time I played it kaya limot ko na.

I remember riding the motorco from baclaran to luneta....tapos maglalaro kami sa slide and swing duon sa likod ng quirino grandstand.

 

wala ng motorco ngayon, ang pumalit....the old karetela, naka park sa rajah solayman park sa may aristocrat sa malate or grand boulevard hotel. sa tapat ng park is the manila baywalk walk park, a project of mayor lito atienza...kain kayo ng barbeque while you watch the manila bay sunset.

I was able to see the motorco(resurrected siguro) mga 4 years ago na naka-park near the Rizal monument. Ewan ko lang ngayon kung saan nalipat.

I remember that commercial....pero diba late 60s yun?

I think so. Late 60's. May TV commercial na may magandang chicks na nakatayo yata sa magarang kotse.

And the "Ye! Ye Vonnel!" jingle was the battlecry then of the schoolchildren.

hi all napadaan lang and enjoying the trip

 

now ko lang na-discover this great thread... ang galeng-galeng! (ika nga ni ariel ureta)

 

about zeneida amador and baby barredo.. matagal silang nagkasama sa repertory kasi they're a couple

 

and trivia lang about me... tita ko si LILIOSA HILAO.. remember her? she's the UP student who was one of the very first victims of the martial law era ... she was brutally tortured and raped by the military.... hers was the most "celebrated" case among all of marcos' victims

Hi Darleng,

Paki-check lang about Liliosa. Alam ko Liliosa was my schoolmate at the Pamantasan Ng Lungsod Ng Maynila. Fourth year siya, second year ako. She was the editor-in-chief of our school paper, a graduating Journalism student, a summa cum laude candidate, and the most ardent activist in the school. I remember I was was caught by an Army Lt. assigned with our ROTC department after I tried to smuggle some "manifestos" in our school. I was interrogated for two hours. The news broke out in the school. Lily got worried and sent some words that she wanted to talk to me about the incident. The talk never materialized because a week later, on April 1973, she was abducted by the military, and two days later, was found dead in a comfort room. The captors said she committed suicide by drinking muriatic acid.

Binurol siya sa Guadalupe. I was there when a military squad led by a colonel came to "condole" with the family. There, I saw the fury of her sister, kasi pinagmumura niya yung colonel. Paano raw iinom ng muriatic acid si Liliosa eh pati dibdib daw niya eh sunog sa acid. Ibig sabihin daw nuon, pinilit siyang painumin. Lahat ng insulto inabot ng mga sundalo and no one among them dared to speak. Umalis na lang silang lulugo-lugo.

Lily was the first activist-prisoner to die in prison. The PLM students tried to request the school to let Liliosa graduate and get the honor she deserved. The University President turned us down.

There is a pinoy song that commemorates our pinay martirs. I still hear this song being played in the airwaves. The names Liliosa and Lorena are part of the lyrics. One of us here may know the song. Paki-plug na lang.

let's see...main, mayfair, life, globe, times (quiapo), maxim, miramar, cinerama, dilson, gotesco, gala (recto), odeon, dalisay, avenue, opera, ever, roxan, universal, ideal, scala, pearl (rizal ave.) lyric, capitol (escolta), clover (carriedo)...i think yung original na san jacinto cafe somewhere din sa sta. cruz...meron din isang masarap na fried chicken sa may avenida carriedo area, parang mr. lee nga ba ang pangalan...?in the early 70s, la pang cubao or greenhills or quad, kaya everyone shopped sa avenida and escolta...may isang resto dito that served the best chicken pie...i think syvel's closed down after numerous strikes...sa goodearth ko nakita yung unang candy machine...dito rin ako binibilhan ni erpat ng matchbox...for books and uniforms, sa alemars, joymart, remember those weston khakis and gregg shoes?...mga second-hand books and term papers sa recto near morayta...meron pa ba ito? haven't been to u-belt in ages...wonder kung buhay pa yung pinky pops...

I think it was Scala. Sarado na rin ito. Wala na yatang buhay na sinehan along Rizal Avenue ngayon. Just three months ago, Odeon was flattened on the ground. I just don't know kung ano ang itatayo nila. Some second hand bookstores are still thriving along recto from Morayta going to Quiapo Blvd. The bookstores after that, including the beerhouse (buffalo ba yon), going to Avenida were torn down to give way to the new LRT station.

Yeah, Mr Lee is still standing. Nasa Ronquillo, the street connecting Avenida to Sta. Cruz church. Alemars was long gone, Goodwill transferred nearer Ronquillo (previously adjacent to National Bookstore. There is an eskinita na pagawaan ng mga susi at mga rubber stamp connecting avenida to Evangelista - buhay na buhay pa yan. Avenida, by the way, from Carriedo to Recto was closed to traffic a year and a half ago and was converted to a promenade. I heard lalong bumagsak ang business dito. Tambayan na yan ngayon ng mga beggars, streetpersons, and prostitutes.

The renovated Plaza Miranda is still alive at night pero wala ng debate. Twenty years back, nalipat na sa Luneta ang debatihan. Some 10 years ago, meron pang konting grupo sa Plaza Miranda na nakikipagdebatihan but they're mostly law students, fiscals, sect leader-wannabees.

the song remains the same. napanood ko sa miramar sa recto. pag pasok mo amoy damo at ang daming bote ng corex sa sahig...heh, heh, you had to be high to really enjoy it! great movie at ang haba. still have the soundtrack album, the only led zep na live. pero the song of the same title came out sa fifth album nila, houses of the holy. bigat ng riffs ni jimmy page dito.

 

dagdag ko lang ang petrified anthem, aunt irma, mother earth, sampaguita

Although I'm a bit older than you (hit college at the turn of the decade), I can't relate much to some of your musical memories. Hindi kasi ako ganuon kahilig sa music dahil puro aral lang ako. Beatles, Bee Gees, John Denver, Elton John and James Taylor lang ang halos nasasabayan ko.

Correct me about my failing memory. Parang graduate na ako and sometime in 1976-1977, I missed “The song Remains The Same” in the first class theaters so hinabol namin ng barkada in a theater along Rizal Avenue na malapit sa Opera House (forgot it pero alam kong alam nyo.) that showed double programs. Ka-double niya 'yung "A Star is Born" ni Barbra at Kris Kristofferson. And just what SallyBog have noticed, puro dulas ang inabot namin because of the corex bottles sa floor. At medyo na-high din kami dahil sa usok ng damo. Nabingi rin ako. Ang ingay kasi. Parang nanunuod ng live concerts ang mga estudyante – palakpakan for every song rendered.

And from what I heard then, ilang buwang pinalabas ang film pairs kasi ang lakas ng benta. Pabalik-balik yung mga viewers dahil nga pwedeng dumurog sa loob.

Add ko lang ang favorites ko nuon:

Love Story

Patton

Towering Inferno

Cassandra Crossing

The Exorcist

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Chinatown

Network

Rocky

Kramer VS Kramer

Carrie

The Godfather 1, 2

Apocalypse Now

Deer Hunter

The French Connection

Of course, the Bruce Lee films.

Kung my Big Boss si Bruce, may Pig Boss si Ramon Zamora.

My other Kung Fu Favorites: Shoji Karada, Alexander Fusheng.

I loved the Kung Fu series of David Caradine because of the metaphysical dialogues between the grasshopper and the master. Lahat ng fighting sequences are all in slowmo.

Resto.

Luisa and Sons sa Avenida

Ma Mon Luk sa Quiapo

Moderna sa Ronquillo (nasunog and was rebuilt)

Lahat halos ng inuman sa Avenida may banda and solo singers.

Coffee shop sa Luneta run by the mute and the deaf.

Others:

Baby Bus and De Dios Transit plying the Quaipo-Sangandaan route.

The Manila Aquarium sa may Muni-golf Link near Pamantasan (Intramuros).

Meron ding mini-casino with HI-LO sa tuktok ng Good Earth Emporium but to reach that you have to take the elevator.

Of course the one-story original Shoe Mart sa Carriedo. Nakabili pa ko ng sapatos dito in mid-80’s.

Zyvel’s Escolta. Buhay pa rin to until 1986.

Yung labas na pusod ng mga chicks, nauso yan early 70’s.

Hot Pants.

Transcendental Meditation by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Ananda Marga with the celebrated Karpov-Korchnoi championship in Baguio.

Sumuko na kamo, Metrocom ini!

The original Ukay-Ukay sa Bambang Market. Ang tawag nuon “Relief”. We bought Levi’s jeans and neckties dito during the early 70’s.

The Revival of Student Canteen. IQ-7 with Bong Barrameda dominating the field.

Six-million dollar man. Charlie’s Angels.

Dekada 70 pumutok ang mga RTW’s and Designer Apparels. Bumagsak ang tailoring business.

Bola-bola, singko isa.

Yung one-day old-chick, and itlog na nakabalot sa harinang kulay orange, sa harap ng FEU ang origin niyan.

Feati buildings – sampayan ng libu-libong komiks.

The cachupoy look patterned after John’s hair. I have sported this hairstyle from 1972 up to the present! My 17-year old son also picked up the same hairstyle. Dalawa na kami!

Baka may mali. Correct niyo na lang.

It may not have been a former resident. Most of them are the ligaw type

Yeah, a transient with no attachment to his childhood home. Or maybe a playful child na mahilig mangapit-bahay.

Three years back at 2 pm, my 9-year old daughter who was playing at the living room stood up, slowly inched her way to the adjacent dining room, and with a weary eyes peeped through the door of the kitchen. In a split second, she recoiled one step!

I sensed what was happening!

When we asked her why she acted the way she did, she told us this story.

While playing in the living room, she saw in her periphery, a boy (around 10-years old) wearing white polo shirt and black pants playing around the kitchen. From the living room, she could only see the sink-side portion of the kitchen through the open door, so the boy would be partly hidden in some moments when he's on the refrigerator-side. She's not familiar with the boy. She tried to identify the boy but when she looked straight to the kitchen, the vision of the boy was seemingly blurred. She rubbed her eyes but the vision remained hazy though she could see her sibling in the dining room well enough.

She moved slowly in tiptoe fashion, as if catching a mouse off guard, nearer to the dining room. At the time she reached the open kitchen door the boy has moved to the hidden refrigerator-side of the kitchen. As my daughter peeped through the open door, the boy mysteriously appeared near the door while moving to the sink-side!!! Scared, my daughter recoiled but she still saw the boy streaming through the kitchen sink and through the wall separating the kitchen and the garage!!! The face of the boy was no longer in the playful mood.

The boy never came back. She kept quiet until we asked her if she saw something strange.

I too have seen ghosts in the past. Every now and then, I would stay alone in the area and try to catch anything in the kitchen. It’s been three years but nothing strange has showed up again. My daughter, likewise, never got to experience the same things again.

Our subdivision sits atop a mountain and no residential community thrived in the same area before. We don't suspect the ghost as a former resident years ahead of us.

Ako may kwento.

 

I have an uncle who is considered to be the black sheep of the family.  Sa kanilang magkakapatid, siya lang ang hindi nakapagtapos ng par-aaral.  He bacame an "arbularyo".

 

Anyway, when I was still in high school, I accompanied him to Harisson Plaza to buy something.  Naturally, we talked and then at some point, the conversation turned to his craft.  I said I don't really believe in that stuff so he dared me to pick a girl among the crowd and he will make that girl follow us.

 

Nag-turo ako ng chick.  True enough.  Noong pa-uwi na kami, sumakay yung babae sa jeepney na sinakyan namin.  Pag baba namin, baba din siya at sinundan kami.  Pag dating namin sa bahay ng lola ko, napansin ko na yung babae naka-tayo sa harap at naka-tingin sa bahay namin.  That was around 2 or 3 pm.  Sumilip ako sa bintana bandang 5pm nandun pa rin siya nakatayo at nakatingin.  Gabi na nang mawala siya.

 

Mula noon, naniwala na ako na may gayuma nga.

...continuation....

Talk of evil influence.

He sold the gayuma in hundreds of pesos in the 60's (man, that's a lot of money). But the hitch there is that the buyer must get the bottle from him, bring it home without passing any miraculous church, and leave it outside the house where religious icons and images might be present.

I have not observed this but my uncle told me of this story.

Somebody from Manila ordered a potion. He made one during Holy Friday between 11am-12 noon. From the north he traveled by bus going to Manila. At the highway in Manaoag, a good 1 km from the miraculous church, the bottle in his pocket burst! Near other churches, this never happened. But Manaoag church has it's own miracles to tell.

Talk of Karma.

My uncle is old now but never got to pass the craft to his only son who at 38 years old fears the dark and never married (hindi siya bakla but has no interest in sex kaya he never has to use gayuma). Also, my uncle was once hunted by the mayor of a Benguet town after learning he was the one who concocted the gayuma used by a teenager to lure the mayor's daughter. Luckily, he escaped to Manila and stayed with us for 1 year.

In the late 70's, my uncle tried to convince me to learn some of his crafts but I turned him down because I was an urban boy busy studying my college books. During that time, I was also learning some esoteric disciplines like yoga, theosophy, Rosicrucians, etc. and I frowned on this lowly witchcraft. Of course, I have to admit that I got interested in gayuma for the "appeal" it could give me, but the difficulty of getting the different sources during the Holy Week made it hazardous for me.

Good enough, the craft is ready to be lost as my uncle is old and weak now. Gayuma is for males who lack confidence and too weak to develop themselves.

I guess a glib-tongued man doesn't need a gayuma.

Ako may kwento.

 

I have an uncle who is considered to be the black sheep of the family.  Sa kanilang magkakapatid, siya lang ang hindi nakapagtapos ng par-aaral.  He bacame an "arbularyo".

 

Anyway, when I was still in high school, I accompanied him to Harisson Plaza to buy something.  Naturally, we talked and then at some point, the conversation turned to his craft.  I said I don't really believe in that stuff so he dared me to pick a girl among the crowd and he will make that girl follow us.

 

Nag-turo ako ng chick.  True enough.  Noong pa-uwi na kami, sumakay yung babae sa jeepney na sinakyan namin.  Pag baba namin, baba din siya at sinundan kami.  Pag dating namin sa bahay ng lola ko, napansin ko na yung babae naka-tayo sa harap at naka-tingin sa bahay namin.  That was around 2 or 3 pm.  Sumilip ako sa bintana bandang 5pm nandun pa rin siya nakatayo at nakatingin.  Gabi na nang mawala siya.

 

Mula noon, naniwala na ako na may gayuma nga.

Credible Story.

Here's my own version of my uncle's prowess.

My uncle's uncle passed to him the craft of gayuma making. His stuff was made every Good Friday only. In the 60's, in a neighborhood party in the north, he chanced upon a beautiful lass in the crowd. He opened up a small bottle of gayuma, dip his finger in it, passed by the lass while subtly touching the girl with his wet finger. He went straight to his house. The girl followed him but not in her usual senses (nakatulala). But the gayuma was powerful enough that even some girls who were not touched followed suit. And that included her older sister who was my mother. He saw the tragedy so he dipped the closed gayuma bottle in water and the girls went back to their usual selves. That was my very first observation of the gayuma. That same night, he tried again and successfully lured the lass somewhere. Months later, they got married.

To be continued.....