tabouki Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 (edited) San po ang P.Leoncio exactly? san malapit? thats the street perpedicular to espana. kundiman, p;leoncio san diego then home along the riles ng tren. twas changed to e.quintos sr. st. - (former chief of police of manila resided there... Edited April 23, 2007 by tabouki Quote Link to comment
SanMigLight Posted April 27, 2007 Share Posted April 27, 2007 Plaza Goiti in Carriedo, Manila Quote Link to comment
Mandrake Posted April 27, 2007 Share Posted April 27, 2007 Neilsen Tower in Makati in the 40s and in the 70s Quote Link to comment
brownboy Posted May 1, 2007 Share Posted May 1, 2007 Fantastic post dude, really a treasure find! If you have some more, please, please keep on posting them! They bring back the good ole times, the good ole memories! :thumbsupsmiley: :cool: :mtc: Quote Link to comment
gl0w_1n_th3_dark Posted May 1, 2007 Share Posted May 1, 2007 excellent photos and info... keep 'em coming!!! Quote Link to comment
brownboy Posted May 1, 2007 Share Posted May 1, 2007 eto kilala nyo sya... :mtc: Rodolfo "BOY" Garcia :cool: Quote Link to comment
marvin_8 Posted May 1, 2007 Share Posted May 1, 2007 nice pics.... nice to have a look at the past.. keep em coming :cool: Quote Link to comment
Mandrake Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 Old CCP Complex...Old celebrity faces in b & w...kilala nyo? Quote Link to comment
willow_boy Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 Old CCP Complex...Old celebrity faces in b & w...kilala nyo? Pards, great pics! The left photo shows the Legazpi Towers in the background (the one with the red brick outline). The right photo shows the popular 50s love team of Nestor de Villa and Nida Blanca, courtesy of LVN Studios. Unfortunately, both are deceased now. An all-out effort should be taken to preserve those real old, Filipino movies. They're part of our heritage and younger and future Filipino generations should have access to them. Quote Link to comment
Mandrake Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 Pards, great pics! The left photo shows the Legazpi Towers in the background (the one with the red brick outline). The right photo shows the popular 50s love team of Nestor de Villa and Nida Blanca, courtesy of LVN Studios. Unfortunately, both are deceased now. An all-out effort should be taken to preserve those real old, Filipino movies. They're part of our heritage and younger and future Filipino generations should have access to them. Eto pa, Pareng wb...the old Congress Bldg. along Padre Burgos in Manila circa 70s. Linis pa ng Maynila nung araw at may cloud cover pa. Next is a local mag in the 70s we'd never got ourselves caught reading during our time... Quote Link to comment
lomex32 Posted July 19, 2007 Share Posted July 19, 2007 Pic of Fort Santiago by ookami_dou Quote Link to comment
lomex32 Posted July 19, 2007 Share Posted July 19, 2007 An pic of a bridge crossing Pasig River Quote Link to comment
lomex32 Posted July 19, 2007 Share Posted July 19, 2007 (edited) A photo of old Manila sidewalk vendors - No MMDA yet Edited July 19, 2007 by lomex32 Quote Link to comment
lomex32 Posted July 19, 2007 Share Posted July 19, 2007 Photo of Old Luneta, see background San Agustin church and an American Flag ... Quote Link to comment
lomex32 Posted July 19, 2007 Share Posted July 19, 2007 Magallanes Monument by ookami_dou Quote Link to comment
lomex32 Posted July 19, 2007 Share Posted July 19, 2007 Lanchas at the Pasig River Quote Link to comment
baldo Posted July 19, 2007 Share Posted July 19, 2007 i heard somewhere na next to warsaw (poland), manila sa the 2nd most destroyed city for its liberation from japan... and the destruction was inflicted by the americans mostly... well... if we could just enjoy the beauty of how the original architects wanted manila to look then, now... imagine this, tiananmen square, the washington dc area, paris, london, prague all still look very much the same as it was at the turn of the century save for minor technological improvements... here in manila, we build, destroy, build, destroy... no share values.. sayang... great pictures of the bygone glory.. baldo Quote Link to comment
lomex32 Posted July 19, 2007 Share Posted July 19, 2007 (edited) The Americans "LEND" us the "MONEY" to REBUILD our NATION ..... Come to think of it ... We are still to pay tons of DEBTS to them .... i heard somewhere na next to warsaw (poland), manila sa the 2nd most destroyed city for its liberation from japan... and the destruction was inflicted by the americans mostly... well... if we could just enjoy the beauty of how the original architects wanted manila to look then, now... imagine this, tiananmen square, the washington dc area, paris, london, prague all still look very much the same as it was at the turn of the century save for minor technological improvements... here in manila, we build, destroy, build, destroy... no share values.. sayang... great pictures of the bygone glory.. baldo Edited July 19, 2007 by lomex32 Quote Link to comment
hitman531ph Posted August 19, 2007 Share Posted August 19, 2007 More old Metro Manila photos Quote Link to comment
john2004 Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 1)RIZAL THEATRE sa Makati - Glorieta (Rustan's) na ngayon2) yung kahabaan ng Rizal Avenue (dating Avenida) mula kantong Recto Avenue hanggang Carriedo - maganda, mabango, walangkaamoy amoy na mabaho sa lahat ng moviehouses doon. PatiManila C.O.D., ALEMARS at iba pang mga magagandang mall-likestores and establishments and restaurants. Yung kahabaan dinng Recto Avenue, magaganda din mga moviehouses noon.3) yung kahabaan ng Quezon Boulevard, yun ang isa sa mga lugarna parang Makati, yung daan papuntang Quiapo church - magandangmaganda pa dati yun.4) yung buong Glorietta mula glorietta 1 hanggang glorietta 4 - lakaranlang ng mga tao noon - malawak na bangketa kumbaga. Quote Link to comment
hitman531ph Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 A night time photo of 60s/70s Rizal Avenue Ideal Theater was called EE-DEE-AL instead of its proper pronunciation by people in the area. The theater burned down in the 80s. Quote Link to comment
hellspawn Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 i heard somewhere na next to warsaw (poland), manila sa the 2nd most destroyed city for its liberation from japan... and the destruction was inflicted by the americans mostly... baldo this is often quoted and used as an example of american perfidy and lack of concern for the civilians in manila. while it's true that the damage was inflicted by the americans, (and my family lost just about everything in the battle, including the ancestral mansion in malate), research shows that: -gen. yamashita was not concerned with manila. he knew he couldn't defend it. he withdrew his forces to baguio, where he intended on holding the american advance on japan. -gen. yamashita had ordered gen. shizuo to destroy all bridges and vital installations and evacuate the city as soon as the americans arrived. -however, radm. sanji, who was entrusted with holding the city until evacuation could begin, was committed to defending it against the americans; to the last man if need be. in direct disobedience to gen. yamashita, he ordered his manila naval defense forces, about 19,000 in total, to dig in and prepare extensive defenses: minefields, trenches, barricades, and barbed wire, against the advancing fil-am troops. the majority of radm. sanji's troops were marines, these were some of the best that the empire had, and marines, no matter what country they belong to, have the same ethos. -gen. macarthur had placed severe restrictions on us and phil artillery and air support at the start of the battle to try and minimize the destruction to the city. -the japanese troops in the city turned the battle into a street-to-street and house-to-house slug fest. the policy of "no retreat, no surrender" saw japanese troops stubbornly cling to their defensive positions. because of this, the fil-am troops often had no recourse but to destroy whatever position the marines and sailors were dug into. -facing imminent defeat, the japanese went on an orgy of destruction. in what become known as "the manila massacre", the soldiers, sailors, and marines went on the rampage. rape, mutilations, massacres, and other acts of severe brutality were committed. -a battle report sent to ghq after the battle of intramuros states: "that the artillery had almost razed the ancient walled city could not be helped. to the XIV corps and the 37th division at this state of the battle for manila, american and filipino lives were understandably far more valuable than historic landmarks. the destruction stemmed from the american decision to save lives in a battle against japanese troops who had decided to sacrifice their lives as dearly as possible" while i know that historical revisionism is quite fashionable nowadays, and that it's considered chic to be anti-american in certain circles, just remember: -revisionists usually release their versions after all witnesses and participants of an event have died, so there is usually nobody left to to either validate or contradict the latest version. -the americans would never have been in the philippines at all if every filipino fought just as hard against them as they did against the spanish. instead of joining sakay, ricarte, and the other holdouts in the mountains, the majority of filipinos turned around, bent over, spread their butt cheeks and said "yes joe, f#&k me up the arse some more, we're quite happy swapping the spics for the yanks". Quote Link to comment
hitman531ph Posted September 2, 2007 Share Posted September 2, 2007 Old photos of Makati, Quezon City and Caloocan Quote Link to comment
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