maxiev Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 No flyovers or underpasses (except Shaw Blvd.-EDSA intersection)back in the 1970s, The center island on EDSA was huge! Quote Link to comment
oscartamaguchiblackface Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 What taxis looked like back in the 1970's Quote Link to comment
sonnyt111 Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 What taxis looked like back in the 1970'sImagine 40 years ago, the Philippines had a car manufacturing program. Today, it's non-existent. We don't produce cars, much less aircraft. Even Indonesia, which is another 3rd world nation like the Philippines, produces aircraft. I wish the talent of the pinoy shifted from singing, beauty contests, and boxing to things that really matter. Like mass producing cars for export, aircraft manufacturing, ship building, manufacturing home appliances, etc. How I'd love to have the Philippines branded as an economic tiger like South Korea or even Taiwan. Before long, even Vietnam may overtake us. We've been totally left in the dust by China, which was, once upon a time, one of the poorest countries in Asia. Today, it is one of the richest. It's not like China doesn't have any corruption. But they kept it at bay by instituting draconian measures on those found guilty of this crime. In the past, being convicted of corruption carried a death sentence. Somehow, I don't see Estrada, Enrile, or Revilla facing the death sentence despite their extreme corrupt practices. Quote Link to comment
BudzOrg Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 Less crimes on the streets then Quote Link to comment
sonnyt111 Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 Less crimes on the streets then And less crowds, less traffic, less pollution, less corruption, less squatters, and definitely less freedom during martial law. Quote Link to comment
KayaK Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Alemars BookstoreManila C.O.D. department storeQueens SupermarketSarao Motors Just a few of companies that were market leaders in the 70s and are no longer around. Quote Link to comment
maxiev Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 The 70's was a time when basketball took a back seat to girls. I guess this is normal for any teenager, regardless of when they were born. But it was different back then. The girls were accompanied by a chaperone during dates. At times the chaperone was the maid of the girl!! Happened to me. Couldn't even ditch the chaperone because we rode in my date's van which was driven by her mom's driver!! Bummer talaga.... Kids today have more privacy during their dates. Quote Link to comment
muttley Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 Isn't there an Alemars in Glorietta 4? During the 70s, Alemars was located in that small arcade along Ayala Avenue, beside Rizal Theater. During the early 1980s, it moved to what is now known as Glorietta 3 (back then, it was called the North Mall) right beside the first McDonald's store in Makati. I seem to recall Alemars went out of business sometime in the mid-(or late-)1980s. Quote Link to comment
maxiev Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 During the 70s, Alemars was located in that small arcade along Ayala Avenue, beside Rizal Theater. During the early 1980s, it moved to what is now known as Glorietta 3 (back then, it was called the North Mall) right beside the first McDonald's store in Makati. I seem to recall Alemars went out of business sometime in the mid-(or late-)1980s.I haven't heard of Alermars in decades. Quote Link to comment
sonnyt111 Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 I haven't heard of Alermars in decades. http://www.flickr.co...licku/17209316/Yup neither have I. As I recall, its business was similar to what National Bookstore is today. Quote Link to comment
KayaK Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 There was an Alemars in Fiesta Carnival across RusTan's Cubao. It closed down in the mid-80s. Alemars was started by Dr. Ernesto Sibal as Centralbooks in 1945. He was a member of the board of regents of UP College of Law and ran his store as lawbook publisher and seller. It was his son, Jose A. Sibal, who inherited the bookstore and change the name to Alemars. Quote Link to comment
the_sentinel Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Alemar's along Quezon Avenue (between Delta and Pantranco near Heroes Hill) is the one I most frequented back then... Quote Link to comment
maxiev Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Whatever happened to Bookmark? I used to buy my school books there in the 70's. Loved the smell of new books whenever I entered Bookmark. Quote Link to comment
oscartamaguchiblackface Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 What I clearly remember about the 70's was how easy it was to park. Parking areas weren't covered and there were a lot of places one could park in the old Makati Commercial Center free of charge. I get to relive those times whenever I visit the US. Parking areas in the suburbs in the US are like what Makati parking areas used to look like in the 70's. Today Makati parking space resemble the parking spaces in large American cities such as New York City. The once suburban Makati has become a full blown metropolis and the new suburban areas can be found in places such as Sta. Rosa, Laguna. Quote Link to comment
frankie2010 Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Quad amusement park in makati.. Quote Link to comment
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