16th POST

040909
New set of OLD & NOT-SO-OLD PIX

AVENIDA "Liberation Time 1946-1950"

Note the sign about "6X6" trucks. Military get-up was common even among civilians...

CASABLANCA NIGHTCLUB? IN OLONGAPO?

1930's or 1950's

My late aunt travelled first to SUBIC in 1935... Years later, she would follow AMERICAN troops who landed in BATANGAS in 1944-1945 (the 11TH AIRBORNE DIVISION) to ZAMBALES & OLONGAPO where she would found her business...

BURNHAM PARK

Clear view of Baguio Cathedral

MANSION HOUSE

MINES VIEW PARK 1951-1952

Man flirting with diSASTER of my two AUNTS. My mother (single then) & an unidentified man (not my father) flirting at Baguio's MVPark... Had I been there, I would have pushed a little the man to the left & he would have become a skydiver without any parachute... HISTORY would have changed & things would be completely different... And the place most likely would have been called DEAD MAN'S FALLs... or something similar... MORBID? Actually this is an excellent introduction to the Philosophy/Metaphysics of TIME... How can I do something that will affect the future when I was not yet born then?...

TRES KOTSES

The last luxury car of my late aunt: a white FORD LTD, my father's car - a light-brown FORD TAUNUS & mu brother's small but fast cream FORD ESCORT... Of course, now we do not own even a single TIRE...

TRES MUSKITEROS

Baguio - me. my sister NeneJ, & NeneMANSOR

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