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27th July 2015 #9
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Luneta ( Rizal Park ) as it was over 100 years ago ( Paseo de Luneta dates from the 1820s ) :-
Luneta in the 1970s :-
This view from the 1960s shows Andres Bonifacio Monument, commemorating a Philippine hero of the revolutionary war against the Spanish :-
Grocery Market - also from last century, long before the advent of shopping malls :-
Jones Bridge in the late 1970s ( the bridge was named after the main author of the Philippine Autonomy Act of 2016, and reconstructed after World War II ) :-
Regent of Manila typical architecture of the 1970s, I visited this hotel, on Roxas Boulevard, in 1978. It was destroyed in a fire ( probably arson ) in the mid 1980s, with loss of 25 lives :-
Roxas Boulevard + Manila Bay as seen from the Regent Hotel in 1978 :-
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