Summer Capital of the Philippines Back in the 1950's

We all know when the summer season arrives in the Philippines the number one destination where tourists and wealthy people go to break away from the hot climate during the month of March which is the start of summer in the Philippines is Baguio where the cool breeze coming from the mountain tops soothes the heat on our body while we are in metro. A cool summer destination to all the foreigners and locals out there who wants to have fun in higher grounds.
If you do not want any tan and want to be fairer this summer this is probably the best place you can go.




Photo Source: Old Manila Facebook page

Here in Escolta

This picture was taken in the late 1890’s to early 1900’s an old picture of Escolta located in Manila during the ending of Spanish regime in the Philippines and the entrance of the American regime in the country it is one of the places in the country that is remarkable when it comes to trade during that era. We all know Manila is the capital of the Philippines but what we do not know or we know little is the details that Manila had its physical beauty and the splendor of its people.

                                              An old train station in Escolta, Manila 1890's

                                                              Escolta July 4, 1898

 

Edited picture of Escolta Road 1900's

 Regina Building in Escolta, Manila 1920's

Drying the Laundry

Today drying clothes is such an easy job to do you just get an electronic dryer, plug it into the socket put the clothes inside the dryer and turn it on and the machine will dry the clothes on its own. Effortless. Unlike yesterday when moms used to call their little daughters to stand on a wood which serves a dryer back in the time when there still no electricity and when the life is not yet fast paced just like today. You must put an effort in doing the household chores because all of them must be done manual because there is no gadgets and machines that is ran by electricity before.

Classic Beauties! Part 1

Here is a compilation of some of the winners of the prestigious Miss Philippines from the first winner of the title up to the 1937 winner. All credits go to manilacarnival.blogspot.com for the photos.

 The First Winner of Miss Philippines held in the year 1926. She came from Lemery, Batangas and was born sometime in 1906. Married to Juan Nakpil a National Artist for Architecture in the Philippines she also has a daughter whose name is Edith who is also a winner for the 1955 beauty contest.

The winner of the Miss Philippines 1927 which also known as "Manila Carnival"  back then she represented her school which is Centro Escolar de Senoritas. This beautiful lady was hailed in Gumaca which is located in the province of Quezon and after her reign as a beauty queen she pursued teaching as her career.

Photo Source: manilacarnivals.blogspot.com

Gasoline Stations in the 1950's

You run out of fuel and you do not know where to go? Well in the 1950’s this is where people load up their fuel tanks whenever they ran out of gasoline as you can see in the picture it is an old picture of a cargo truck and a man riding a car who stops by the gasoline station which is Caltex as you can see in the picture a gasoline boy is filling up some gasoline on the tanker while the other gasoline boy is wiping out the dirt on the windshield of the car. As you can notice gasoline stations in 1950’s only has a pair of gasoline apparatus to fill up vehicles only two at a time unlike today each gasoline stations usually can accommodate eight to ten vehicles at the same time.

Credits to Google Images

Two Beautiful Filipina Women

                                         A picture of two beautiful tagalog sisters

I have here a picture of two tagalog sisters as you can see they are both gorgeous wearing an elegant and classic filipiniana which dates from the late 1890's which women on that era are very conservative as you can see on the picture above the clothes explains it all. Unlike today women preferred to wear mini skirts and other clothing that reveals the skin of their bodies more. Women before are also not liberated and had a more timid type of attitude for the reason that during those era which is the Spanish era they encouraged the families of us Filipinos which is called "indio" back then to teach their daughters to be more engage on household activities such as doing the household chores like cooking, washing and drying the clothes, ironing of clothes and cleaning the house as well as taking care of their younger siblings. The male gender is more dominant back then because there is no equality between male and female before.

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Photo source: The Old Manila Facebook Page

EDSA Back to the 50's

Figure 1(EDSA Late 1950's- Early 1960's)

Every been dreaming of a highway which is not surrounded by a high load of vehicles every now and then? If your answer is yes try to visit EDSA back in  the 1950's the traffic was so smooth that there is not too much vehicles on the road, it was also clean with no billboards yet maybe it has but just a little in order for the drivers not to be distracted by the images on it like today many of the billboards in the Philippines are in EDSA in which most of them depicts pictures of hot women and men that can put the driver's attention from its steering wheel. And also many of the cars back then are made of large engines like v8 just like the vintage chevrolet on the left part of the picture (figure 1) which consumes a lot of gas but its not a problem before because the price of the petroleum products a half-century ago is  not that high just like today which only the rich people can only afford to drive cars with large engines.

Figure 2 (EDSA present day)

Here is what EDSA exactly looks like in the present day there is a huge amount of traffic every day from time to time the cars are almost bumper to bumper not even on rush hours. So see the difference?