Anonymous said... -
"Hi! From the looks of it and its background bldgs and gradient of the road, it is Session rd cor lower mabini going down carantes/harrison. The photographer's position is probably at the sidewalk fronting the old star cafe site."
- Click on the photo to give more clarity and details. (The last photo, 2010, isn't precisely at that corner, but close to it.)
- Do you recall a shop opposite the old Star Cafe, I think it was a Chinese one because they had quite a range of dikyam, champuy, butong pakwan and other goodies and sweets.
- Thanks Anon. for playing the game correctly. A few blog response entries earlier, Rudy L. mentioned that he used to traverse Carantes St. and watch the American servicemen being given shoeshines by the shoeshine boys along that street. And I recall that in the Shop class projects, some of the boys in elementary and high school used to build these shoeshine boxes out of scrap lumber. My father kept a supply of these from older construction in our garage, and the parents of some of my classmates would come, request and collect them on their behalf, because my classmates were mabain da ("Ashaym ak kadi!") to ask me directly!
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I did hang around with the shoe shine boys at 'La Patria' and 'Igloo' Cocktail lounges along Harrison Road during pre and early grade school days. The GI's feeling homesick usually invite and treat me in for an 'egg sandwich.' Hanging around with these GI's, I came to learn how to say (S*@!#$>?) expletives that I carried on in my adult life.
Along Mabini Street from the corner of Session Road to Harrison Road are stand-up bars (one of them owned by Lapid .......now I recall hanging around with the Lapid kids) and refreshment parlors which cater to travelers and after five Baguio folks who take their rum & coke, and whisky shots seriously to quench their alcoholic taste.
This street block was used as a bus depot for out-of-town buses, primarily for Dangwa and BAL. The bus depot for Pantranco and Victory Liner were located near Baden Powell Hall (was that the Gov Pack Road extension?)
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