Old Stone Market
The market was still under construction when this photo was taken! Early 1900's. Remember the eagle carving at the middle front-top, at the arch? In WWII, German nationals were rounded up and became prisoners of war and somehow were taken to Baguio to make escape a more difficult one. To engage their incarceration time, the Americans were made to work: one of their products was the eagle. When the market burned down, the eagle was placed in storage somewhere and then forgotten, until one worker found it stored in a men's room somewhere! This sounds like material for a good Baguio short story.
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