those are some truly amazing photos from the 50's!

those are some truly amazing photos from the 50's!

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Rosario Street and Binondo Church from the Pasig River

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A crowd of freight boats passing the new automatic lift bridge, Binondo Canal, Manila

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New Automatic Lift Bridge, Binondo Canal, Manila

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A Bamboo Float On Binondo Canal, Manila


Filipino Flower Sellers by the Binondo Church

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Camisa Church In Binondo, Manila

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http://138.23.124.164/images/kmast2/geographic/asia/philippineislands/luzon/details/wx3514.jpg

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingAids/dynaweb/calher/miscster/figures/I0047818A.jpg
The Binondo Church and Covent, Manila

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Rosario Street and Binondo Church from the Pasig River

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A crowd of freight boats passing the new automatic lift bridge, Binondo Canal, Manila

http://138.23.124.164/images/kmast2/geographic/asia/philippineislands/luzon/details/ku24334.jpg

http://138.23.124.164/images/kmast2/geographic/asia/philippineislands/luzon/details/ku24042.jpg
New Automatic Lift Bridge, Binondo Canal, Manila

http://138.23.124.164/images/kmast2/geographic/asia/philippineislands/luzon/details/x4553.jpg
A Bamboo Float On Binondo Canal, Manila


Filipino Flower Sellers by the Binondo Church

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Camisa Church In Binondo, Manila

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http://138.23.124.164/images/kmast2/geographic/asia/philippineislands/luzon/details/wx3514.jpg

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingAids/dynaweb/calher/miscster/figures/I0047818A.jpg
The Binondo Church and Covent, Manila

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El Hogar Building (1960's)

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Waterfront on Pasig river (Escolta district is at the foot of Jones Bridge)

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El Hogar Building (1960's)

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Waterfront on Pasig river (Escolta district is at the foot of Jones Bridge)

that's nice... looks like venice

that's nice... looks like venice

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Manila, Department of Finance, Congress

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Manila, panoramic view of coastal highway

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Sta. Cruz Church

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Rizal Avenue

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Manila, Department of Finance, Congress

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Manila, panoramic view of coastal highway

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Sta. Cruz Church

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Rizal Avenue

Oh yeah, the Crystal Arcade, where you could actually 'park' your car inside...I will try to look for a pre-war photo. The 1920's to 1930's Escolta was THE heyday. :)

the crystal arcade was designed by the very talented but reclusive architect andres luna de pedro---juan luna's son with the wife he killed in madrid because of infidelity: pardo de tavera. the young andres witnessed his father's crime of passion, which in a way explains his reclusiveness.

anyway, the crystal arcade is asia's first ALL glass building.

i want to clobber the americans (for bombing it) and the japanese (for coming over.

i saw the photos years ago of this glorious structure (di pa uso digital camera noon). i cried seeing how much we lost after world war 2.

we need to move forward and bring back the lost glory of our country even if it takes a long time to get there.

Oh yeah, the Crystal Arcade, where you could actually 'park' your car inside...I will try to look for a pre-war photo. The 1920's to 1930's Escolta was THE heyday. :)

the crystal arcade was designed by the very talented but reclusive architect andres luna de pedro---juan luna's son with the wife he killed in madrid because of infidelity: pardo de tavera. the young andres witnessed his father's crime of passion, which in a way explains his reclusiveness.

anyway, the crystal arcade is asia's first ALL glass building.

i want to clobber the americans (for bombing it) and the japanese (for coming over.

i saw the photos years ago of this glorious structure (di pa uso digital camera noon). i cried seeing how much we lost after world war 2.

we need to move forward and bring back the lost glory of our country even if it takes a long time to get there.

http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/catw/image/7032320982005_183015982005fr000934l.jpg


wow. this is after the war? i can see a lot of empty spaces especially Intramuros is like almost totally levelled to the ground. Start of Manila's deterioration?

http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/catw/image/7032320982005_183015982005fr000934l.jpg


wow. this is after the war? i can see a lot of empty spaces especially Intramuros is like almost totally levelled to the ground. Start of Manila's deterioration?

^ id say 70's

^ id say 70's

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Snapshots of Filipinos in front of buildings: In front of Manila Pool Hall, 309 [?] L Street from James Earl Wood Photograph Collection Relating to Filipinos in California

'L' street? I suppose this photo was taken in Los Angles, CA.

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingAids/dynaweb/calher/wood/figures/I0016152A.jpg
Snapshots of Filipinos in front of buildings: In front of Manila Pool Hall, 309 [?] L Street from James Earl Wood Photograph Collection Relating to Filipinos in California

'L' street? I suppose this photo was taken in Los Angles, CA.

astig ang japorms parang mafioso

astig ang japorms parang mafioso

we have several book bound copies of the la solidaridad at our highschool lib...

we have several book bound copies of the la solidaridad at our highschool lib...

You didn't include El Renacimiento, Animo?
What was the last Spanish daily in Manila? Phil?

You didn't include El Renacimiento, Animo?
What was the last Spanish daily in Manila? Phil?

* godfather theme

* godfather theme

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Hotel de Oriente with its tropical Spanish arcade

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Hotel de Oriente with its tropical Spanish arcade

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I suppose this is 1960's Ayala Avenue?

My apologies to Wonderboy for crossposting but I guess the photo above (from the Makati Thread) belongs here. Cool photo Wonderboy!

http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/catw/image/7815320982005_102115982005fr000932l.jpg

I suppose this is 1960's Ayala Avenue?

My apologies to Wonderboy for crossposting but I guess the photo above (from the Makati Thread) belongs here. Cool photo Wonderboy!

^^ kind of like remember my uncle's comment in 1980. bat pa ako pupunta ng u.s. sa makati lang, dami ng buildings. imagine mo na lang yung mga tao na puro puti, para ka ng nasa ibang bansa. hihihihi.

^^ kind of like remember my uncle's comment in 1980. bat pa ako pupunta ng u.s. sa makati lang, dami ng buildings. imagine mo na lang yung mga tao na puro puti, para ka ng nasa ibang bansa. hihihihi.

ey anyone who has a picture of "Hotel Luneta"... the one along Kalaw road...??

ey anyone who has a picture of "Hotel Luneta"... the one along Kalaw road...??

..and to add, if one is in the "De La Costa Triangle" where call centers abound, the folk speak English with an American accent. :)

..and to add, if one is in the "De La Costa Triangle" where call centers abound, the folk speak English with an American accent. :)

..and to add, if one is in the "De La Costa Triangle" where call centers abound, the folk speak English with an American accent. :)


do they? they still sound Filipino to me though. :)

..and to add, if one is in the "De La Costa Triangle" where call centers abound, the folk speak English with an American accent. :)


do they? they still sound Filipino to me though. :)

ey anyone who has a picture of "Hotel Luneta"... the one along Kalaw road...??

past or present? check out Manila Tadition and Modernity Thread for the present day pics. Its there somewhere in the pages.

ey anyone who has a picture of "Hotel Luneta"... the one along Kalaw road...??

past or present? check out Manila Tadition and Modernity Thread for the present day pics. Its there somewhere in the pages.

^ nice pics...yah 70's

^ nice pics...yah 70's

preferbly the past pictures... and the interiors. I get so interested with this structure since I get to see this landmark almost everyday but never got the chance to peak on its inside. :) thanks ngapala

preferbly the past pictures... and the interiors. I get so interested with this structure since I get to see this landmark almost everyday but never got the chance to peak on its inside. :) thanks ngapala

well, a number of them. yung mga pumipilit ng american accent habang nag-o-order ng kape sa starbucks

well, a number of them. yung mga pumipilit ng american accent habang nag-o-order ng kape sa starbucks

http://138.23.124.164/images/kmast2/geographic/asia/philippineislands/luzon/details/g8997.jpg
Filipino Flower Sellers by the Binondo Church



The old pictures of the Philippines reminds me of the movie The Mission with Robert De Niro when the Jesuits were helping the native of South America build a society with buildings and others... :)

http://138.23.124.164/images/kmast2/geographic/asia/philippineislands/luzon/details/g8997.jpg
Filipino Flower Sellers by the Binondo Church



The old pictures of the Philippines reminds me of the movie The Mission with Robert De Niro when the Jesuits were helping the native of South America build a society with buildings and others... :)

^ nice pics...yah 70's

sure?? i thought it was 60s myself, looking at those Batman-type cars and the clothes and hairdos.....

^ nice pics...yah 70's

sure?? i thought it was 60s myself, looking at those Batman-type cars and the clothes and hairdos.....

View of the "Puente de España", built after the 1863 earthquake. Álbum fotográfico... End of the 19th century. BN The metallic parts of the "Puente de España" - the central arches, the balustrades and the candelabra - were imported from France, this being organized by José Echeverría, the Spanish engineer posted there.

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View of the suspension bridge in the city of Manila. Álbum fotográfico... Late 19th century. BN The suspension bridge was constructed by private enterprise which operated it on a toll basis. The project was drawn up by the French engineer M. Gabaud.

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Tutuban station on the Manila - Dagupan railway line. Revista de Obras Públicas. 1898 This had a distinct Hispano-Philippine flavour. It was built from masonry faced with brickwork at ground level, the upper storey being made of wood. It had galvanized iron roofing and an overhanging verandah, made from the same material, surrounded the building at first-floor level.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p21ima1.jpg

Bridge over the great Pampanga River, on the Manila - Dagupan line. Revista de Obras Públicas. 1898 Despite the difficulties involved in its construction resulting from problems in laying the foundations, this bridge with its lattice-work beams was one of the major achievements of Spanish engineering in the Philippines.

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View of the "Puente de España", built after the 1863 earthquake. Álbum fotográfico... End of the 19th century. BN The metallic parts of the "Puente de España" - the central arches, the balustrades and the candelabra - were imported from France, this being organized by José Echeverría, the Spanish engineer posted there.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p20ima3.jpg

View of the suspension bridge in the city of Manila. Álbum fotográfico... Late 19th century. BN The suspension bridge was constructed by private enterprise which operated it on a toll basis. The project was drawn up by the French engineer M. Gabaud.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p20ima4.jpg

Tutuban station on the Manila - Dagupan railway line. Revista de Obras Públicas. 1898 This had a distinct Hispano-Philippine flavour. It was built from masonry faced with brickwork at ground level, the upper storey being made of wood. It had galvanized iron roofing and an overhanging verandah, made from the same material, surrounded the building at first-floor level.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p21ima1.jpg

Bridge over the great Pampanga River, on the Manila - Dagupan line. Revista de Obras Públicas. 1898 Despite the difficulties involved in its construction resulting from problems in laying the foundations, this bridge with its lattice-work beams was one of the major achievements of Spanish engineering in the Philippines.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p21ima2.jpg

The Ayala bridge between Convalecencia island and the Concepción district collapsed in this year. La Ilustración Española y Americana, 1890. BN Although scarcely ten years had passed since it was opened, by 1889 the Ayala bridge was in a dangerous condition. That year, the section between the island and the San Miguel district collapsed, and only a few months later the Concepción section followed suit.

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View of the Pasig River and the stone-built "Puente Grande", before the 1863 earthquake. Fernando Brambila. Collection of drawings and engravings made on the Malaspina Expedition. 1789-1794. MN Built in the first half of the 17th century, and until the suspension bridge was opened, the "Puente Grande" was the only bridge crossing the Pasig River. In 1814, the wooden roadway was replaced with masonry arches.

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The "Punta Santiago" lighthouse (Batangas) which provided signalling in the strait between Luzon and the island of Mindanao. Magin Pers y Pers and Guillermo Brockmann. La Ilustración Española y Americana. José Fernández. 1891. BN In 1890, the new catadioptric lighthouse was opened to assist navigators by illuminating this unavoidable route leading from the south and the Pacific towards the China Sea.

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The Manila market, known as the Parian. Juan Francisco de Ravenet y Bunel. Collection of drawings and engravings made on the Malaspina Expedition. 1789-1794. MN This is the only known drawing of the Chinese quarter in Manila, before its demolition. Many of the people included in this drawing were painted individually by the artist himself.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p22ima7.jpg

The Ayala bridge between Convalecencia island and the Concepción district collapsed in this year. La Ilustración Española y Americana, 1890. BN Although scarcely ten years had passed since it was opened, by 1889 the Ayala bridge was in a dangerous condition. That year, the section between the island and the San Miguel district collapsed, and only a few months later the Concepción section followed suit.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p20ima5.jpg

View of the Pasig River and the stone-built "Puente Grande", before the 1863 earthquake. Fernando Brambila. Collection of drawings and engravings made on the Malaspina Expedition. 1789-1794. MN Built in the first half of the 17th century, and until the suspension bridge was opened, the "Puente Grande" was the only bridge crossing the Pasig River. In 1814, the wooden roadway was replaced with masonry arches.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p20ima12.jpg

The "Punta Santiago" lighthouse (Batangas) which provided signalling in the strait between Luzon and the island of Mindanao. Magin Pers y Pers and Guillermo Brockmann. La Ilustración Española y Americana. José Fernández. 1891. BN In 1890, the new catadioptric lighthouse was opened to assist navigators by illuminating this unavoidable route leading from the south and the Pacific towards the China Sea.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p20ima13.jpg

The Manila market, known as the Parian. Juan Francisco de Ravenet y Bunel. Collection of drawings and engravings made on the Malaspina Expedition. 1789-1794. MN This is the only known drawing of the Chinese quarter in Manila, before its demolition. Many of the people included in this drawing were painted individually by the artist himself.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p22ima7.jpg

Assembly room of the Santo Tomás university in Manila. Álbum de vistas de la Universidad y Colegios... 1887. BN The King, Philip IV, became the protector of this university and arranged for a papal bull to transform it from college into university, the first in Asia. In 1620, it opened its doors as a public teaching centre.

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Library of the Santo Tomás university in Manila. Álbum de vistas de la Universidad y Colegios... 1887. BN This was created at the request of the archbishop of Manila in 1610, and before long it had its own printing press which had been imported from Europe.

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Rear façade of the Manila Ordinary School for Schoolmistresses. Exposición de Madrid. 1887. BN

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Interior patio of the Manila Ordinary School for Schoolmistresses. Exposición de Madrid. 1887. BN

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Assembly room of the Santo Tomás university in Manila. Álbum de vistas de la Universidad y Colegios... 1887. BN The King, Philip IV, became the protector of this university and arranged for a papal bull to transform it from college into university, the first in Asia. In 1620, it opened its doors as a public teaching centre.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p23ima7.jpg

Library of the Santo Tomás university in Manila. Álbum de vistas de la Universidad y Colegios... 1887. BN This was created at the request of the archbishop of Manila in 1610, and before long it had its own printing press which had been imported from Europe.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p23ima8.jpg

Rear façade of the Manila Ordinary School for Schoolmistresses. Exposición de Madrid. 1887. BN

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p23ima9.jpg

Interior patio of the Manila Ordinary School for Schoolmistresses. Exposición de Madrid. 1887. BN

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p23ima10.jpg

Interior of the Manila Ordinary School for Schoolmistresses. Exposición de Madrid. 1887. BN

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San José College, Manila University. The entrance to the pharmacy and medicine classrooms. Álbum de vistas de la Universidad y Colegios... 1887. BN

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Façade of the school of San Juan de Letrán, in Manila. Álbum de vistas de la Universidad y Colegios... 1887. BN This was founded between 1830 and 1850 by Juan Gerónimo Guerrero, a friar. It belonged to the Dominican order and had a small church of the same name.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p23ima13.jpg

Façade of the San José school. Álbum de vistas de la Universidad y Colegios... 1887. BN This was founded by Philip II in 1585. It was closed during the 17th century, but in 1777 it was reopened and resumed its function as a teaching centre.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p23ima14.jpg

Samples of the country's produce. La Ilustración Española y Americana. 1888. BN Philippine trading activity spread out over the whole of its surrounding geographical area. This photograph shows a range of samples of natural and industrial products which was prepared for presentation to the Japanese government.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p25ima7.jpg

Interior of the Manila Ordinary School for Schoolmistresses. Exposición de Madrid. 1887. BN

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p23ima11.jpg

San José College, Manila University. The entrance to the pharmacy and medicine classrooms. Álbum de vistas de la Universidad y Colegios... 1887. BN

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p23ima12.jpg

Façade of the school of San Juan de Letrán, in Manila. Álbum de vistas de la Universidad y Colegios... 1887. BN This was founded between 1830 and 1850 by Juan Gerónimo Guerrero, a friar. It belonged to the Dominican order and had a small church of the same name.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p23ima13.jpg

Façade of the San José school. Álbum de vistas de la Universidad y Colegios... 1887. BN This was founded by Philip II in 1585. It was closed during the 17th century, but in 1777 it was reopened and resumed its function as a teaching centre.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p23ima14.jpg

Samples of the country's produce. La Ilustración Española y Americana. 1888. BN Philippine trading activity spread out over the whole of its surrounding geographical area. This photograph shows a range of samples of natural and industrial products which was prepared for presentation to the Japanese government.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p25ima7.jpg

Wow - so the old UST library and assembly room were really elegant!

Wow - so the old UST library and assembly room were really elegant!

"Overhanging balconies", closed off with windowpanes made from capiz, a flat translucent shell which is an essential ingredient of the Philippine style.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p18ima2.jpg

A private home in Escolta Street in Manila. Casto Olano. 1871. AHN The blending of east with west produced beautiful architecture, which became popular during the 17th century and characteristic of the unique Philippine style; Friar Francisco Alcina was to term this "mestizo" architecture.

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House in the San Miguel district of Manila. Album fotográfico... End of the 19th century. BN Private homes were built with wide, overhanging roofs which protected them from the sun, high temperatures and torrential rain.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p18ima15.jpg

View of the French inn at La Barranca, in the district of Binondo, Manila. Album fotográfico... End of the 19th century. BN During the colonial period, Binondo was the most densely-populated district of Manila; Chinese silks, Persian carpets, ivory, perfumes, spices and other oriental treasures were traded there.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p18ima16.jpg

Condition of the houses in Quiotán street in the Santa Cruz district of Manila, after the 1880 earthquake. Francisco van Camp. SHM After the 1880 earthquake, the Spanish administration passed legislation to regulate building works; these introduced new techniques and materials into the sphere of construction and modernized the way in which building works were undertaken.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p18ima10.jpg

Private home in Centeno street in the Santa Cruz district in the city of Manila. Francisco van Camp. SHM Stone-built constructions withstood fires but were helpless in the face of earth tremors. In Manila, a mixture of wood and masonry was used in construction work; roofs were large and spectacular, and overhanging verandahs closed off with "capiz" shell window-panes were characteristic of this style.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p18ima7.jpg

"Overhanging balconies", closed off with windowpanes made from capiz, a flat translucent shell which is an essential ingredient of the Philippine style.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p18ima2.jpg

A private home in Escolta Street in Manila. Casto Olano. 1871. AHN The blending of east with west produced beautiful architecture, which became popular during the 17th century and characteristic of the unique Philippine style; Friar Francisco Alcina was to term this "mestizo" architecture.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p18ima3.jpg
http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p18ima4.jpg

House in the San Miguel district of Manila. Album fotográfico... End of the 19th century. BN Private homes were built with wide, overhanging roofs which protected them from the sun, high temperatures and torrential rain.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p18ima15.jpg

View of the French inn at La Barranca, in the district of Binondo, Manila. Album fotográfico... End of the 19th century. BN During the colonial period, Binondo was the most densely-populated district of Manila; Chinese silks, Persian carpets, ivory, perfumes, spices and other oriental treasures were traded there.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p18ima16.jpg

Condition of the houses in Quiotán street in the Santa Cruz district of Manila, after the 1880 earthquake. Francisco van Camp. SHM After the 1880 earthquake, the Spanish administration passed legislation to regulate building works; these introduced new techniques and materials into the sphere of construction and modernized the way in which building works were undertaken.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p18ima10.jpg

Private home in Centeno street in the Santa Cruz district in the city of Manila. Francisco van Camp. SHM Stone-built constructions withstood fires but were helpless in the face of earth tremors. In Manila, a mixture of wood and masonry was used in construction work; roofs were large and spectacular, and overhanging verandahs closed off with "capiz" shell window-panes were characteristic of this style.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p18ima7.jpg

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingAids/dynaweb/calher/wood/figures/I0016152A.jpg
Snapshots of Filipinos in front of buildings: In front of Manila Pool Hall, 309 [?] L Street from James Earl Wood Photograph Collection Relating to Filipinos in California

'L' street? I suppose this photo was taken in Los Angles, CA.

I love the gangster look! very Al capone! :)

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingAids/dynaweb/calher/wood/figures/I0016152A.jpg
Snapshots of Filipinos in front of buildings: In front of Manila Pool Hall, 309 [?] L Street from James Earl Wood Photograph Collection Relating to Filipinos in California

'L' street? I suppose this photo was taken in Los Angles, CA.

I love the gangster look! very Al capone! :)

Access to the Ordinary School for Schoolmistresses in Manila. BN In the early 19th century, when trading and city prosperity were at their height, a new mestizo stratum of society emerged, and this was to fight for its rights.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p15ima12.jpg

Magallanes Avenue. SHM This popular avenue in Manila was the principal venue for society in the second half of the 19th century; here they combined leisure time activities with a visit to the nearby casino.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p15ima13.jpg

Exterior of the Paco cemetery. BN This cemetery was built as a general burial place for Catholics.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p15ima14.jpg

A triple-branched street lamp made by Lacarrière. 19th century. AHN José Echeverría, the engineer posted in Europe, was commissioned to supply the street lamps for illuminating the "Puente de España" over the Pasig River.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p15ima10.jpg

Project for the monument commemorating Magellan. Mid-19th century. AHN The monument commemorating Magellan was ordered to be built in 1848 by the governor, Clavería, at the top of the steps on the landing stage for passengers opposite the new Isabel II gate, which connected Intramuros with the esplanade and the "Puente de España".

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p15ima11.jpg

View of "calle del Rosario". B. Girardier. End of the 19th century. BN The façade of the upper storey of the houses is made of wood, with overhanging balconies closed off with sliding panels whose panes were made from flat, translucent shell -"capiz"-; this material flooded the interior with a warm and welcoming light.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p14ima4.jpg

"Calle de la Escolta" as seen from San Gabriel. La Ilustración Española y Americana. 1872. BN The "calle de la Escolta" is in the densely populated trading district of Binondo, and was comparable in those-day terms with the "Ramblas" district of Barcelona.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p14ima5.jpg

Access to the Ordinary School for Schoolmistresses in Manila. BN In the early 19th century, when trading and city prosperity were at their height, a new mestizo stratum of society emerged, and this was to fight for its rights.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p15ima12.jpg

Magallanes Avenue. SHM This popular avenue in Manila was the principal venue for society in the second half of the 19th century; here they combined leisure time activities with a visit to the nearby casino.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p15ima13.jpg

Exterior of the Paco cemetery. BN This cemetery was built as a general burial place for Catholics.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p15ima14.jpg

A triple-branched street lamp made by Lacarrière. 19th century. AHN José Echeverría, the engineer posted in Europe, was commissioned to supply the street lamps for illuminating the "Puente de España" over the Pasig River.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p15ima10.jpg

Project for the monument commemorating Magellan. Mid-19th century. AHN The monument commemorating Magellan was ordered to be built in 1848 by the governor, Clavería, at the top of the steps on the landing stage for passengers opposite the new Isabel II gate, which connected Intramuros with the esplanade and the "Puente de España".

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p15ima11.jpg

View of "calle del Rosario". B. Girardier. End of the 19th century. BN The façade of the upper storey of the houses is made of wood, with overhanging balconies closed off with sliding panels whose panes were made from flat, translucent shell -"capiz"-; this material flooded the interior with a warm and welcoming light.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p14ima4.jpg

"Calle de la Escolta" as seen from San Gabriel. La Ilustración Española y Americana. 1872. BN The "calle de la Escolta" is in the densely populated trading district of Binondo, and was comparable in those-day terms with the "Ramblas" district of Barcelona.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p14ima5.jpg

here are some old filipino houses that are still up.

http://www.aenet.org/photos/bahay01m.jpg

http://www.aenet.org/photos/bahay02m.jpg

http://www.aenet.org/photos/bahay04m.jpg

http://www.aenet.org/photos/bahay05m.jpg

here are some old filipino houses that are still up.

http://www.aenet.org/photos/bahay01m.jpg

http://www.aenet.org/photos/bahay02m.jpg

http://www.aenet.org/photos/bahay04m.jpg

http://www.aenet.org/photos/bahay05m.jpg

^^ this ones good... I got to see our old library in UST...

^^ this ones good... I got to see our old library in UST...

sure?? i thought it was 60s myself, looking at those Batman-type cars and the clothes and hairdos.....

haha! definitly not... I wasn't born at 60's nor during 70's, its a wild guess... :)

sure?? i thought it was 60s myself, looking at those Batman-type cars and the clothes and hairdos.....

haha! definitly not... I wasn't born at 60's nor during 70's, its a wild guess... :)

Hello 70s enthusiasts,

I have a question. Was there such a term as "jologs" in the 70s? Someone said it meant psychedelic in the 70s but at present means lower rank or crass.

I said that there is no such term in the 70s. Is that right?

Hello 70s enthusiasts,

I have a question. Was there such a term as "jologs" in the 70s? Someone said it meant psychedelic in the 70s but at present means lower rank or crass.

I said that there is no such term in the 70s. Is that right?

of course not. it there was, our parents should know. :)

of course not. it there was, our parents should know. :)

Because we are from Manila?

Because we are from Manila?

why? from what province did it originate?

why? from what province did it originate?

Manila, I guess. I never heard of it until 2 years ago. From the movie by the same title.

Manila, I guess. I never heard of it until 2 years ago. From the movie by the same title.

yea, it's just lately. in the 70's the term would have been just 'Baduy'.

yea, it's just lately. in the 70's the term would have been just 'Baduy'.

What about Jeprox?

What about Jeprox?

i thought jeprox meant 'cool' or 'ghetto'? tama ba?

laki sa layaw, laki sa layaw Jeprox! :)

i thought jeprox meant 'cool' or 'ghetto'? tama ba?

laki sa layaw, laki sa layaw Jeprox! :)

Yeah it was meant as cool.

But this new derivative Jologs which also means 'ghetto' is considered crass. I guess, it's a different viewpoint then as now. Jeprox was cool in the Philippines then while Jologs is considered crass. But are considered ghetto.

Yeah it was meant as cool.

But this new derivative Jologs which also means 'ghetto' is considered crass. I guess, it's a different viewpoint then as now. Jeprox was cool in the Philippines then while Jologs is considered crass. But are considered ghetto.

kala ko

laki sa layaw laki sa layaw betlog

jeprox pala yun :lol:

kala ko

laki sa layaw laki sa layaw betlog

jeprox pala yun :lol:

^ loco talaga tong si Tigs. :ohno:

^ loco talaga tong si Tigs. :ohno:

change in social attitudes.. and pronounced class difference.

in the 70s people were rich so ghetto meant cool.

change in social attitudes.. and pronounced class difference.

in the 70s people were rich so ghetto meant cool.

Were people rich in the 70s?

All I can say is that people aspire to be rich or feign to be rich nowadays so they look down on ghetto Pinoy. My roots is Sampaloc so I'm pretty sure, if I live there now, I would be considered Jologs. But my folks will not be considered Jeprox then.

Were people rich in the 70s?

All I can say is that people aspire to be rich or feign to be rich nowadays so they look down on ghetto Pinoy. My roots is Sampaloc so I'm pretty sure, if I live there now, I would be considered Jologs. But my folks will not be considered Jeprox then.

i thought we were less poor. :)

i thought we were less poor. :)

[QUOTE=Wonderboyhttp://collections.lib.uwm.edu/catw/image/8594218982005_275013982005fr000924l.jpg

Unfortunately, Manila Bay no longer has this shade of blue. How sad!!

[QUOTE=Wonderboyhttp://collections.lib.uwm.edu/catw/image/8594218982005_275013982005fr000924l.jpg

Unfortunately, Manila Bay no longer has this shade of blue. How sad!!

I don't think living in sampaloc alone would constitute as Jologs! If you want to be really picky about it words really change it's tone and flavour through time. So when it first came out in the late 90's (after Jolina Magdangal who was so popular with the masa specially among the younger ones), it had a more mass consumption patina to the term. nowadays it's pretty much a catch word for anything inferior to your point of view so that's basically relativism.

I don't think living in sampaloc alone would constitute as Jologs! If you want to be really picky about it words really change it's tone and flavour through time. So when it first came out in the late 90's (after Jolina Magdangal who was so popular with the masa specially among the younger ones), it had a more mass consumption patina to the term. nowadays it's pretty much a catch word for anything inferior to your point of view so that's basically relativism.

Hello 70s enthusiasts,

I have a question. Was there such a term as "jologs" in the 70s? Someone said it meant psychedelic in the 70s but at present means lower rank or crass.

I said that there is no such term in the 70s. Is that right?

I thought jologs came out of the 90s. Play on Jolina's name, also a marker of social class that at first was used pejoratively by people who thought Jolina was bakya. And then I thought that the term was reappropriated by people who claimed to be jologs as a marker of being the everyday person, as opposed to the sosy assholes who thumb their noses at "skwater", jolog and bakya culture. So the term became a point of pride.

Hello 70s enthusiasts,

I have a question. Was there such a term as "jologs" in the 70s? Someone said it meant psychedelic in the 70s but at present means lower rank or crass.

I said that there is no such term in the 70s. Is that right?

I thought jologs came out of the 90s. Play on Jolina's name, also a marker of social class that at first was used pejoratively by people who thought Jolina was bakya. And then I thought that the term was reappropriated by people who claimed to be jologs as a marker of being the everyday person, as opposed to the sosy assholes who thumb their noses at "skwater", jolog and bakya culture. So the term became a point of pride.

Unfortunately, Manila Bay no longer has this shade of blue. How sad!!

but there's a big improvement on the sides of the bay... they managed to put up stalls, kiosks, and mini bars for night people... plus they put up a lot of lights and improved the path ways along the roxas blvd.

heres a pic:

http://www.philtourism.com/bigimages/ci_PT-GC0091.jpg
(the night life)

http://a5.cpimg.com/image/47/2B/18722375-3c28-01C00150-.jpg
(the popular glowing balls! :) )

http://web.mit.edu/mitfsa/www/pictures/Philippine%20Pictures%20webpages/images/Manila%20-%20Roxas%20Boulevard.jpg
(the walk ways, stalls and everything)

Unfortunately, Manila Bay no longer has this shade of blue. How sad!!

but there's a big improvement on the sides of the bay... they managed to put up stalls, kiosks, and mini bars for night people... plus they put up a lot of lights and improved the path ways along the roxas blvd.

heres a pic:

http://www.philtourism.com/bigimages/ci_PT-GC0091.jpg
(the night life)

http://a5.cpimg.com/image/47/2B/18722375-3c28-01C00150-.jpg
(the popular glowing balls! :) )

http://web.mit.edu/mitfsa/www/pictures/Philippine%20Pictures%20webpages/images/Manila%20-%20Roxas%20Boulevard.jpg
(the walk ways, stalls and everything)

^ id say 70's
No, definitely mid-60's. The guys' pants are all still de baston. Bell bottom pants started coming out around 1968-69. I also noticed not a single one of those guys are wearing platform shoes and they all have short, pomade slicked hair.

I was born in 1958 (there, I admitted it) so I've seen the changes through this time period.

^ id say 70's
No, definitely mid-60's. The guys' pants are all still de baston. Bell bottom pants started coming out around 1968-69. I also noticed not a single one of those guys are wearing platform shoes and they all have short, pomade slicked hair.

I was born in 1958 (there, I admitted it) so I've seen the changes through this time period.

Hello 70s enthusiasts,

I have a question. Was there such a term as "jologs" in the 70s? Someone said it meant psychedelic in the 70s but at present means lower rank or crass.

I said that there is no such term in the 70s. Is that right?

Correct Lili. I was already in my late teens in the 70's and never used or heard that term.

Hello 70s enthusiasts,

I have a question. Was there such a term as "jologs" in the 70s? Someone said it meant psychedelic in the 70s but at present means lower rank or crass.

I said that there is no such term in the 70s. Is that right?

Correct Lili. I was already in my late teens in the 70's and never used or heard that term.

http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/catw/image/8594218982005_275013982005fr000924l.jpg


Parang tinatayo pa lang ang new compound ng American Embassy a!

http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/catw/image/8594218982005_275013982005fr000924l.jpg


Parang tinatayo pa lang ang new compound ng American Embassy a!

Yeah it was meant as cool.

But this new derivative Jologs which also means 'ghetto' is considered crass. I guess, it's a different viewpoint then as now. Jeprox was cool in the Philippines then while Jologs is considered crass. But are considered ghetto.

No, jeprox was the term used to describe a class of rockers in the late seventies. Back then, OPM was just coming of age. All sorts of Pinoy music in different styles was coming out. There was disco, like VST & Co., there was jazz that was pioneered by the likes of Eddie Munji III, and then we also had the new pinoy rock. This is where the jeprox lived, or as we also called them -jepoys.

Older Pinoy Rock groups like Maria cafra, Juan de la Cruz were already defunct by that time. Mike Hanopol kinda was the godfather of the jeprox, hence the song, "Laki sa Layaw". Jeprox also fuled the folk music from whick people like Florante and Freddie Aguilar emerged. those guys are jeprox.

The term was later on also a synonym for "hippie" or "koboy". But cool? No. Some people thought they baduy pa nga.

Yeah it was meant as cool.

But this new derivative Jologs which also means 'ghetto' is considered crass. I guess, it's a different viewpoint then as now. Jeprox was cool in the Philippines then while Jologs is considered crass. But are considered ghetto.

No, jeprox was the term used to describe a class of rockers in the late seventies. Back then, OPM was just coming of age. All sorts of Pinoy music in different styles was coming out. There was disco, like VST & Co., there was jazz that was pioneered by the likes of Eddie Munji III, and then we also had the new pinoy rock. This is where the jeprox lived, or as we also called them -jepoys.

Older Pinoy Rock groups like Maria cafra, Juan de la Cruz were already defunct by that time. Mike Hanopol kinda was the godfather of the jeprox, hence the song, "Laki sa Layaw". Jeprox also fuled the folk music from whick people like Florante and Freddie Aguilar emerged. those guys are jeprox.

The term was later on also a synonym for "hippie" or "koboy". But cool? No. Some people thought they baduy pa nga.

ahh hippie.

what was the term for "cool" in the 70s then?

ahh hippie.

what was the term for "cool" in the 70s then?

GROOVY!

GROOVY!

in tagalog?

in tagalog?

kembot

kembot

OH wow, the Manila Bay back in those days look so sky blue. Is this because of the film or thats how it really looked like back then?

OH wow, the Manila Bay back in those days look so sky blue. Is this because of the film or thats how it really looked like back then?

ithink both

ithink both

did you notice? back then the road is narrow? compared to now...

did you notice? back then the road is narrow? compared to now...

Superb!

Thank you for your explanations kuyageezer, bustero, sugarboy and Boybaha. I wish all these could be memorialized so we don't lose the etymology of the terms used during the 70s and the evolution of nomenclature, meanings and classifications over the years.

No, jeprox was the term used to describe a class of rockers in the late seventies. Back then, OPM was just coming of age. All sorts of Pinoy music in different styles was coming out. There was disco, like VST & Co., there was jazz that was pioneered by the likes of Eddie Munji III, and then we also had the new pinoy rock. This is where the jeprox lived, or as we also called them -jepoys.

Older Pinoy Rock groups like Maria cafra, Juan de la Cruz were already defunct by that time. Mike Hanopol kinda was the godfather of the jeprox, hence the song, "Laki sa Layaw". Jeprox also fuled the folk music from whick people like Florante and Freddie Aguilar emerged. those guys are jeprox.

The term was later on also a synonym for "hippie" or "koboy". But cool? No. Some people thought they baduy pa nga.

Wow, this is even part of Pinoy musicology. But jeprox is baduy? I remember a song "Ang Boyfriend Kong Baduy". 'Siya ay in na in ngunit out pa rin.' There was even a movie with Orestes Ojeda.

GROOVY!

Daddy groovy.

Superb!

Thank you for your explanations kuyageezer, bustero, sugarboy and Boybaha. I wish all these could be memorialized so we don't lose the etymology of the terms used during the 70s and the evolution of nomenclature, meanings and classifications over the years.

No, jeprox was the term used to describe a class of rockers in the late seventies. Back then, OPM was just coming of age. All sorts of Pinoy music in different styles was coming out. There was disco, like VST & Co., there was jazz that was pioneered by the likes of Eddie Munji III, and then we also had the new pinoy rock. This is where the jeprox lived, or as we also called them -jepoys.

Older Pinoy Rock groups like Maria cafra, Juan de la Cruz were already defunct by that time. Mike Hanopol kinda was the godfather of the jeprox, hence the song, "Laki sa Layaw". Jeprox also fuled the folk music from whick people like Florante and Freddie Aguilar emerged. those guys are jeprox.

The term was later on also a synonym for "hippie" or "koboy". But cool? No. Some people thought they baduy pa nga.

Wow, this is even part of Pinoy musicology. But jeprox is baduy? I remember a song "Ang Boyfriend Kong Baduy". 'Siya ay in na in ngunit out pa rin.' There was even a movie with Orestes Ojeda.

GROOVY!

Daddy groovy.

I really felt the skies were bluer and brighter then.

I really felt the skies were bluer and brighter then.

last time i went home i noticed the road got narrower but eventually youll get used to it and stop caring

last time i went home i noticed the road got narrower but eventually youll get used to it and stop caring

groovy-- astig!

groovy-- astig!

No, definitely mid-60's. The guys' pants are all still de baston. Bell bottom pants started coming out around 1968-69. I also noticed not a single one of those guys are wearing platform shoes and they all have short, pomade slicked hair.

I was born in 1958 (there, I admitted it) so I've seen the changes through this time period.

That makes me appreciate you all the more kuyageezer. You come in with a wealth of knowledge that you generously contribute to the forum. We love everyone here because each one has something to offer. Sometimes I feel that our more mature members feel put upon or wary of disclosure because of the strong presence of a younger generation. More representation be it by age, gender, sexual orientation, regional representation, religion, political persuasion, etc. actually adds more for the enlightenment of forum members.

So, those of the more mature set, please don't hesitate posting your pictures, too.

No, definitely mid-60's. The guys' pants are all still de baston. Bell bottom pants started coming out around 1968-69. I also noticed not a single one of those guys are wearing platform shoes and they all have short, pomade slicked hair.

I was born in 1958 (there, I admitted it) so I've seen the changes through this time period.

That makes me appreciate you all the more kuyageezer. You come in with a wealth of knowledge that you generously contribute to the forum. We love everyone here because each one has something to offer. Sometimes I feel that our more mature members feel put upon or wary of disclosure because of the strong presence of a younger generation. More representation be it by age, gender, sexual orientation, regional representation, religion, political persuasion, etc. actually adds more for the enlightenment of forum members.

So, those of the more mature set, please don't hesitate posting your pictures, too.

yea but astig came out 90s na. i wanna know the exact term in tagalog of 70s :)

yea but astig came out 90s na. i wanna know the exact term in tagalog of 70s :)

groovy is cool. I don't think there is a Tagalog equivalent.

kalog is funny cool.

groovy is cool. I don't think there is a Tagalog equivalent.

kalog is funny cool.

ayos! :)

ayos! :)

^^ true true but kalog is seldom use nowadays... :)

^^ true true but kalog is seldom use nowadays... :)

^ precisely, that was what Manileno was asking for-- the term in the 70s.

kalog is not quite the same as astig, though.

Kalog is funny.

Astig may not necessarily be funny.

I think I prefer funny cool over tough cool.

^ precisely, that was what Manileno was asking for-- the term in the 70s.

kalog is not quite the same as astig, though.

Kalog is funny.

Astig may not necessarily be funny.

I think I prefer funny cool over tough cool.

No, definitely mid-60's. The guys' pants are all still de baston. Bell bottom pants started coming out around 1968-69. I also noticed not a single one of those guys are wearing platform shoes and they all have short, pomade slicked hair.

I was born in 1958 (there, I admitted it) so I've seen the changes through this time period.

I agree--these pics definitely look like the pre-Martial Law days, di ba? If you look closely at the Roxas Blvd. shot, you can see in the background an UC Cultural Center of the Phils. So when I read the posts from our mga bata (cute thoughts) in here, and how they comment on the cleanliness and orderlinees of everything back then (o nga--mas malinis ang atmosphere noon), I can't help but blame so much on Apo Ferdie, Manya Meldy and cohorts who raped and pillaged our nation to result in today's mess. (Just my own amateur political commentary, folks)...

No, definitely mid-60's. The guys' pants are all still de baston. Bell bottom pants started coming out around 1968-69. I also noticed not a single one of those guys are wearing platform shoes and they all have short, pomade slicked hair.

I was born in 1958 (there, I admitted it) so I've seen the changes through this time period.

I agree--these pics definitely look like the pre-Martial Law days, di ba? If you look closely at the Roxas Blvd. shot, you can see in the background an UC Cultural Center of the Phils. So when I read the posts from our mga bata (cute thoughts) in here, and how they comment on the cleanliness and orderlinees of everything back then (o nga--mas malinis ang atmosphere noon), I can't help but blame so much on Apo Ferdie, Manya Meldy and cohorts who raped and pillaged our nation to result in today's mess. (Just my own amateur political commentary, folks)...

Does anyone remember the term "hebigats"?

Does anyone remember the term "hebigats"?

[QUOTE=Lili]Superb!

Thank you for your explanations kuyageezer, bustero, sugarboy and Boybaha. I wish all these could be memorialized so we don't lose the etymology of the terms used during the 70s and the evolution of nomenclature, meanings and classifications over the years.



Wow, this is even part of Pinoy musicology. But jeprox is baduy? I remember a song "Ang Boyfriend Kong Baduy". 'Siya ay in na in ngunit out pa rin.' There was even a movie with Orestes Ojeda.

Her boyfriend was probably a jeprox!!

[QUOTE=Lili]Superb!

Thank you for your explanations kuyageezer, bustero, sugarboy and Boybaha. I wish all these could be memorialized so we don't lose the etymology of the terms used during the 70s and the evolution of nomenclature, meanings and classifications over the years.



Wow, this is even part of Pinoy musicology. But jeprox is baduy? I remember a song "Ang Boyfriend Kong Baduy". 'Siya ay in na in ngunit out pa rin.' There was even a movie with Orestes Ojeda.

Her boyfriend was probably a jeprox!!

GROOVY!


Groovy was already out by the early seventies. I remember hearing that term used when I was around Grades 5, 6 and 7, which spanned 1969 - 1972. After that, laos na. It was replaced by cool.

The tagalog term? Hmmm, I would say it was "hayop", as in, "Wow, pare, hayop ang platform shoes mo." Or, "Ang hayop ng Queue disco, pare."

"Galing" was already in use those days, come to think of it. So, yeah, I would say the words "hayop' and "galing".

GROOVY!


Groovy was already out by the early seventies. I remember hearing that term used when I was around Grades 5, 6 and 7, which spanned 1969 - 1972. After that, laos na. It was replaced by cool.

The tagalog term? Hmmm, I would say it was "hayop", as in, "Wow, pare, hayop ang platform shoes mo." Or, "Ang hayop ng Queue disco, pare."

"Galing" was already in use those days, come to think of it. So, yeah, I would say the words "hayop' and "galing".

Does anyone remember the term "hebigats"?

Don't remember that. Is the word "bigat" still used, as in profound?

Does anyone remember the term "hebigats"?

Don't remember that. Is the word "bigat" still used, as in profound?

http://wallygonzalez.com/JDC-Splash.jpg

"Someone should build a shrine.
Or put up a plaque.
Or something.
People ought to know the exact spot where, a third of a century ago, the Juan dela Cruz Band invented Pinoy rock."

Click: http://wallygonzalez.com/index.html

http://wallygonzalez.com/JDC-Splash.jpg

"Someone should build a shrine.
Or put up a plaque.
Or something.
People ought to know the exact spot where, a third of a century ago, the Juan dela Cruz Band invented Pinoy rock."

Click: http://wallygonzalez.com/index.html

Hey, just posting here.These images are truly marvelous!!!Great job to you all! Anyway, if you realy wish to be captivated by Manila's past images may I recommend the book "Album: Las Islas Filipinas 1663-1888". Ok, signing off :) .

Hey, just posting here.These images are truly marvelous!!!Great job to you all! Anyway, if you realy wish to be captivated by Manila's past images may I recommend the book "Album: Las Islas Filipinas 1663-1888". Ok, signing off :) .

Hebigats. Walastik. Walandyo. Whatever.
Text by Butch Dalisay

0kay, I know, the Seventies are back (as are the Eighties, and pretty soon the Nineties); the revival bands are making a killing in the hotel lobbies, and the yucky fashions I was happy to forget - tight shirts, flared pants, outrageous colors - are back with a vengeance, not just worn but flaunted by the likes of my daughter and her friends.

I look back to the Seventies with a mixture of fondness and deep distress. It was, after all, the time when I grew up really fast; I was 16 when the decade opened, wet in the cars and raring to get out of high school, and 26 when it closed, married, with a wife, a child, and a job, and just returned from my first trip abroad. In the interim, I found myself getting imprisoned (remember, uhm, martial law?), finding better uses for bedtime than counting sheep (definitely more pleasant than prison), acquiring a taste for bee, and the nightlife (almost as good as the foregoing), and earning my own money (an absolute necessity for the foregoing).

As I often tell my students, the great thing about the past - and the reason why we tend to love it so much is that it's over. We don't know how, but we survived it, playing up the good and exaggerating even the bad in joyous self-congratulation. I, for one, am immensely relieved to have survived not only Mr. Marcos and his minions, but also platform shoes, Afro haircuts, double- knit, fat wide ties, and the bimbo salsa.

Actually, that's not quite right. I have to confess an abiding affection for Tony Manero, and Saturday Night Fever, for Three's Company (you know who, among the three), and for restaurants that gave you change for your Php20 after a satisfying meal.

Like any decade, the Seventies had its ups and down - so evenly, perhaps, that I still can't quite decide whether to love it or just leave it. In particular, five souvenirs from that period stick in my mind (and occupy space, somewhere in some long unopened box in the house) - a kind of mini-museum to dubious tastes and intentions, from the point of view of 2003; but if I had to worry right now what I'd think of myself in 2033, can I possibly get anything done? Now, remember these:

•Like most wannabe Charles Atlases, I once owned a Bullworker - a fat tube of chromed metal about as high as yew waist, on either side of which was attached a thick rubberized cable. The idea was to hold the thing by the cables, and then to pull the left cable in the general direction of Paris and the right cable toward Hawaii This was supposed to turn 86-pound weaklings into well, 86-pound Samsons, albeit Samsons with an hernia. * Sometime in the Seventies, someone decided that it was okay for big, sideburned macho men to carry handbags, and so the "clutch" bag was born, instantly doubling the market for happy bagmakers and teaching us another use for the left hand (or right, depending on your preference). The clutch bag contained You]- Wallet (to keep your butt trim and sexy in those hip- hugging polyester pants), your diary (or rather, your "liquid medium, carbon-based PDA"), your Cross ballpen, your Champion or Philip Morris cigarettes, your fake Dunhill lighter, your comb (the one that looked like a meat cleaver), your Brut cologne or Jovan Musk Oil, and your chewing gum (and maybe some other rubbery thing as well).

•And since 98% of the global population was smoking in the Seventies, with 76% coughing their guts out in the morning, someone else saw muchos pesos in marketing a fashion accessory masquerading as a health aid, a tube of plastic called Tar-Gard. It made smoking not only acceptable but chic - the closest we kanto boys could get to feeling like James Bond.

•And as long as you were going to bring up that Tar-Gard to your mouth with two fingers, you had to have something suitably flashy on your wrist nothing less than the latest and greatest digital watch, "greatest" meaning a grapefruit-sized chunk of chrome on a strap, flashing big red letters in a black glass window.

•To complete the effect, you had to hide that magnetic stare - not behind Wavfarers, or Oaklevs, or Armanis and other cool lunettes yet to be invented or properly appreciated, but behind, ves, Polaroids! They looked like - and probably Avere plastic cut- outs, but they felt, uhm, sophisticated in that scientific way.

Hmmm, suddenly I feet like putting on a black shirt and a white suit, pointing one hand to the floor and another to the ceiling.

Hebigats. Walastik. Walandyo. Whatever.
Text by Butch Dalisay

0kay, I know, the Seventies are back (as are the Eighties, and pretty soon the Nineties); the revival bands are making a killing in the hotel lobbies, and the yucky fashions I was happy to forget - tight shirts, flared pants, outrageous colors - are back with a vengeance, not just worn but flaunted by the likes of my daughter and her friends.

I look back to the Seventies with a mixture of fondness and deep distress. It was, after all, the time when I grew up really fast; I was 16 when the decade opened, wet in the cars and raring to get out of high school, and 26 when it closed, married, with a wife, a child, and a job, and just returned from my first trip abroad. In the interim, I found myself getting imprisoned (remember, uhm, martial law?), finding better uses for bedtime than counting sheep (definitely more pleasant than prison), acquiring a taste for bee, and the nightlife (almost as good as the foregoing), and earning my own money (an absolute necessity for the foregoing).

As I often tell my students, the great thing about the past - and the reason why we tend to love it so much is that it's over. We don't know how, but we survived it, playing up the good and exaggerating even the bad in joyous self-congratulation. I, for one, am immensely relieved to have survived not only Mr. Marcos and his minions, but also platform shoes, Afro haircuts, double- knit, fat wide ties, and the bimbo salsa.

Actually, that's not quite right. I have to confess an abiding affection for Tony Manero, and Saturday Night Fever, for Three's Company (you know who, among the three), and for restaurants that gave you change for your Php20 after a satisfying meal.

Like any decade, the Seventies had its ups and down - so evenly, perhaps, that I still can't quite decide whether to love it or just leave it. In particular, five souvenirs from that period stick in my mind (and occupy space, somewhere in some long unopened box in the house) - a kind of mini-museum to dubious tastes and intentions, from the point of view of 2003; but if I had to worry right now what I'd think of myself in 2033, can I possibly get anything done? Now, remember these:

•Like most wannabe Charles Atlases, I once owned a Bullworker - a fat tube of chromed metal about as high as yew waist, on either side of which was attached a thick rubberized cable. The idea was to hold the thing by the cables, and then to pull the left cable in the general direction of Paris and the right cable toward Hawaii This was supposed to turn 86-pound weaklings into well, 86-pound Samsons, albeit Samsons with an hernia. * Sometime in the Seventies, someone decided that it was okay for big, sideburned macho men to carry handbags, and so the "clutch" bag was born, instantly doubling the market for happy bagmakers and teaching us another use for the left hand (or right, depending on your preference). The clutch bag contained You]- Wallet (to keep your butt trim and sexy in those hip- hugging polyester pants), your diary (or rather, your "liquid medium, carbon-based PDA"), your Cross ballpen, your Champion or Philip Morris cigarettes, your fake Dunhill lighter, your comb (the one that looked like a meat cleaver), your Brut cologne or Jovan Musk Oil, and your chewing gum (and maybe some other rubbery thing as well).

•And since 98% of the global population was smoking in the Seventies, with 76% coughing their guts out in the morning, someone else saw muchos pesos in marketing a fashion accessory masquerading as a health aid, a tube of plastic called Tar-Gard. It made smoking not only acceptable but chic - the closest we kanto boys could get to feeling like James Bond.

•And as long as you were going to bring up that Tar-Gard to your mouth with two fingers, you had to have something suitably flashy on your wrist nothing less than the latest and greatest digital watch, "greatest" meaning a grapefruit-sized chunk of chrome on a strap, flashing big red letters in a black glass window.

•To complete the effect, you had to hide that magnetic stare - not behind Wavfarers, or Oaklevs, or Armanis and other cool lunettes yet to be invented or properly appreciated, but behind, ves, Polaroids! They looked like - and probably Avere plastic cut- outs, but they felt, uhm, sophisticated in that scientific way.

Hmmm, suddenly I feet like putting on a black shirt and a white suit, pointing one hand to the floor and another to the ceiling.

Oh great piece Sugarboy, from the illustrious Butch Dalisay nonetheless. :)

Oh great piece Sugarboy, from the illustrious Butch Dalisay nonetheless. :)

For some strange reason, I found myself wandering in my high school alma mater about 2 mos. ago and, lo and behold, I found a poster announcing that Butch Dalisay was slated for a talk to the Creative Writing Club that same afternoon. With much time to spare, I stayed on to hear Butch.

It was really fun hearing him talk to the students (who were young enough to be our children) about the way things were in the seventies. To the students, this was a world apart. To the silent observer in me, it was a blast of a stroll down memory lane. :)

For some strange reason, I found myself wandering in my high school alma mater about 2 mos. ago and, lo and behold, I found a poster announcing that Butch Dalisay was slated for a talk to the Creative Writing Club that same afternoon. With much time to spare, I stayed on to hear Butch.

It was really fun hearing him talk to the students (who were young enough to be our children) about the way things were in the seventies. To the students, this was a world apart. To the silent observer in me, it was a blast of a stroll down memory lane. :)

Another treat. Click here for Amparo Munoz (http://www.geocities.com/pageantmania2000a/1974Amparo.html) and here for Margie Moran (http://www.geocities.com/pageantmania2000a/1973Margarita.html) and here for Gloria Diaz. (http://www.geocities.com/pageantmania2000a/1969Gloria.html)

Another treat. Click here for Amparo Munoz (http://www.geocities.com/pageantmania2000a/1974Amparo.html) and here for Margie Moran (http://www.geocities.com/pageantmania2000a/1973Margarita.html) and here for Gloria Diaz. (http://www.geocities.com/pageantmania2000a/1969Gloria.html)

here are some old filipino houses that are still up.

http://www.aenet.org/photos/bahay01m.jpg

http://www.aenet.org/photos/bahay02m.jpg

http://www.aenet.org/photos/bahay04m.jpg

http://www.aenet.org/photos/bahay05m.jpg

It's good that those are still up although they are soon becoming dilapidated. Hopefully they get preserved for their uniquely Hispano-Filipino architectural style of that period.

MORE GREAT FINDS BY ANIMO!
The Manila market, known as the Parian. Juan Francisco de Ravenet y Bunel. Collection of drawings and engravings made on the Malaspina Expedition. 1789-1794. MN This is the only known drawing of the Chinese quarter in Manila, before its demolition. Many of the people included in this drawing were painted individually by the artist himself.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p22ima7.jpg

The structure in the middle, is that a common town well? I remember my late grandma told me that her father met her mother beside a town well (while she was nag-iigib ng tubig). She had cataract and her eye was starting to get blind. My greatgrandfather, being a Cirujano Medico, inspected her eye and they soon fell in love.

"Overhanging balconies", closed off with windowpanes made from capiz, a flat translucent shell which is an essential ingredient of the Philippine style.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p18ima2.jpg

We used to have window panes like those. See the panels below, they open up to let the air in. I remember "nagpapahangin sa bintana" while whoever was supposed to look after me was "nakadungaw sa bintana". Those capiz window panes though can become extremely dusty and grimy. I usually get very dirty hands while I was playing hide and seek behind thoses panes after they put in extended grills on top of it.

A private home in Escolta Street in Manila. Casto Olano. 1871. AHN The blending of east with west produced beautiful architecture, which became popular during the 17th century and characteristic of the unique Philippine style; Friar Francisco Alcina was to term this "mestizo" architecture.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p18ima3.jpg
http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p18ima4.jpg

Beautiful. Based on earlier pictures I saw, the structure of our Manila house looked similar but was reconstructed to become more modern, meaning iron roofs, steel, wood and cement. The had to fireproof the walls since there were a lot of fires then and wooden houses easily got razed to the ground.
[QUOTE=Animo]Access to the Ordinary School for Schoolmistresses in Manila. BN In the early 19th century, when trading and city prosperity were at their height, a new mestizo stratum of society emerged, and this was to fight for its rights.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p15ima12.jpg

What is this school now? Centro Escolar? Philippine Teachers' College?

here are some old filipino houses that are still up.

http://www.aenet.org/photos/bahay01m.jpg

http://www.aenet.org/photos/bahay02m.jpg

http://www.aenet.org/photos/bahay04m.jpg

http://www.aenet.org/photos/bahay05m.jpg

It's good that those are still up although they are soon becoming dilapidated. Hopefully they get preserved for their uniquely Hispano-Filipino architectural style of that period.

MORE GREAT FINDS BY ANIMO!
The Manila market, known as the Parian. Juan Francisco de Ravenet y Bunel. Collection of drawings and engravings made on the Malaspina Expedition. 1789-1794. MN This is the only known drawing of the Chinese quarter in Manila, before its demolition. Many of the people included in this drawing were painted individually by the artist himself.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p22ima7.jpg

The structure in the middle, is that a common town well? I remember my late grandma told me that her father met her mother beside a town well (while she was nag-iigib ng tubig). She had cataract and her eye was starting to get blind. My greatgrandfather, being a Cirujano Medico, inspected her eye and they soon fell in love.

"Overhanging balconies", closed off with windowpanes made from capiz, a flat translucent shell which is an essential ingredient of the Philippine style.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p18ima2.jpg

We used to have window panes like those. See the panels below, they open up to let the air in. I remember "nagpapahangin sa bintana" while whoever was supposed to look after me was "nakadungaw sa bintana". Those capiz window panes though can become extremely dusty and grimy. I usually get very dirty hands while I was playing hide and seek behind thoses panes after they put in extended grills on top of it.

A private home in Escolta Street in Manila. Casto Olano. 1871. AHN The blending of east with west produced beautiful architecture, which became popular during the 17th century and characteristic of the unique Philippine style; Friar Francisco Alcina was to term this "mestizo" architecture.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p18ima3.jpg
http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p18ima4.jpg

Beautiful. Based on earlier pictures I saw, the structure of our Manila house looked similar but was reconstructed to become more modern, meaning iron roofs, steel, wood and cement. The had to fireproof the walls since there were a lot of fires then and wooden houses easily got razed to the ground.
[QUOTE=Animo]Access to the Ordinary School for Schoolmistresses in Manila. BN In the early 19th century, when trading and city prosperity were at their height, a new mestizo stratum of society emerged, and this was to fight for its rights.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p15ima12.jpg

What is this school now? Centro Escolar? Philippine Teachers' College?

For some strange reason, I found myself wandering in my high school alma mater about 2 mos. ago and, lo and behold, I found a poster announcing that Butch Dalisay was slated for a talk to the Creative Writing Club that same afternoon. With much time to spare, I stayed on to hear Butch.

It was really fun hearing him talk to the students (who were young enough to be our children) about the way things were in the seventies. To the students, this was a world apart. To the silent observer in me, it was a blast of a stroll down memory lane. :)

I hope you got to talk and share your experiences too during the Q and A. :)

For some strange reason, I found myself wandering in my high school alma mater about 2 mos. ago and, lo and behold, I found a poster announcing that Butch Dalisay was slated for a talk to the Creative Writing Club that same afternoon. With much time to spare, I stayed on to hear Butch.

It was really fun hearing him talk to the students (who were young enough to be our children) about the way things were in the seventies. To the students, this was a world apart. To the silent observer in me, it was a blast of a stroll down memory lane. :)

I hope you got to talk and share your experiences too during the Q and A. :)

Another treat. Click here for Amparo Munoz (http://www.geocities.com/pageantmania2000a/1974Amparo.html) and here for Margie Moran (http://www.geocities.com/pageantmania2000a/1973Margarita.html) and here for Gloria Diaz. (http://www.geocities.com/pageantmania2000a/1969Gloria.html)

Amparo Munoz of Spain was a real beauty. She deserved to be Miss Universe then but she wasted away the acclaim by appearing in sleazy films later on. How come I thought she had died of AIDS? This is not true, isn't it?

Another treat. Click here for Amparo Munoz (http://www.geocities.com/pageantmania2000a/1974Amparo.html) and here for Margie Moran (http://www.geocities.com/pageantmania2000a/1973Margarita.html) and here for Gloria Diaz. (http://www.geocities.com/pageantmania2000a/1969Gloria.html)

Amparo Munoz of Spain was a real beauty. She deserved to be Miss Universe then but she wasted away the acclaim by appearing in sleazy films later on. How come I thought she had died of AIDS? This is not true, isn't it?

The Early Days

DZAQ-TV3 started out on a four-hour a day schedule, from six to ten in the evening.Although ABS was able to round up fifty-two advertisers for the premier telecast, selling spots for regular programming became difficult. This was because advertisers still felt that it was more cost efficient to buy radio ad spots, since radio reaches more homes than television did at that time.

At that time, television sets were expensive and television reception depended on electrical power that was not always available. “The high prices of sets were due partly to government taxation. Whereas radios and phonographs were taxed 7 per cent at the plants, television sets were taxed as high as 30 per cent.” (P-Lent, 96)

The cost of television sets was a major drawback for the newborn industry. “In the late 1950s, a TV set sold for around $600 or P1,200, a princely sum and the equivalent of a few month’s salary when the minimum wage was P4 a day and the exchange rate P2:$1. It cost less to buy an automobile.” (Pinoy, 65)

The programs being telecast at that time were mostly borrowed films from the foreign embassies, imported old cowboy movies, and actual coverage of a variety of events. These ran out so fast so stage plays from theater were transported to television. This paved the way for Father James Reuter, a Jesuit who was not only active in the academe as a drama coach but also had radio and television training in the United States. He produced the first play on television in 1953, less than a month after the first telecast. It was “Cyrano de Bergerac,” a full-length play that was three hours long. Father Reuter recalls: “Nobody paid anybody. We didn’t pay them and they didn’t pay us…. I had enough entry into the schools so that all my talents were students.”

Father Reuter produced literary classics on television, which gave birth to a generation of performers known as “Reuter babies.”

Since everything was done live in the early days of studio production, performers were under tremendous pressure. The studio was a hothouse of bloopers and accidents waiting to happen; cameras entangled in wires were unable to track, and viewers’ imaginations were unnecessarily taxed as actors who had been previously murdered would forget they were on camera, get up, and stroll out of a scene. (Pinoy, 74)

In the beginning, locally produced shows were at a premium because of high production costs. American syndicates took advantage of the situation and sold mediocre serials to Philippine networks for as much as $125-$150 a show. On the other hand, “[a] locally produced, half-hour program cost $500 in 1959 -- a huge sum of money for any advertiser.” (P-Lent, 97)

To entice advertisers, “simulcasts” --- or simultaneous airing of a program over the radio and the television station --- were offered as a promotional gimmick. Many popular radio shows like “Tawag ng Tanghalan”; Kuwentong Kutsero” and “Student Canteen” started their life on TV this way. Their popularity grew as TV shows later on because their listeners had the added pleasure of seeing their favorite personalities in their own living rooms. (KBP, 155)

Finally, the problem of prohibitive television set cost was solved with the establishment of such local outfits as Radiowealth, Carlsound and Rehco. These set up assembly plants which cut the prices of television sets by as much as one-half or two-thirds.

In 1955, Radiowealth, Inc. began manufacturing television sets. Radiowealth founder, Domingo M. Guevarra, made television sets available to as many families as possible. He began by distributing television sets on the market when he got exclusive distributorship for Motorola radio and television sets in 1946. Soon, he imported TV parts, assembled them in the Philippines and sold the branded product as Radiowealth-Motorola. He even sent his eldest son, Petronilo, abroad to study the manufacture of electronic components.

Ownership of a television set became a status symbol. In those days, it was a spectacle to have a TV set delivered to one’s home. As the entire neighborhood watched, it took at least three men to carry the huge cabinet with the heavy tube that would bring magic into the household. Newly recovered from the trauma of World War II, the Filipino consumers were eager to treat themselves to something new and exciting. (Pinoy, 66)

The number of TV receivers per 1,000 Filipinos jumped from 3.5 in 1953 to 38 in 1960. In 1962, the television set was the most salable appliance in urban areas, with the electric iron a far second…. By 1969, Radiowealth was making color tubes; by 1971, the Philippines, through Radiowealth, had become the third country in the world to manufacture color TV sets. (Pinoy, 79)

Television was called the new obsession of Filipinos and was blamed for making Filipinos lose much needed sleep and for putting them shamefully behind their electric bills. “It was also accused of breeding envy and discontent since most people could not afford a set.” (B-Lent, 178) It was blamed for everything, from the deterioration of family conversations to epileptic seizures in children.

In July 1967, the hysteria peaked. The United States Public Health Service reported that some 90,000 TV sets sold between September 1, 1966 and May 27, 1967 were actually leaking radiation and thus might pose a national health hazard. The appliances, identified as 18-, 20-, 22-, and 23-inch color sets with tube serial numbers 6EF4 and 6LO6, had been manufactured by the General Electric (GE) Company. (Pinoy, 86)

There was no doubt that television had changed the lifestyle of Filipinos. In its early days, televiewing was a community affair. “Entire barrios gathered around the set, enshrined in the home of some lucky native who benevolently kept doors and windows open.” (Pinoy, 86)

Filipinos had become so attached to their television sets that the only time one could expect reactions from televiewers was during commercials. Television now competes with the school, the home, and the church in influencing the Filipino people.

In 1958, two developments indicated that television could survive in spite of its problems. First of all, the high taxes previously imposed on canned television shows were removed. This made U.S. shows less expensive than live shows. Second, another network was set up in April of that year. This was the Chronicle Broadcasting Network, established as a radio medium in 1956 by businessmen Eugenio and Fernando Lopez. (P-Lent, 96)

In the same year, the Chronicle Broadcasting Network (CBN), owned by Lopez brothers, Eugenio Sr. and Fernando, bought ABS from Judge Antonio Quirino. Quirino was caught by surprise by the Lopezes’ interest. The price paid was reportedly many times more than what Quirino thought the channel was worth --- and more than what he thought the station would ever earn. (Pinoy, 66)

Eugenio “Eñing” Lopez Sr. called Judge Quirino to his house for breakfast and ABS was bought under a contract written on a table napkin. The Lopes brothers merged these two companies under the name Bolinao Electronics Corporation, the former name of ABS. Meanwhile, Eugenio “Geny” Lopez Jr., the eldest son of Lopez Sr. had hands-on-education under two pioneers who were running ABS for Quirino: Slim Chaney and James Lindenberg.

With the establishment of DZXL-TV Channel 9 on April 19, 1958, the Lopez brothers controlled both television channels in the archipelago.
In those days, there was not that much money in TV, and not a lot of equipment which the company could initially afford. “Slim would tie together a transmitter with bamboo strips and rags,” recalled Lopez Jr. “It worked, and you didn’t argue.” (Pinoy, 54)

As ABS continued operating, Philippine television started to improve. “Evidence that the television audience was growing were the groups of people who crowded around the appliance shops whenever the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball games were aired.” (KPB, 155)

Rapidly, other television stations jumped in. By the early 60s, these new [VHF] television stations opened: DZBB-TV Channel 7, established on October 29, 1961 by the Republic Broadcasting System (RBS), owned by Robert “Uncle Bob” Stewart; DZTM-TV Channel 5, established in 1962 by the Associated Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), owned by the Roces family, the publisher of The Manila Times; DZTV Channel 13 in 1977, run by Inter-Island Broadcasting Corporation (IBC), owned by Andres Soriano; and DZRH-TV Channel 11 of Manila Broadcasting Company (MBC), owned by Manuel Elizalde. Even the government-owned Philippine Broadcast Service launched its television station, Channel 10 in 1961. It was financed by government subsidy but had a short life because of channel frequency allocation.

When the other channels were established, competition became intense. The early stations cornered the American television film market. DZAQ-TV Channel 3 received National Broadcasting Company; DZBB-TV Channel 7 obtained American Broadcasting Company; and DZTV Channel 13, Columbia Broadcasting System.

In a struggle to get the best shows from abroad, these channels became victims of the American networks. Philippine channels were asked to pay $125-$150 for each half-hour U.S. show, and were allowed to show them once. (P-Lent, 97)

If politics jumpstarted the Philippine television, soap kept the medium running. Procter and Gamble, the American manufacturing company that produced Ivory soap and Tide laundry detergent, nurtured broadcasting by introducing a revolutionary genre frothing with melodrama: the appropriately-named soap opera. (Pinoy, 66)

Sponsorship on television, at first, came only in the form of block timing, with companies buying chunks of time slots from the networks. Depending on their budget and their target audience, they dictated what time slot they wanted to bring in. Thus, programming and production were largely in the hands of advertisers; networks were merely the custodians of airtime. (Pinoy, 71)

Robert “Uncle Bob” Stewart was the first to sell “coop spots.” Sponsors or small businessmen could now buy portions of a program in the form of 60-second commercials. “He approached companies without the resources to buy block time and sponsor entire shows and offered them smaller, more affordable packages within programs. Thus he pioneered the concept of segment and portion buys that are so popular today.” (Pinoy, 57) “In the ultimate promotion, Stewart even threw himself in as a commercial talent for free, and his live endorsements became gems of spontaneous entertainment in themselves.” (Pinoy, 71)

Bob Stewart, the man behind RBS Channel 7 had a special place in the hearts of a generation of kids. “For children growing up in the ‘50s and ‘60s, Uncle Bob’s Lucky Seven Club was the club to join in.” (Pinoy, 57)

In the beginning, the people who were creating Philippine TV had to make do with very little --- minuscule budgets, tiny studios, weak signals, and complicated cameras which technicians couldn’t even begin to operate. After all, the first TV production crews had been transplanted from radio. (Pinoy, 74)

“Mistakes were definitely the order of the day,” recalls Stewart. “We had two cameras, both of them second-hand. And since we had almost no experience in TV, we often had no idea which one was on the air!” The only way to learn television then was by trial and error. In fact, the best cameraman in ABS started out as the driver of Eugenio “Geny” Lopez Jr.

Lack of finances is largely responsible for the poor quality of live television. There was not enough money to pay talent fees, to buy equipment and to train studio personnel. Another reason why live shows slowly matured is the prevalence of unqualified producers.

In 1960, the Philippine Association of National Advertisers acknowledged television as one of the most effective and potent media for advertising. In fact, it was only in the 60s that television commercials came into use. The first television advertising contract in the country was signed for Tawag ng Tanghalan, handled by J. Walter Thompson for Procter and Gamble.

As the television industry matured, lines were more firmly drawn between advertisers and network owners. Programmers now had to prove to advertisers that the station-produced programs were being watched. Thus was the ratings game born. (Pinoy, 74)

In 1961, instructional TV was first attempted by the National Science Development Board through a weekly course in physics, Continental Classroom. In the same year, Fr. James Reuter produced his three-times-a-week show, Education on TV over Channel 9. It featured Fr. Horacio de la Costa, S.J., lecturing on history and Fernando Zobel, discussing art.

Interest generated by public organizations, business firms, and educational institutions developed the National Science Development Board’s televised college course, “Physics in the Atomic Age,” in 1961.

Three years later, on July 1964, the Ateneo Center for Educational Television (ETV) began operation. It was a closed-circuit television project for elementary and high school students of six receiving schools including Ateneo de Manila University and Maryknoll College (now called Miriam College). The now defunct Center for ETV had its own studio and first-rate equipment. It was so advanced that even commercial stations like ABS-CBN occasionally borrowed cameras.

On February 1, 1967, the corporate name of BEC was changed to ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation. This was the formal merger of ABS and CBN. Also, during this year, Radiowealth pioneered in the production of 19-, 21- and 25-inch models of color TV sets, which cost about two thousand five hundred pesos. Television was well on its way to becoming a mass communication tool. Moreover, it was favored by advertisers like Procter and Gamble, Philippine Refining Company, Colgate-Palmolive, Del Rosario Brothers and Caltex Philippines.

In 1969, Filipinos got to watch live the television coverage of the Apollo 11 historic landing. It was the first telecast via satellite in the country and the first in color. “Telecasts from the moon relayed back to earth were captured on Philippine TV sets by the satellite network. Three networks tied up for the project: Channels 5, 7, and 13.” (P-Lent, 106)

It was also in 1969 when Radio Philippines Network branched out into television with Channel 9 in Manila. It was RPN-9 who introduced the longest running and consistently rating sitcom, John en Marsha, which introduced the First Family of Philippine television, the Puruntongs. It was created by Ading Fernando and it starred Dolphy and Nida Blanca. John en Marsha is nationally recognized as one of the greatest Filipino sitcoms of all time. It had millions of loyal fans.

Among the top rated programs in 1966 were: The Nida-Nestor Show, Buhay Artista, and Pancho Loves Tita. Another local show that has had a prevailing top rating is Tawag ng Tanghalan, the amateur singing contest hosted by Lopito and Patsy. During the early years of television, it was a medium for the actor and the performer.

“By the late 60s, Filipinos were craving for steady doses of reality in the form of news and public affairs programs.” (Pinoy, 92) The news pioneers were The Big News on ABC Channel 5 and The World Tonight on ABS-CBN Channel 2. Jose Mari Velez of The Big News brought news broadcasting to new heights.

The Martial Law Years

The Marcos administration was continually attacked in news programs but the late dictator did not take it sitting down. He realized that only absolute control of this medium would stop it.
On September 21, 1972, Ferdinand Marcos declared Martial Law. It was probably the worst time for Philippine television and the scariest moment on TV. Media were cited as a prime enemy of the administration and the target of Marcos forces. The first letter of instruction issued by Marcos ordered the take over of all media firms to prevent “communist” propaganda. Troops entered radio and television stations, sealed them, and placed under military control. All media outlets that were critical of the Marcos regime were shut down. “Within a few hours, the government had wiped out the entire news media of the Philippines, except for [those that are pro-Marcos].” (B-Lent, 179) GTV Channel 4, the government channel, was taken over by the Office of Press Secretary Francisco Tatad and the National Media Production Center of Gregorio Cendaña.
The Filipinos’ first experience of television under martial law began with a blank screen, punctuated only by appearances of President Marcos and Press Secretary Francisco Tatad reading edict after edict. It was a portent of much more chilling realities to come. (Pinoy, 93)
Of the seven Manila-based stations existing in 1972, President Ferdinand Marcos closed all but three; channels 9 and 13 were eventually controlled by [then Ambassador] Roberto Benedicto, and Bob Stewart’s Channel 7 was later allowed to operate with limited three-month permits. (Pinoy, 95)
ABS-CBN was seized from the Lopez family, and Eugenio Lopez Jr., then president of ABS-CBN, was imprisoned.
By the latter part of 1973, Channel 7 was in the red and was forced to sell 70% of the business to a group of investors, who changed the name from RBS to Greater Manila Area (GMA) Radio Television Arts.
Stewart was forced to cede majority control to Gilberto Duavit, a Malacañang official, and RBS reopened under new ownership, with a new format as GMA-7. When the smoke cleared, the viewer had channels 2, 9, 13, run by Benedicto; Duavit’s 7; and 4, which belonged to the Ministry of Information. (Pinoy, 97)
When DZXL-TV Channel 9 of CBN was sold to Roberto Benedicto, he changed the name from CBN to KBS, Kanlaon Broadcasting System. So when a fire destroyed the KBS television studios in Pasay, the people of Benedicto took over the ABS-CBN studios in Bohol Avenue, Quezon City. His employees moved in; and by August 1973, KBS was broadcasting on all ABS-CBN channels. A year later, Salvador “Buddy” Tan, general manager of KBS, reopened Channel 2 as the Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
The two Benedicto stations: KBS Channel 9 and BBC Channel 2 aired government propaganda. In 1980, Channels 2, 9 and 13 moved to the newly-built Broadcast City in Diliman, Quezon City. According to Buddy Tan, the move was based on economy of scale. These stations shared everything from security guards to water to studios.
In 1980, Gregorio Cendaña was named Minister of Information. GTV Channel 4 became known as Maharlika Broadcasting System.
Initially, everything that was to be aired on radio and TV had to be reviewed by the Department of Public Information, which set up the rules and regulations. Through other government agencies, policies on ownership, allocation of frequencies, station distribution, and program standards were promulgated. It allowed self-regulation when broadcast owners formed the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster sa Pilipinas in 1973 and when a presidential decree created the Broadcast Media Council in 1974. (National, 30)

Before martial law, broadcasting in the Philippines was probably the freest from government control in the world. “Freedom of expression was virtually unrestricted, to the extent that no politician or public figure could hope to escape permanently from mass-media revelations.” (B-Lent, 179)

On paper, monopolies were banned. In practice, however, Marcos allowed them to exist for friends and relatives. Broadcast media was so vulnerable to government dictation and control since its existence depended upon the government’s granting them the Certificates of Public Convenience… The continued existence of the broadcast companies were put to doubt and this made them high-risk borrowers of banks. Thus, managers were unable to upgrade and update their steadily depreciating equipment. Only the more profitable and perhaps those with more access to the powers-that-be were able to import spare parts and state-of-the-art technology. (National, 30)
One TV spectacular after another proclaimed that all was well in the Philippines --- the 1974 Miss Universe Pageant, the 1975 Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier heavy-weight fight, the 1981 visit of Pope John Paul II. (Pinoy, 109)
When Benigno Aquino was assassinated in 1983, it was a small item on television news. During his historic funeral procession, GMA Channel 7 gave ten seconds of airtime for this event. With the assassination of Aquino, the iron grip that the Marcos administration had on television began to slip.
In 1984, Imee Marcos, daughter of Ferdinand Marcos, attempted to takeover GMA Channel 7, just as she did with the Benedictos. However, she was foiled by GMA executives, Menardo Jimenez and Felipe Gozon. Stewart left the Philippines for good as he was utterly disappointed with the Marcos move.

The Early Days

DZAQ-TV3 started out on a four-hour a day schedule, from six to ten in the evening.Although ABS was able to round up fifty-two advertisers for the premier telecast, selling spots for regular programming became difficult. This was because advertisers still felt that it was more cost efficient to buy radio ad spots, since radio reaches more homes than television did at that time.

At that time, television sets were expensive and television reception depended on electrical power that was not always available. “The high prices of sets were due partly to government taxation. Whereas radios and phonographs were taxed 7 per cent at the plants, television sets were taxed as high as 30 per cent.” (P-Lent, 96)

The cost of television sets was a major drawback for the newborn industry. “In the late 1950s, a TV set sold for around $600 or P1,200, a princely sum and the equivalent of a few month’s salary when the minimum wage was P4 a day and the exchange rate P2:$1. It cost less to buy an automobile.” (Pinoy, 65)

The programs being telecast at that time were mostly borrowed films from the foreign embassies, imported old cowboy movies, and actual coverage of a variety of events. These ran out so fast so stage plays from theater were transported to television. This paved the way for Father James Reuter, a Jesuit who was not only active in the academe as a drama coach but also had radio and television training in the United States. He produced the first play on television in 1953, less than a month after the first telecast. It was “Cyrano de Bergerac,” a full-length play that was three hours long. Father Reuter recalls: “Nobody paid anybody. We didn’t pay them and they didn’t pay us…. I had enough entry into the schools so that all my talents were students.”

Father Reuter produced literary classics on television, which gave birth to a generation of performers known as “Reuter babies.”

Since everything was done live in the early days of studio production, performers were under tremendous pressure. The studio was a hothouse of bloopers and accidents waiting to happen; cameras entangled in wires were unable to track, and viewers’ imaginations were unnecessarily taxed as actors who had been previously murdered would forget they were on camera, get up, and stroll out of a scene. (Pinoy, 74)

In the beginning, locally produced shows were at a premium because of high production costs. American syndicates took advantage of the situation and sold mediocre serials to Philippine networks for as much as $125-$150 a show. On the other hand, “[a] locally produced, half-hour program cost $500 in 1959 -- a huge sum of money for any advertiser.” (P-Lent, 97)

To entice advertisers, “simulcasts” --- or simultaneous airing of a program over the radio and the television station --- were offered as a promotional gimmick. Many popular radio shows like “Tawag ng Tanghalan”; Kuwentong Kutsero” and “Student Canteen” started their life on TV this way. Their popularity grew as TV shows later on because their listeners had the added pleasure of seeing their favorite personalities in their own living rooms. (KBP, 155)

Finally, the problem of prohibitive television set cost was solved with the establishment of such local outfits as Radiowealth, Carlsound and Rehco. These set up assembly plants which cut the prices of television sets by as much as one-half or two-thirds.

In 1955, Radiowealth, Inc. began manufacturing television sets. Radiowealth founder, Domingo M. Guevarra, made television sets available to as many families as possible. He began by distributing television sets on the market when he got exclusive distributorship for Motorola radio and television sets in 1946. Soon, he imported TV parts, assembled them in the Philippines and sold the branded product as Radiowealth-Motorola. He even sent his eldest son, Petronilo, abroad to study the manufacture of electronic components.

Ownership of a television set became a status symbol. In those days, it was a spectacle to have a TV set delivered to one’s home. As the entire neighborhood watched, it took at least three men to carry the huge cabinet with the heavy tube that would bring magic into the household. Newly recovered from the trauma of World War II, the Filipino consumers were eager to treat themselves to something new and exciting. (Pinoy, 66)

The number of TV receivers per 1,000 Filipinos jumped from 3.5 in 1953 to 38 in 1960. In 1962, the television set was the most salable appliance in urban areas, with the electric iron a far second…. By 1969, Radiowealth was making color tubes; by 1971, the Philippines, through Radiowealth, had become the third country in the world to manufacture color TV sets. (Pinoy, 79)

Television was called the new obsession of Filipinos and was blamed for making Filipinos lose much needed sleep and for putting them shamefully behind their electric bills. “It was also accused of breeding envy and discontent since most people could not afford a set.” (B-Lent, 178) It was blamed for everything, from the deterioration of family conversations to epileptic seizures in children.

In July 1967, the hysteria peaked. The United States Public Health Service reported that some 90,000 TV sets sold between September 1, 1966 and May 27, 1967 were actually leaking radiation and thus might pose a national health hazard. The appliances, identified as 18-, 20-, 22-, and 23-inch color sets with tube serial numbers 6EF4 and 6LO6, had been manufactured by the General Electric (GE) Company. (Pinoy, 86)

There was no doubt that television had changed the lifestyle of Filipinos. In its early days, televiewing was a community affair. “Entire barrios gathered around the set, enshrined in the home of some lucky native who benevolently kept doors and windows open.” (Pinoy, 86)

Filipinos had become so attached to their television sets that the only time one could expect reactions from televiewers was during commercials. Television now competes with the school, the home, and the church in influencing the Filipino people.

In 1958, two developments indicated that television could survive in spite of its problems. First of all, the high taxes previously imposed on canned television shows were removed. This made U.S. shows less expensive than live shows. Second, another network was set up in April of that year. This was the Chronicle Broadcasting Network, established as a radio medium in 1956 by businessmen Eugenio and Fernando Lopez. (P-Lent, 96)

In the same year, the Chronicle Broadcasting Network (CBN), owned by Lopez brothers, Eugenio Sr. and Fernando, bought ABS from Judge Antonio Quirino. Quirino was caught by surprise by the Lopezes’ interest. The price paid was reportedly many times more than what Quirino thought the channel was worth --- and more than what he thought the station would ever earn. (Pinoy, 66)

Eugenio “Eñing” Lopez Sr. called Judge Quirino to his house for breakfast and ABS was bought under a contract written on a table napkin. The Lopes brothers merged these two companies under the name Bolinao Electronics Corporation, the former name of ABS. Meanwhile, Eugenio “Geny” Lopez Jr., the eldest son of Lopez Sr. had hands-on-education under two pioneers who were running ABS for Quirino: Slim Chaney and James Lindenberg.

With the establishment of DZXL-TV Channel 9 on April 19, 1958, the Lopez brothers controlled both television channels in the archipelago.
In those days, there was not that much money in TV, and not a lot of equipment which the company could initially afford. “Slim would tie together a transmitter with bamboo strips and rags,” recalled Lopez Jr. “It worked, and you didn’t argue.” (Pinoy, 54)

As ABS continued operating, Philippine television started to improve. “Evidence that the television audience was growing were the groups of people who crowded around the appliance shops whenever the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball games were aired.” (KPB, 155)

Rapidly, other television stations jumped in. By the early 60s, these new [VHF] television stations opened: DZBB-TV Channel 7, established on October 29, 1961 by the Republic Broadcasting System (RBS), owned by Robert “Uncle Bob” Stewart; DZTM-TV Channel 5, established in 1962 by the Associated Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), owned by the Roces family, the publisher of The Manila Times; DZTV Channel 13 in 1977, run by Inter-Island Broadcasting Corporation (IBC), owned by Andres Soriano; and DZRH-TV Channel 11 of Manila Broadcasting Company (MBC), owned by Manuel Elizalde. Even the government-owned Philippine Broadcast Service launched its television station, Channel 10 in 1961. It was financed by government subsidy but had a short life because of channel frequency allocation.

When the other channels were established, competition became intense. The early stations cornered the American television film market. DZAQ-TV Channel 3 received National Broadcasting Company; DZBB-TV Channel 7 obtained American Broadcasting Company; and DZTV Channel 13, Columbia Broadcasting System.

In a struggle to get the best shows from abroad, these channels became victims of the American networks. Philippine channels were asked to pay $125-$150 for each half-hour U.S. show, and were allowed to show them once. (P-Lent, 97)

If politics jumpstarted the Philippine television, soap kept the medium running. Procter and Gamble, the American manufacturing company that produced Ivory soap and Tide laundry detergent, nurtured broadcasting by introducing a revolutionary genre frothing with melodrama: the appropriately-named soap opera. (Pinoy, 66)

Sponsorship on television, at first, came only in the form of block timing, with companies buying chunks of time slots from the networks. Depending on their budget and their target audience, they dictated what time slot they wanted to bring in. Thus, programming and production were largely in the hands of advertisers; networks were merely the custodians of airtime. (Pinoy, 71)

Robert “Uncle Bob” Stewart was the first to sell “coop spots.” Sponsors or small businessmen could now buy portions of a program in the form of 60-second commercials. “He approached companies without the resources to buy block time and sponsor entire shows and offered them smaller, more affordable packages within programs. Thus he pioneered the concept of segment and portion buys that are so popular today.” (Pinoy, 57) “In the ultimate promotion, Stewart even threw himself in as a commercial talent for free, and his live endorsements became gems of spontaneous entertainment in themselves.” (Pinoy, 71)

Bob Stewart, the man behind RBS Channel 7 had a special place in the hearts of a generation of kids. “For children growing up in the ‘50s and ‘60s, Uncle Bob’s Lucky Seven Club was the club to join in.” (Pinoy, 57)

In the beginning, the people who were creating Philippine TV had to make do with very little --- minuscule budgets, tiny studios, weak signals, and complicated cameras which technicians couldn’t even begin to operate. After all, the first TV production crews had been transplanted from radio. (Pinoy, 74)

“Mistakes were definitely the order of the day,” recalls Stewart. “We had two cameras, both of them second-hand. And since we had almost no experience in TV, we often had no idea which one was on the air!” The only way to learn television then was by trial and error. In fact, the best cameraman in ABS started out as the driver of Eugenio “Geny” Lopez Jr.

Lack of finances is largely responsible for the poor quality of live television. There was not enough money to pay talent fees, to buy equipment and to train studio personnel. Another reason why live shows slowly matured is the prevalence of unqualified producers.

In 1960, the Philippine Association of National Advertisers acknowledged television as one of the most effective and potent media for advertising. In fact, it was only in the 60s that television commercials came into use. The first television advertising contract in the country was signed for Tawag ng Tanghalan, handled by J. Walter Thompson for Procter and Gamble.

As the television industry matured, lines were more firmly drawn between advertisers and network owners. Programmers now had to prove to advertisers that the station-produced programs were being watched. Thus was the ratings game born. (Pinoy, 74)

In 1961, instructional TV was first attempted by the National Science Development Board through a weekly course in physics, Continental Classroom. In the same year, Fr. James Reuter produced his three-times-a-week show, Education on TV over Channel 9. It featured Fr. Horacio de la Costa, S.J., lecturing on history and Fernando Zobel, discussing art.

Interest generated by public organizations, business firms, and educational institutions developed the National Science Development Board’s televised college course, “Physics in the Atomic Age,” in 1961.

Three years later, on July 1964, the Ateneo Center for Educational Television (ETV) began operation. It was a closed-circuit television project for elementary and high school students of six receiving schools including Ateneo de Manila University and Maryknoll College (now called Miriam College). The now defunct Center for ETV had its own studio and first-rate equipment. It was so advanced that even commercial stations like ABS-CBN occasionally borrowed cameras.

On February 1, 1967, the corporate name of BEC was changed to ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation. This was the formal merger of ABS and CBN. Also, during this year, Radiowealth pioneered in the production of 19-, 21- and 25-inch models of color TV sets, which cost about two thousand five hundred pesos. Television was well on its way to becoming a mass communication tool. Moreover, it was favored by advertisers like Procter and Gamble, Philippine Refining Company, Colgate-Palmolive, Del Rosario Brothers and Caltex Philippines.

In 1969, Filipinos got to watch live the television coverage of the Apollo 11 historic landing. It was the first telecast via satellite in the country and the first in color. “Telecasts from the moon relayed back to earth were captured on Philippine TV sets by the satellite network. Three networks tied up for the project: Channels 5, 7, and 13.” (P-Lent, 106)

It was also in 1969 when Radio Philippines Network branched out into television with Channel 9 in Manila. It was RPN-9 who introduced the longest running and consistently rating sitcom, John en Marsha, which introduced the First Family of Philippine television, the Puruntongs. It was created by Ading Fernando and it starred Dolphy and Nida Blanca. John en Marsha is nationally recognized as one of the greatest Filipino sitcoms of all time. It had millions of loyal fans.

Among the top rated programs in 1966 were: The Nida-Nestor Show, Buhay Artista, and Pancho Loves Tita. Another local show that has had a prevailing top rating is Tawag ng Tanghalan, the amateur singing contest hosted by Lopito and Patsy. During the early years of television, it was a medium for the actor and the performer.

“By the late 60s, Filipinos were craving for steady doses of reality in the form of news and public affairs programs.” (Pinoy, 92) The news pioneers were The Big News on ABC Channel 5 and The World Tonight on ABS-CBN Channel 2. Jose Mari Velez of The Big News brought news broadcasting to new heights.

The Martial Law Years

The Marcos administration was continually attacked in news programs but the late dictator did not take it sitting down. He realized that only absolute control of this medium would stop it.
On September 21, 1972, Ferdinand Marcos declared Martial Law. It was probably the worst time for Philippine television and the scariest moment on TV. Media were cited as a prime enemy of the administration and the target of Marcos forces. The first letter of instruction issued by Marcos ordered the take over of all media firms to prevent “communist” propaganda. Troops entered radio and television stations, sealed them, and placed under military control. All media outlets that were critical of the Marcos regime were shut down. “Within a few hours, the government had wiped out the entire news media of the Philippines, except for [those that are pro-Marcos].” (B-Lent, 179) GTV Channel 4, the government channel, was taken over by the Office of Press Secretary Francisco Tatad and the National Media Production Center of Gregorio Cendaña.
The Filipinos’ first experience of television under martial law began with a blank screen, punctuated only by appearances of President Marcos and Press Secretary Francisco Tatad reading edict after edict. It was a portent of much more chilling realities to come. (Pinoy, 93)
Of the seven Manila-based stations existing in 1972, President Ferdinand Marcos closed all but three; channels 9 and 13 were eventually controlled by [then Ambassador] Roberto Benedicto, and Bob Stewart’s Channel 7 was later allowed to operate with limited three-month permits. (Pinoy, 95)
ABS-CBN was seized from the Lopez family, and Eugenio Lopez Jr., then president of ABS-CBN, was imprisoned.
By the latter part of 1973, Channel 7 was in the red and was forced to sell 70% of the business to a group of investors, who changed the name from RBS to Greater Manila Area (GMA) Radio Television Arts.
Stewart was forced to cede majority control to Gilberto Duavit, a Malacañang official, and RBS reopened under new ownership, with a new format as GMA-7. When the smoke cleared, the viewer had channels 2, 9, 13, run by Benedicto; Duavit’s 7; and 4, which belonged to the Ministry of Information. (Pinoy, 97)
When DZXL-TV Channel 9 of CBN was sold to Roberto Benedicto, he changed the name from CBN to KBS, Kanlaon Broadcasting System. So when a fire destroyed the KBS television studios in Pasay, the people of Benedicto took over the ABS-CBN studios in Bohol Avenue, Quezon City. His employees moved in; and by August 1973, KBS was broadcasting on all ABS-CBN channels. A year later, Salvador “Buddy” Tan, general manager of KBS, reopened Channel 2 as the Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
The two Benedicto stations: KBS Channel 9 and BBC Channel 2 aired government propaganda. In 1980, Channels 2, 9 and 13 moved to the newly-built Broadcast City in Diliman, Quezon City. According to Buddy Tan, the move was based on economy of scale. These stations shared everything from security guards to water to studios.
In 1980, Gregorio Cendaña was named Minister of Information. GTV Channel 4 became known as Maharlika Broadcasting System.
Initially, everything that was to be aired on radio and TV had to be reviewed by the Department of Public Information, which set up the rules and regulations. Through other government agencies, policies on ownership, allocation of frequencies, station distribution, and program standards were promulgated. It allowed self-regulation when broadcast owners formed the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster sa Pilipinas in 1973 and when a presidential decree created the Broadcast Media Council in 1974. (National, 30)

Before martial law, broadcasting in the Philippines was probably the freest from government control in the world. “Freedom of expression was virtually unrestricted, to the extent that no politician or public figure could hope to escape permanently from mass-media revelations.” (B-Lent, 179)

On paper, monopolies were banned. In practice, however, Marcos allowed them to exist for friends and relatives. Broadcast media was so vulnerable to government dictation and control since its existence depended upon the government’s granting them the Certificates of Public Convenience… The continued existence of the broadcast companies were put to doubt and this made them high-risk borrowers of banks. Thus, managers were unable to upgrade and update their steadily depreciating equipment. Only the more profitable and perhaps those with more access to the powers-that-be were able to import spare parts and state-of-the-art technology. (National, 30)
One TV spectacular after another proclaimed that all was well in the Philippines --- the 1974 Miss Universe Pageant, the 1975 Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier heavy-weight fight, the 1981 visit of Pope John Paul II. (Pinoy, 109)
When Benigno Aquino was assassinated in 1983, it was a small item on television news. During his historic funeral procession, GMA Channel 7 gave ten seconds of airtime for this event. With the assassination of Aquino, the iron grip that the Marcos administration had on television began to slip.
In 1984, Imee Marcos, daughter of Ferdinand Marcos, attempted to takeover GMA Channel 7, just as she did with the Benedictos. However, she was foiled by GMA executives, Menardo Jimenez and Felipe Gozon. Stewart left the Philippines for good as he was utterly disappointed with the Marcos move.

Maybe Philippine Normal?

Maybe Philippine Normal?

MORE GREAT FINDS BY ANIMO![/B]


[QUOTE=Animo]"Overhanging balconies", closed off with windowpanes made from capiz, a flat translucent shell which is an essential ingredient of the Philippine style.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p18ima2.jpg

We used to have window panes like those. See the panels below, they open up to let the air in. I remember "nagpapahangin sa bintana" while whoever was supposed to look after me was "nakadungaw sa bintana". Those capiz window panes though can become extremely dusty and grimy. I usually get very dirty hands while I was playing hide and seek behind thoses panes after they put in extended grills on top of it.

^^^ I like the effect of the capiz on windows when the light stikes through it. its so subtle and warm.

MORE GREAT FINDS BY ANIMO![/B]


[QUOTE=Animo]"Overhanging balconies", closed off with windowpanes made from capiz, a flat translucent shell which is an essential ingredient of the Philippine style.

http://www.aenet.org/manila-expo/p18ima2.jpg

We used to have window panes like those. See the panels below, they open up to let the air in. I remember "nagpapahangin sa bintana" while whoever was supposed to look after me was "nakadungaw sa bintana". Those capiz window panes though can become extremely dusty and grimy. I usually get very dirty hands while I was playing hide and seek behind thoses panes after they put in extended grills on top of it.

^^^ I like the effect of the capiz on windows when the light stikes through it. its so subtle and warm.

question: wats tipar???

question: wats tipar???

question: wats tipar???

Ay, hija, tipar was slang for party. o eto, some 70's slang:

lonta - pants
toga - shoes
hayop - cool
baduy - low class, bakya
syota - girlfriend
yosi - cigarette
buckle - bakla

question: wats tipar???

Ay, hija, tipar was slang for party. o eto, some 70's slang:

lonta - pants
toga - shoes
hayop - cool
baduy - low class, bakya
syota - girlfriend
yosi - cigarette
buckle - bakla

THANKS!

toga - shoes
I didnt know that

hayop - cool
baduy - low class, bakya
syota - girlfriend
yosi - cigarette
these are still use upto now

buckle - bakla
ahehe! buckle? galeeeng... nowadays we call them jokla, badingers, mama, madir, girlalu...etc

THANKS!

toga - shoes
I didnt know that

hayop - cool
baduy - low class, bakya
syota - girlfriend
yosi - cigarette
these are still use upto now

buckle - bakla
ahehe! buckle? galeeeng... nowadays we call them jokla, badingers, mama, madir, girlalu...etc

THANKS!


I didnt know that


these are still use upto now


ahehe! buckle? galeeeng... nowadays we call them jokla, badingers, mama, madir, girlalu...etc

do you still use tsibog as in food, or to eat?

THANKS!


I didnt know that


these are still use upto now


ahehe! buckle? galeeeng... nowadays we call them jokla, badingers, mama, madir, girlalu...etc

do you still use tsibog as in food, or to eat?

do you still use tsibog as in food, or to eat?

some still do...

but for us we use "lamon na tayo" hehe :D

do you still use tsibog as in food, or to eat?

some still do...

but for us we use "lamon na tayo" hehe :D

some still do...

but for us we use "lamon na tayo" hehe :D

Yeah, i love making lamon... :)

some still do...

but for us we use "lamon na tayo" hehe :D

Yeah, i love making lamon... :)

Yeah, i love making lamon... :)

sound unethical but delivers your true eagerness... :D

Yeah, i love making lamon... :)

sound unethical but delivers your true eagerness... :D

THANKS!


I didnt know that


these are still use upto now


ahehe! buckle? galeeeng... nowadays we call them jokla, badingers, mama, madir, girlalu...etc

oh yeah, i forgot clabing...

THANKS!


I didnt know that


these are still use upto now


ahehe! buckle? galeeeng... nowadays we call them jokla, badingers, mama, madir, girlalu...etc

oh yeah, i forgot clabing...

also swarding, silahis, baklesh

That badingers is a derivation of Badinger Z which came from a favorite anime robot in the late 70s Mazinger Z which was released a little bit ahead or about the same time as Voltes V.

@kuyageezer, do you remember the first outwardly gay yet macho-looking character of the 70s named Sandy Garcia? He's the mestizo one with the thick mustache? I remember watching him in a noon time show before.

Then silahis came about pertaining to bis who frequented the Silahis hotel?

also swarding, silahis, baklesh

That badingers is a derivation of Badinger Z which came from a favorite anime robot in the late 70s Mazinger Z which was released a little bit ahead or about the same time as Voltes V.

@kuyageezer, do you remember the first outwardly gay yet macho-looking character of the 70s named Sandy Garcia? He's the mestizo one with the thick mustache? I remember watching him in a noon time show before.

Then silahis came about pertaining to bis who frequented the Silahis hotel?

also swarding, silahis, baklesh

That badingers is a derivation of Badinger Z which came from a favorite anime robot in the late 70s Mazinger Z which was released a little bit ahead or about the same time as Voltes V.

@kuyageezer, do you remember the first outwardly gay yet macho-looking character of the 70s named Sandy Garcia? He's the mestizo one with the thick mustache? I remember watching him in a noon time show before.

Then silahis came about pertaining to bis who frequented the Silahis hotel?


Yeah, Sandy Garcia, I remember him. Whatever happend to that guy? He was also a regular in some comedy show I can't remember.

When I was in 3rd year high school I had to play the part of a silahis for my drama elective. I didn't know what that was at that time. Basta our director said, "Beng, para kang silahis sa role na ito, ok?" Oo naman ako even though I had no idea what he meant. Engot ko talaga.. ha ha... man that was back in '75!

also swarding, silahis, baklesh

That badingers is a derivation of Badinger Z which came from a favorite anime robot in the late 70s Mazinger Z which was released a little bit ahead or about the same time as Voltes V.

@kuyageezer, do you remember the first outwardly gay yet macho-looking character of the 70s named Sandy Garcia? He's the mestizo one with the thick mustache? I remember watching him in a noon time show before.

Then silahis came about pertaining to bis who frequented the Silahis hotel?


Yeah, Sandy Garcia, I remember him. Whatever happend to that guy? He was also a regular in some comedy show I can't remember.

When I was in 3rd year high school I had to play the part of a silahis for my drama elective. I didn't know what that was at that time. Basta our director said, "Beng, para kang silahis sa role na ito, ok?" Oo naman ako even though I had no idea what he meant. Engot ko talaga.. ha ha... man that was back in '75!

That badingers is a derivation of Badinger Z which came from a favorite anime robot in the late 70s Mazinger Z which was released a little bit ahead or about the same time as Voltes V.

haha really?! I heard the Mazingers Z but never got the chance to see it... well coz obviously I wasnt born in the 70's.. :D

That badingers is a derivation of Badinger Z which came from a favorite anime robot in the late 70s Mazinger Z which was released a little bit ahead or about the same time as Voltes V.

haha really?! I heard the Mazingers Z but never got the chance to see it... well coz obviously I wasnt born in the 70's.. :D

Yeah, Sandy Garcia, I remember him. Whatever happend to that guy? He was also a regular in some comedy show I can't remember.

When I was in 3rd year high school I had to play the part of a silahis for my drama elective. I didn't know what that was at that time. Basta our director said, "Beng, para kang silahis sa role na ito, ok?" Oo naman ako even though I had no idea what he meant. Engot ko talaga.. ha ha... man that was back in '75!

Haha... Now I know your name Kuyageezer, Beng.

There was also Babette Villaruel the funny scribe. He, Oskee Salazar and Billy Balbastro started a lot of the sward lingo in the tabloid. They were called the Troika ng Bayan.

Yeah, Sandy Garcia, I remember him. Whatever happend to that guy? He was also a regular in some comedy show I can't remember.

When I was in 3rd year high school I had to play the part of a silahis for my drama elective. I didn't know what that was at that time. Basta our director said, "Beng, para kang silahis sa role na ito, ok?" Oo naman ako even though I had no idea what he meant. Engot ko talaga.. ha ha... man that was back in '75!

Haha... Now I know your name Kuyageezer, Beng.

There was also Babette Villaruel the funny scribe. He, Oskee Salazar and Billy Balbastro started a lot of the sward lingo in the tabloid. They were called the Troika ng Bayan.

haha really?! I heard the Mazingers Z but never got the chance to see it... well coz obviously I wasnt born in the 70's.. :D

Mazinger Z had a female partner robot named Aphrodite A. Her only weapons are her two projectile boobs. After she released those bombs, that was it. But she always comes to the rescue of Mazinger Z when Mazinger is about to be defeated and she saves the day. :lol:

haha really?! I heard the Mazingers Z but never got the chance to see it... well coz obviously I wasnt born in the 70's.. :D

Mazinger Z had a female partner robot named Aphrodite A. Her only weapons are her two projectile boobs. After she released those bombs, that was it. But she always comes to the rescue of Mazinger Z when Mazinger is about to be defeated and she saves the day. :lol:

Oh kuyageezer, the term bading started from the word badaf. Remember that term? I just don't know where badaf came from.

I think that badaf is a derivation of "bakla daw fala" => badaf => bading. At that time, there was not as much wide acceptance of gayness so a lot were hidden until revealed kaya the expression "Ay! Bakla daw fala sya!". Hence, badaf.

Oh kuyageezer, the term bading started from the word badaf. Remember that term? I just don't know where badaf came from.

I think that badaf is a derivation of "bakla daw fala" => badaf => bading. At that time, there was not as much wide acceptance of gayness so a lot were hidden until revealed kaya the expression "Ay! Bakla daw fala sya!". Hence, badaf.

Her only weapons are her two projectile boobs.

wow! haha! now that makes sense! :laugh:

Her only weapons are her two projectile boobs.

wow! haha! now that makes sense! :laugh:

Those really saved Mazinger Z :lol:

Those really saved Mazinger Z :lol:

http://www.mazinger.net/mazingaz/pic/mazingers.jpg

is this the mazinger z???

http://www.mazinger.net/mazingaz/pic/mazingers.jpg

is this the mazinger z???

Yes! Can you find one of Aphrodite A and her projectile boobs?

Yes! Can you find one of Aphrodite A and her projectile boobs?

Apparently there is mixed message about Aphrodite A because without her boobs she is helpless and useless.

Apparently there is mixed message about Aphrodite A because without her boobs she is helpless and useless.

^^ im trying to look for it... but all I can get are the pictures of the goddess aphrodite... im curious of her projectile boobs! hahah! :D

^^ im trying to look for it... but all I can get are the pictures of the goddess aphrodite... im curious of her projectile boobs! hahah! :D

http://www.mazinger.net/mazingaz/pic/mazingers.jpg

is this the mazinger z???
i had the toys when i was a kid but never even seen any part or cartoons of this. i remembered this toys, one of the hand can come out.

http://www.mazinger.net/mazingaz/pic/mazingers.jpg

is this the mazinger z???
i had the toys when i was a kid but never even seen any part or cartoons of this. i remembered this toys, one of the hand can come out.

minerva x and mazinger z... are they lovers?! :D

minerva x and mazinger z... are they lovers?! :D

I FOUND HER!!!

http://ldf.plion.it/nagai/immagini/soc/aphrodai_01.jpg
(front view)

http://ldf.plion.it/nagai/immagini/soc/aphrodai_05.jpg
(and her side view with the famous boobs!)

hahah! weird robot!

I FOUND HER!!!

http://ldf.plion.it/nagai/immagini/soc/aphrodai_01.jpg
(front view)

http://ldf.plion.it/nagai/immagini/soc/aphrodai_05.jpg
(and her side view with the famous boobs!)

hahah! weird robot!

Oh kuyageezer, the term bading started from the word badaf. Remember that term? I just don't know where badaf came from.

I remember badaf. That came out during the disco days. Not sure how it originated either. That was the time when men started going to "salons" instead of barbershops. A good friend of mine, Richard Sy, told me, "Beng, pare, magpagupit ka sa bakla, and galing nila". I went with him to his stylist and started laughing when I saw his hair all up in clips while the guy was clipping his hair. One month later I was in the same chair.

The "sosyal" crowd went to this place called Budjiwara. If you had your hair done by "budji", wow, bongga ka!! I used to go this a place run by some guy named Ricky something. Anyways, I only paid 6 pesos for my haircut. One day, Chiqie Hollman from Eat Bulaga gets her hair done there, plugs it on the show, and the next time I go back it's 10 pesos na! Anak ng huweteng!!

Oh kuyageezer, the term bading started from the word badaf. Remember that term? I just don't know where badaf came from.

I remember badaf. That came out during the disco days. Not sure how it originated either. That was the time when men started going to "salons" instead of barbershops. A good friend of mine, Richard Sy, told me, "Beng, pare, magpagupit ka sa bakla, and galing nila". I went with him to his stylist and started laughing when I saw his hair all up in clips while the guy was clipping his hair. One month later I was in the same chair.

The "sosyal" crowd went to this place called Budjiwara. If you had your hair done by "budji", wow, bongga ka!! I used to go this a place run by some guy named Ricky something. Anyways, I only paid 6 pesos for my haircut. One day, Chiqie Hollman from Eat Bulaga gets her hair done there, plugs it on the show, and the next time I go back it's 10 pesos na! Anak ng huweteng!!

Ashley, that last picture was not how I remembered Aphrodite A. :lol:

She had no nipples. That's quite a vulgar toy :hilarious:

Ashley, that last picture was not how I remembered Aphrodite A. :lol:

She had no nipples. That's quite a vulgar toy :hilarious:

I remember badaf. That came out during the disco days. Not sure how it originated either. That was the time when men started going to "salons" instead of barbershops. A good friend of mine, Richard Sy, told me, "Beng, pare, magpagupit ka sa bakla, and galing nila". I went with him to his stylist and started laughing when I saw his hair all up in clips while the guy was clipping his hair. One month later I was in the same chair.

The "sosyal" crowd went to this place called Budjiwara. If you had your hair done by "budji", wow, bongga ka!! I used to go this a place run by some guy named Ricky something. Anyways, I only paid 6 pesos for my haircut. One day, Chiqie Hollman from Eat Bulaga gets her hair done there, plugs it on the show, and the next time I go back it's 10 pesos na! Anak ng huweteng!!

Yes, I remember Budjiwara was the bongga salon then. My aunt used to always mention this.

I remember badaf. That came out during the disco days. Not sure how it originated either. That was the time when men started going to "salons" instead of barbershops. A good friend of mine, Richard Sy, told me, "Beng, pare, magpagupit ka sa bakla, and galing nila". I went with him to his stylist and started laughing when I saw his hair all up in clips while the guy was clipping his hair. One month later I was in the same chair.

The "sosyal" crowd went to this place called Budjiwara. If you had your hair done by "budji", wow, bongga ka!! I used to go this a place run by some guy named Ricky something. Anyways, I only paid 6 pesos for my haircut. One day, Chiqie Hollman from Eat Bulaga gets her hair done there, plugs it on the show, and the next time I go back it's 10 pesos na! Anak ng huweteng!!

Yes, I remember Budjiwara was the bongga salon then. My aunt used to always mention this.

^^ yah I think so... well thats all I can get ... (in memory of aphrodite A) heheh.. :D

^^ yah I think so... well thats all I can get ... (in memory of aphrodite A) heheh.. :D

Ashley, that last picture was not how I remembered Aphrodite A. :lol:

She had no nipples. That's quite a vulgar toy :hilarious:

I agree, I don't remember Aphrodite A with nipples. Still, that was wierd to have a kid's cartoon with projectile breasts.

Ashley, that last picture was not how I remembered Aphrodite A. :lol:

She had no nipples. That's quite a vulgar toy :hilarious:

I agree, I don't remember Aphrodite A with nipples. Still, that was wierd to have a kid's cartoon with projectile breasts.

Yes, I remember Budjiwara was the bongga salon then. My aunt used to always mention this.

Actually, it's even mentioned in HOtdog's song Annie Batongbakal.

Yes, I remember Budjiwara was the bongga salon then. My aunt used to always mention this.

Actually, it's even mentioned in HOtdog's song Annie Batongbakal.

Here is Aphrodite A
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a137/ECdoesit/aphrodite.jpg

Her missile bombs
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a137/ECdoesit/breastmissiles2.jpg

Aphrodite Ace is one of the most recognizable female robots in the world of anime. She was Mazinger Z's determined companion for most of the Mazinger Z series although she spent most of the time getting beaten up, much to her pilot's displeasure. Aphrodite Ace was never meant for war but had to adapt to the new role given to her as best as possible. Her primary functions were to provide support for Mazinger, destroy the small stuff, and buy time when needed. She improved greatly at this once Boss Borot came into the picture as they complimented each others strengths. While Boss Borot took care of the in close fighting, Aphrodite provided missile support.

1. In a prior episode of Mazinger Z it was established that both Koji (Mazinger Z's operator) and Sayaka (Aphrodite A's operator) developed a psychic tie to their respected robots. They mentioned that sometimes the robots did not even need for a button to be pushed to do something, they just reacted to the thought. This explains why Mazinger Z, Aphrodite Ace, Diana Ace, and Boss Borot all had very human like mannerisms. They were copying off their pilots. This had a very dark side, however, as we saw in the episode after the one where Aphrodite Ace was destroyed. Upon losing Aphrodite Ace Sayaka went into a deep depresion as not only was her partner gone but it also took a piece of her soul with her. Koji had to dive in and save Sayaka from drowing when she thought she saw Aphrodite Ace in a lake and followed her. This state did not better until Diana Ace came along and Sayaka was able to finally put what happened behind her.

WEAPONS:
BREAST MISSILE: Yes, Aphrodite A's only weapon was to fire her breast at an opposing robot. The missiles were never really that strong. At first Aphrodite could only fire two but latter gained the ability to fire more. You kinda figure that a father would send his old daughter to battle with a little more than just this.

Here is Aphrodite A
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a137/ECdoesit/aphrodite.jpg

Her missile bombs
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a137/ECdoesit/breastmissiles2.jpg

Aphrodite Ace is one of the most recognizable female robots in the world of anime. She was Mazinger Z's determined companion for most of the Mazinger Z series although she spent most of the time getting beaten up, much to her pilot's displeasure. Aphrodite Ace was never meant for war but had to adapt to the new role given to her as best as possible. Her primary functions were to provide support for Mazinger, destroy the small stuff, and buy time when needed. She improved greatly at this once Boss Borot came into the picture as they complimented each others strengths. While Boss Borot took care of the in close fighting, Aphrodite provided missile support.

1. In a prior episode of Mazinger Z it was established that both Koji (Mazinger Z's operator) and Sayaka (Aphrodite A's operator) developed a psychic tie to their respected robots. They mentioned that sometimes the robots did not even need for a button to be pushed to do something, they just reacted to the thought. This explains why Mazinger Z, Aphrodite Ace, Diana Ace, and Boss Borot all had very human like mannerisms. They were copying off their pilots. This had a very dark side, however, as we saw in the episode after the one where Aphrodite Ace was destroyed. Upon losing Aphrodite Ace Sayaka went into a deep depresion as not only was her partner gone but it also took a piece of her soul with her. Koji had to dive in and save Sayaka from drowing when she thought she saw Aphrodite Ace in a lake and followed her. This state did not better until Diana Ace came along and Sayaka was able to finally put what happened behind her.

WEAPONS:
BREAST MISSILE: Yes, Aphrodite A's only weapon was to fire her breast at an opposing robot. The missiles were never really that strong. At first Aphrodite could only fire two but latter gained the ability to fire more. You kinda figure that a father would send his old daughter to battle with a little more than just this.

Wow, it seems like the Philippines was on pace to becoming a developed nation (at least aesthetically, from the pictures)...

Would anyone mind giving those of us who are unfamiliar with recent Filipino history a quick crash course on what happened with the economy? It looks like things were going so right.

The only things that really come to mind are People Power Revolution, Mt. Pinatubo, the rapid population explosion, nepotism...


Was Marcos really that bad? One of the things people hated about him was his declaration of Martial Law; in the most democratic nation in asia this was seen as tyrannical. I'm thinking though, was this man any different from other leaders like Lee Kuan Yew, to whom many credit the rise of Singapore to?

As they say, history is written by the winners. And i'm left questioning as to how much of what I read is actually an exaggeration regarding Marcos and how much of it is true.

A few of you here lived in that era, and experienced it first-hand... i'm very interested in your views on what really happened.

Thanks!

Wow, it seems like the Philippines was on pace to becoming a developed nation (at least aesthetically, from the pictures)...

Would anyone mind giving those of us who are unfamiliar with recent Filipino history a quick crash course on what happened with the economy? It looks like things were going so right.

The only things that really come to mind are People Power Revolution, Mt. Pinatubo, the rapid population explosion, nepotism...


Was Marcos really that bad? One of the things people hated about him was his declaration of Martial Law; in the most democratic nation in asia this was seen as tyrannical. I'm thinking though, was this man any different from other leaders like Lee Kuan Yew, to whom many credit the rise of Singapore to?

As they say, history is written by the winners. And i'm left questioning as to how much of what I read is actually an exaggeration regarding Marcos and how much of it is true.

A few of you here lived in that era, and experienced it first-hand... i'm very interested in your views on what really happened.

Thanks!

Reading that Mazinger Z shrine, I discovered that Aphrodite A died and was martyred to defend Mazinger Z. (Martyr talaga). It made me sad.

Here are pictures and the storyline of her demise.

Blocking shots for Mazinger Z
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a137/ECdoesit/aphrodite5.jpg

The Death of Aphrodite A
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a137/ECdoesit/aphrodite8.jpg

MAZINGER Z EPISODE 74: THE DEATH OF APHRODITE ACE
1. STORY:
The episode that anyone who is a fan of Aphrodite Ace should see is Episode 74 where she was destroyed. This is not only because it is the best episode with Aphrodite Ace as a central figure but also because it is one of the best Mazinger Z episodes ever. This represented the culmination of all that Aphrodite Ace and Sayaka have been going through together since the beginning of the series and gave as a deeper insight into the relationship between the pilots and their mechs. The episode began normally. Koji went out to teach Boss' cousin how to drive a bike while an enemy monster appeared. Since Koji was having fun Sayaka had to go out alone with Aphrodite Ace to face the monster. Soon she saw she was no match for the quick, winged mech especially its most deadly attack. Shooting feathers with then exploded with great force when its chest beam hit them. This soon infuriated Sayaka. Her precious Aphrodite Ace was being trashed because of Koji's irresponsibility. In the meantime Koji has a terrible accident while tyring to teach and is taken back to the Institute. Eventually the mecha beast leaves Aphrodite Ace and Boss Borot and flies to the Institute. Boss leaves to help but Sayaka stays where she is. Time and time again her Aphrodite Ace is damaged and she can't take it anymore. She can't bear to lose her, not because of Koji's irresponsibility.

Koji forces himself out of bed, even with a bad head injury, and goes to Mazinger to fight the enemy. However it soon becomes clear that he cannot match the mecha beast in his weak physical condition. Meanwhile Dr. Yumi is talking to Sayaka over the radio reminding her that Aphrodite is just a robot and, in the end, life is more important. She looks at the reflection of her beloved mech on the surface in the water but has to agree with her father and races back to help. She arrives just as the mecha beast is about to shoot its feathers into Mazinger. Sayaka bravely steps forward and blocks the shots with Aphrodite Ace. Time and time again the mecha beast swoops in and Aphrodite and Sayaka block the feathers. Koji shouts out Sayaka's name and Sayaka says that Aphrodite is sacrificing herself for Mazinger, while tears pour out of her eyes. With those words come the chest beams from the mecha monster.

In a great explotion Aphrodite Ace dies as Koji screams out Sayaka's name again. Reinvigorated by the desire to avenge their friend, Koji and Mazinger stand and defeat the mecha beast, cutting it in half with the Iron Cutter. After the battle is done Mazinger runs to Aphrodite's remains where, miraculously, Sayaka survived the explotion. It seems that, even in the end, Aphrodite protected her pilot. In a rare event, Koji is honestly humbled at what was done for him. He apologizes to Sayaka but she tells him to give thanks to Aphrodite, tears still coming from her eyes. Koji does so.

As Mazinger gently takes Sayaka in its hand and lifts her she asks Koji if he can send Aphrodite Ace to a better place, a place where she can be in peace. Koji nods and with the Rust Hurricane he sends her remains into the winds. As he does so an image of Aphrodite Ace appears as it slowly backs away and disappears. Koji seems in awe of this while Sayaka yells out "Good bye Aphrodite Ace! Good bye!"

Reading that Mazinger Z shrine, I discovered that Aphrodite A died and was martyred to defend Mazinger Z. (Martyr talaga). It made me sad.

Here are pictures and the storyline of her demise.

Blocking shots for Mazinger Z
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a137/ECdoesit/aphrodite5.jpg

The Death of Aphrodite A
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a137/ECdoesit/aphrodite8.jpg

MAZINGER Z EPISODE 74: THE DEATH OF APHRODITE ACE
1. STORY:
The episode that anyone who is a fan of Aphrodite Ace should see is Episode 74 where she was destroyed. This is not only because it is the best episode with Aphrodite Ace as a central figure but also because it is one of the best Mazinger Z episodes ever. This represented the culmination of all that Aphrodite Ace and Sayaka have been going through together since the beginning of the series and gave as a deeper insight into the relationship between the pilots and their mechs. The episode began normally. Koji went out to teach Boss' cousin how to drive a bike while an enemy monster appeared. Since Koji was having fun Sayaka had to go out alone with Aphrodite Ace to face the monster. Soon she saw she was no match for the quick, winged mech especially its most deadly attack. Shooting feathers with then exploded with great force when its chest beam hit them. This soon infuriated Sayaka. Her precious Aphrodite Ace was being trashed because of Koji's irresponsibility. In the meantime Koji has a terrible accident while tyring to teach and is taken back to the Institute. Eventually the mecha beast leaves Aphrodite Ace and Boss Borot and flies to the Institute. Boss leaves to help but Sayaka stays where she is. Time and time again her Aphrodite Ace is damaged and she can't take it anymore. She can't bear to lose her, not because of Koji's irresponsibility.

Koji forces himself out of bed, even with a bad head injury, and goes to Mazinger to fight the enemy. However it soon becomes clear that he cannot match the mecha beast in his weak physical condition. Meanwhile Dr. Yumi is talking to Sayaka over the radio reminding her that Aphrodite is just a robot and, in the end, life is more important. She looks at the reflection of her beloved mech on the surface in the water but has to agree with her father and races back to help. She arrives just as the mecha beast is about to shoot its feathers into Mazinger. Sayaka bravely steps forward and blocks the shots with Aphrodite Ace. Time and time again the mecha beast swoops in and Aphrodite and Sayaka block the feathers. Koji shouts out Sayaka's name and Sayaka says that Aphrodite is sacrificing herself for Mazinger, while tears pour out of her eyes. With those words come the chest beams from the mecha monster.

In a great explotion Aphrodite Ace dies as Koji screams out Sayaka's name again. Reinvigorated by the desire to avenge their friend, Koji and Mazinger stand and defeat the mecha beast, cutting it in half with the Iron Cutter. After the battle is done Mazinger runs to Aphrodite's remains where, miraculously, Sayaka survived the explotion. It seems that, even in the end, Aphrodite protected her pilot. In a rare event, Koji is honestly humbled at what was done for him. He apologizes to Sayaka but she tells him to give thanks to Aphrodite, tears still coming from her eyes. Koji does so.

As Mazinger gently takes Sayaka in its hand and lifts her she asks Koji if he can send Aphrodite Ace to a better place, a place where she can be in peace. Koji nods and with the Rust Hurricane he sends her remains into the winds. As he does so an image of Aphrodite Ace appears as it slowly backs away and disappears. Koji seems in awe of this while Sayaka yells out "Good bye Aphrodite Ace! Good bye!"

^^ yah I think so... well thats all I can get ... (in memory of aphrodite A) heheh.. :D
how come u know this type of cartoons and ur younger than me. ive never seen this, even in late 80s

^^ yah I think so... well thats all I can get ... (in memory of aphrodite A) heheh.. :D
how come u know this type of cartoons and ur younger than me. ive never seen this, even in late 80s