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Post by VeeVee on Dec 4, 2013 14:07:02 GMT -5
Manila Nostalgia... wow I mean wow. www.lougopal.com/manila/Check out the aerial view with the old Manila Polo Club grounds and Nielson/Ayala/Makati in the background. I think I can also see the buildings of Fort McKinley Photo from this segment: www.lougopal.com/manila/?p=1463
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Post by VeeVee on Apr 7, 2014 20:19:57 GMT -5
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Post by VeeVee on Oct 20, 2014 17:29:04 GMT -5
A remnant from the Manila Polo Club past... 1936
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Post by oklahoma on Oct 31, 2014 10:08:48 GMT -5
Hey Vic....Now that's what I call a cheap date (if it is the tab for a date). I realize that things were a heck of a lot cheaper back in those days (and so were wages), but for a ritzy joint like the Manila Polo Club, a drink being that cheap, I wonder what a snort in one of the "dives" in downtown Manila would cost??? Twenty Five cents, tops???
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Post by VeeVee on Nov 9, 2014 16:08:19 GMT -5
Remember the US Army privates were only paid $21/month back then It looks like it's a tab from a sailor on shore pass.
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Post by VeeVee on Dec 7, 2014 10:58:18 GMT -5
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Post by VeeVee on Jan 31, 2015 10:41:25 GMT -5
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Post by oklahoma on Feb 3, 2015 11:20:02 GMT -5
Hey Vic...The photo of a portion of the American Asiatic Fleet (Manila Nostalgia) got me to thinking of how it was such a pitifully, small force when matched up versus the much more formidable Japanese Navy at that early juncture of the Pacific War. As I understand it, the US Navy had only three Capital Ships, Cruisers, assigned to the Asiatic Fleet in 1941, the Boise, Houston and Marblehead. The latter was plastered to the point of nearly being lost (but survived to make it back to the States for repair), down in the fighting around Java, the Houston went down in the Battle of the Java Sea and the Boise ran aground, suffering damages that kept her out of the fighting (and probably saved her from a fate ala the Houston and Marblehead, to fight another day). Those old, "four piper" Destroyers were no match for the newer Japanese Tin Cans, although they did put up a pretty good delaying action fight. Many were sunk or driven back to Australia. As I, also understand it, a couple finished the War, chasing Nazi Admiral Donetz's German U-Boats in the Atlantic. Of course, we are all aware that Admiral Hart pulled the bulk (including the Cruisers) of his forces out of Manila Bay early on, leaving the Submarines a bit longer. It was a dismal period for the Allied Naval effort. Better times were to follow. Just sayin'.
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Post by VeeVee on Feb 4, 2015 9:17:59 GMT -5
They couldn't survive without air cover and there wasn't a functioning naval base anyway after Cavite was destroyed. A dismal period indeed...
You know I've always chuckled every time I hear or read about how no reinforcements could reach the Philippines because of the pacific fleet's destruction in Pearl Harbor. I believe that even if Pearl Harbor hadn't happened, the US navy wasn't strong enough to force its way through to the Philippines either way, carriers and all. Heck it had its hands full in Guadalcanal which was at the farthest reaches of the Japanese. It certainly wouldn't have been able to force its way to the Philippines in the first 4 months through thousands of miles of enemy held territory and supply lines.
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Post by VeeVee on Feb 11, 2015 22:59:39 GMT -5
Well since this Manila Nostalgia thread has also morphed into a "Manila Polo Club" nostalgia as well here's something both Manila Polo Club and 26th Cavalry related. It's widely known to us WW2 Philippines history buffs that the 26th Cavalry polo team played the Manila Polo Club team at Fort Stotsenburg on Dec. 7th, 1941.... and lost. But not in May, 1937. It looks like the 26th's team beat the MPC.
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Post by VeeVee on Feb 14, 2015 22:56:59 GMT -5
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Post by VeeVee on Feb 20, 2015 9:06:40 GMT -5
Bayview Hotel 1930's?
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