Comment from: dixonchic35
"It is incredible how much you remember. I frequented the same places because my school was just down the road (Mendiola), but I barely remember the names of the theatres and the shops. This is why I check your entries everyday, even though I've never laid eyes on Asingan. You take me back to places I haven't thought about for the longest time.
Thank you.
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Thank you too, Lena..:)
I can never forget Manila as long as I live. Especially the theatres. I spent most of my time inside them. My favorite 2nd run theatres were: Esquire at Raon, then Mayfair same street but you have to cross Avenida..Further on is Palace Theatre. If I am not not mistaken this was once known as Astor theatre, a burlesque house. And it is just a stone throw away from Sta. Cruz Church!..Then near it was Inday theatre, another burlesque house..I guess patrons will just change theatres if they did not have enough from the other one...Of course to those who are addicts ( mahilig ) there is still the King's and the Dragon at Ongpin, Chinatown if they want some more!.
For the 2nd run Hollywood double features there was Society theatre along Echague, and along Quezon Blvd. you have Main, then Times, then Boulevard theatres..On the otherside of Quezon Blvd. are the Life and Dalisay theatres, homes of Filipino movies ( mostly Black and White during my time )..But I hated Filipino movies when I was a kid. I thought only the servants and maids were watching those movies because they can not understand English! I was wrong of course..Now a days I wish they saved some copies of those vintage Tagalog movies..I only see those Pilipino movies in Dagupan or Urdaneta. I believed seeing them in Manila would be a waste of time because there are better Hollywood movies to see before I would go back to Pangasinan at the end of my Manila holiday.---#
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Count me in! Im a Manila fanatic too. Some of my friends wonder why I make it a point to spend several days in Manila, while they hurry back towards their provinces.
It was in Manila where I became a man. It was where I made that transition from high school to a college independent. It just holds too much memories, and for me the best years of my life was during that time. I always compare my life's events with what happened during those years of my life.
Time seemed stuck in those years, so when I hear a song Id usually place it into old, as in the time of my father and backward, or modern as in elementary and Highschool, and Id usually categorize the songs during my college as the current hits. So,it brings confusion when I say' "Bago lang yan kanta yan'" because what I mean is I was already in college when that song broke the charts, and college was sooo long ago.
And of course, those songs, and much of everything in fact are associated with Manila, the Manila of my time.
....I keep coming back to Manila.....
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