 | what a waste. upgrading them would do wonders. no wonder the tourism in baguio lacks the oomph. as is nalang. |
 | ooh wow! can you take more photos of this?! all angles, before they demolish it!!!! |
| why would they destroy this, anyway |
 | Yes to all your questions, Kelly. I have taken several photos. The house with that old fireplace has been sold. A hotel perhaps will soon rice in its place, but hopefully not. |
 | where's this one? i'd like to shoot it too sana. baguio stones pa naman. |
| Ha-ha-ha, Ric! Para kang di taga-Baguio. Let me give you a sermon -- "Baguio is a walkable city."
So, there. This bottle-shaped fireplace could be found along Bukaneg. You could actually miss it...
The theater of course is the back of Plaza (?) Theater near People's Park. I took the angle from my dentist's clinic, upstairs, Victoria grocery. |
| ricmaniquis wrote on Nov 14, '07, edited on Nov 14, '07  Ha-ha-ha, Ric! Para kang di taga-Baguio. Let me give you a sermon -- "Baguio is a walkable city."
So, there. This bottle-shaped fireplace could be found along Bukaneg. You could actually miss it...
The theater of course is the back of Plaza (?) Theater near People's Park. I took the angle from my dentist's clinic, upstairs, Victoria grocery.  thanks chi! yes, i think i know where this is in bukaneg. as for the plaza theater, i just did some frontatge shots a few days ago. it looks like a big advertisement for a photo studio. i'll post the pic soon. thanks again! |
 | Tsk tsk tsk... What's happening to our city! |
 | jrgamina wrote on Nov 14, '07, edited on Nov 14, '07  This place I am truly familiar with, it is where our family served the citizens of Baguio. Starting from my grandfather who was the president of Baguio Driver's Association during the '60s and also where my father picked up passengers for Aurora Hill while pursuing his engineering degree. Behind the theatre was a small store/coffee shop where I used to sleep once in a while (mere memories from childhood). If I remember correctly, the yellow establishment used to be a billiard place where my father used to make bets in billiards using a single hand while competing with an opponent who uses both hands (he was good and usually won the bets with Tiongsan - stories I've heard growing up)... Azandas was the word spoken in that street during those days... People come and go in this street and last I visited, I couldn't even see any old timers anymore... Everyone who walked this street knew everyone during those days, from parents to children. Lately, things has dramatically changed. There are so many people in Baguio that you hardly can bump in to someone you know... I miss the Old Baguio... |
 | There's another old house with Baguio stone being demolished along Kisad Road. Sayang, sayang, sayang. I almost want to walk over and ask them to give the rocks to me!
"Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got til it's gone.
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot!"
-- Joni Mitchell
Seems like she's singing about Baguio. |
| Looking forward to the next installments in this series! |
 | Decay infront of our very eyes and there's not a damn thing we can do about it! Sayang! |
 | this is really a good series. more, please! we actually should do this to all the places we live in, as these places trace the geographies of our beings. sayang talaga... |
 | ayana kadi iti bukaneg st.? hehehe..tagal ko ng di nakakagala within baguio..saan ba ang bukaneg chi?at ng mapasyalan na rin ito. |
| is this located at the engineer's hill area? |
| thanks for sharing this images chi...might be good to start shooting at such structures, dont live the old mido inn behind besides the old mercury drugstore along session rd...its already closed and i guess it wont be that long before it would be demolished too. |
 | tsk tsk tsk...i still love the old baguio, too crowded up there as of now |
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 | There are seven old movie theaters in Baguio -- six of them have been decommissioned -- overran by the new mall theaters. |
 | We used to fear this house since our grade school to highschool, it was ukept before and if i remember right it was painted gray. |
 | I remember this house. The Santa Marias (Rina) used to lived in this house. It is near the Teacher's Camp. |
 | no waday pilak, waday maaramid. no magay pilak, magay maaramid. Waday pilak tako koma tapno waday maaramid. |
 | carinokmg wrote on Nov 22, '07, edited on Nov 22, '07 isn't this the old theatre building ka-hilera ng u-need which has been transformed into another of baguio's ukay-ukay havens? |
| Yes, Dr. K. It is the Plaza Theater near U-Need Grocery. It has a very elegant foyer, staircase and balcony right at the entrance, just like a small Cultural Center.
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 | what a shame! i dont know how are laws work back home,but here in the UK they have what they call listed buildings that no matter what they wont be "demolished"as they have already been part of history.this buildings will be protected and some restored if possible. |
| I'm afraid the cluster of vintage government cottages will soon follow suit. At least two new big buildings (in modern styles) are being built right beside the old cottages near the DOLE compound.
We'll try to get pix of the ongoing constructions there when we get back to Baguio from out of town work. |
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