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  • Everyday Life : A Philippine Christmas (1922 – 1941)
    Posted November 13, 2022
  • Everyday Life: The Balintawak Beer Brewery
    Posted July 17, 2022
  • The Military: Flagships of the Asiatic Fleet (1930’s)
    Posted May 3, 2022
  • The Manila Elks Lodge “I am an American Day” Celebration
    Posted January 8, 2022
  • An Expats Life in Manila on The Eve of WWII- The 1941 Letters of Charles Mock
    Posted October 4, 2021
  • Manila Falls to the Imperial Japanese Army – January 1942
    Posted July 12, 2021
  • Everyday Life: Popular Brands and Products sold in the Philippines (1930s)
    Posted April 11, 2021
  • Everyday Life – Popular Consumer Products and Services Marketed in the Philippines in the 1920’s and 1930’s (Part one of two-the 1920’s)
    Posted January 16, 2021
  • Old Manila: The Plaza Lunch Plaza Goite, Escolta – ( Fred Harden Proprietor)
    Posted October 3, 2020
  • Voyage to Adventure in the Philippines (1935)
    Posted June 13, 2020
  • Philippine Inter-Island Travel Via Luxury Ships (1930’s)
    Posted January 16, 2020
  • The Military: WW2- The Defense of the Philippines – Top Military Commanders 1941/1942
    Posted October 5, 2019
  • Corregidor: The Bilibid Guard Battalion
    Posted July 9, 2019
  • Life on the Rock- Corregidor Island Fortress Pre WWII
    Posted April 7, 2019
  • A Trip to Baguio and Banaue (1940)
    Posted January 19, 2019
  • “Help Wanted”
    Posted October 6, 2018
  • Zamboanga Town- U.S. Outpost in Mindanao Island (1920s – 1930s)
    Posted July 9, 2018
  • Pre-WW2 Manila and American Military Sites – (A self-guided tour)
    Posted April 14, 2018
  • Manila and Principal Colonial Cities of Asia before WW2
    Posted January 7, 2018
  • “Baguio the Summer Resort and Beauty Spot of the Philippines” (1927)
    Posted October 1, 2017
  • The Manila Railroad (1920’s & 1930’s)
    Posted July 2, 2017
  • Baguio 1930’s – America’s Hill Station in Asia The Pines Hotel and other Lodgings
    Posted April 1, 2017
  • The Gold Mining Boom of the 1930’s
    Posted January 16, 2017
  • Manila in the 1920’s and 1930’s, A City with Four Personalities (American/Spanish/Chinese/Filipino)
    Posted January 16, 2017
  • Entertainment — Two Prominent Venues: The Santa Ana Cabaret and The Jai Alai Palace
    Posted January 16, 2017
  • U.S. Navy’s Asiatic Fleet Based in Manila
    Posted January 16, 2017
  • Air Travel in the 1930’s – The Iloilo-Negros Air Express Co. (INAEC)
    Posted January 16, 2017
  • Japanese Forces attack Legaspi and Zamboanga
    Posted January 16, 2017
  • The Road to Independence
    Posted October 2, 2016
  • Cars, Radio and Talking Movies Come to Manila in the Roaring Twenties
    Posted October 2, 2016
  • The Manila Hotel: “Nostalgia – The First 65 Years 1912-1977” By Historian Lewis Gleek
    Posted October 2, 2016
  • The Army and Navy Club of Manila
    Posted October 2, 2016
  • The Robert Dollar // American Mail Line and Canadian-Pacific Line serving the Philippines 1920’s/1930’s
    Posted October 2, 2016
  • War comes to the Mountain Resort City of Baguio –A Reconstruction from the Diary of James J. Halsema (2002)
    Posted October 2, 2016
  • The Philippines after WWI – Prominent American Businessmen in the Philippines 1910-1935
    Posted July 3, 2016
  • The American Chamber of Commerce Moves into the New Heacock Building on the Escolta – October 1939
    Posted July 3, 2016
  • Baguio as a Health Resort – 1920
    Posted July 3, 2016
  • The Philippine Department- US Army and Fort William McKinley in Pre WWII Years – The Story of US Army Officer George Moore
    Posted July 3, 2016
  • The Philippines First Commercial Air Line – PATCO (Philippine Aerial Taxi Company) “The Mile High Line” (1930”s)
    Posted July 3, 2016
  • The Imperial Japanese Army takes charge of Manila, The War’s beginning December 1941-January 1942 (Headlines from the Manila Tribune)
    Posted July 3, 2016
  • Governor Generals and High Commissioners 1900 – 1946
    Posted April 2, 2016
  • Tom’s Dixie Kitchen and Tom’s Oriental Grill, Plaza Goite, The Escolta
    Posted April 2, 2016
  • A Trip to Pagsanjan Falls (1920)
    Posted April 2, 2016
  • American Defenses of Corregidor and Manila Bay – The Quiet Years 1922–1940
    Posted April 2, 2016
  • The Significance of the “Clipper Service” – Pan American Airways (1935)
    Posted April 2, 2016
  • American Defenses of Corregidor and Manila Bay
    Posted April 2, 2016
  • American Round Tables in Manila
    Posted January 13, 2016
  • Firewalkers in Our Garden by Joshena M. Ingersol Golden Years in the Philippines
    Posted January 13, 2016
  • A Bachelors Life in Manila by Louis Gleek (1975)
    Posted January 13, 2016
  • Letter of Captain George Steiger, US Army (1941)
    Posted January 13, 2016
  • A Trip to Manila (by Stan Cohen-Wings to the Orient)
    Posted January 13, 2016
  • Diary of Captain George Steiger US Army-POW by His Family (1940)
    Posted January 13, 2016
  • Manila Fifty Five Years Ago by A.V.H Hardendorp (1975)
    Posted October 11, 2015
  • Community Institutions – Club Life- Preserving American Identity
    Posted October 11, 2015
  • Manila Shops
    Posted October 11, 2015
  • The People / the Military: Apart from, but a Part of, the Community
    Posted October 11, 2015
  • Clothes for your Oriental Adventure
    Posted October 11, 2015
  • War in Pacific Skies – The Philippine Islands
    Posted October 11, 2015
  • Through the Philippines – The Philippine Capital, Old and New
    Posted August 14, 2015
  • Americans in the Philippines and Their Rights as Citizens in America’s Far Eastern Possessions
    Posted August 14, 2015
  • American in the Philippines by One of Them
    Posted August 14, 2015
  • Letter from “Betty”, Wife of the Captain of U.S. Destroyer Stewart DD 224
    Posted August 14, 2015
  • Across the Pacific by China Clipper
    Posted August 14, 2015
  • Bataan’s Own – The First Days of War
    Posted August 14, 2015
  • The Philippines After WWI
    Posted May 11, 2015
  • Daily Life
    Posted May 11, 2015
  • Entertainment
    Posted May 11, 2015
  • The Military
    Posted May 11, 2015
  • Travel (Getting Home and Back)
    Posted May 11, 2015
  • End of an Era (WW2)
    Posted May 11, 2015

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