The Foul-Smelling Buro on Batangueño Tables of Yore
Buro jars at a stall in a public market. Among the most frequently told family dinner stories my late mother loved to tell was this one t...Read More
Showing posts with label Nostalgia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nostalgia. Show all posts
The Daily Batangas-Manila Commuters of Yore
A typical BLTBCo bus in the seventies to nineties. Image source: BLTBCo_1918 on Flickr. Back when I first went away to college in mid-1...Read More
Early 20th Century Postcards Show Nostalgic Images of Old Manila
Dewey Boulevard, Manila (presently Roxas Boulevard). An obscure collection of postcards simply called the “Rudyuski Collection” sits amo...Read More
The Evolution of DLSL's Frontage, 1962-Present
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 The picture above was from the 1963 yearbook called the ‘Sabre,’ which I colourised to give it a bit more life. At the ...Read More
The Day John ‘Died” and Why It’s Always Best to Verify News that Someone You Know Has Died
Of all people, it was my sister who lives in Auckland from whom I first heard that one of our contemporaries had passed on. Her message wa...Read More
More Classic DLSL Pictures Colourised (Foundation Week Edition)
ORIGINAL 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 The Torch Parade! Now this picture, I am very sure, was taken in December of 1969. Th...Read More
More Classic DLSL Pictures Colourised (Foundation Week Edition)
ORIGINAL 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 The picture above was the most difficult colourising job of this series because there ...Read More
More Classic DLSL Pictures Colourised (Foundation Week Edition)
ORIGINAL 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 The picture above appears to be of a student organisation, likely taken in the late se...Read More
More Classic DLSL Pictures Colourised (Foundation Week Edition)
ORIGINAL 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 I recognise some of the alumni/ae in the picture because they were schoolmates of my y...Read More
More Classic DLSL Pictures Colourised (Foundation Week Edition)
ORIGINAL 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 The picture above looks very much like it was taken during the commencement exercises ...Read More
More Classic DLSL Pictures Colourised (Foundation Week Edition)
ORIGINAL 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 In the picture above, Ms. Alice Rivera of the Grade School Department with what looks ...Read More
More Classic DLSL Pictures Colourised (Foundation Week Edition)
ORIGINAL 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 I am not sure about this, but the picture above looks like one of a student organisati...Read More
More Classic DLSL Pictures Colorised (Foundation Week Edition)
ORIGINAL 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 The picture above appears to have been taken during a morning assembly held at what i...Read More
The Evolution of DLSL's Frontage, 1962-Present
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 The picture above is really the face of modern day DLSL. During the Presidency of the late Br. Rafael Donato starting ...Read More
The Evolution of DLSL's Frontage, 1962-Present
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 The picture above shows the second uplift given to the façade when I was in school, and I think within two or three year...Read More
The Evolution of DLSL's Frontage, 1962-Present
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 I moved to La Salle High School from OLRA as a Grade 5 student in school year 1969-70. There were two facelifts given t...Read More
Joy and Tragedy: The Story of DLSL High School 1991 Part I
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 [Last weekend, I attended one of the activities being held by the DLSL HS Class of 1991 in preparation for their 25t...Read More
Classic B&W DLSL Pictures Colorised with Graphic Software
A faculty gathering of some sort at the old chapel behind the original Brothers' House, which students of the eighties and onwards proba...Read More
Classic B&W DLSL Pictures Colorised with Graphic Software
Probably a faculty Christmas party at what used to be the old library behind the gymnasium. This picture was taken in the seventies, obviou...Read More
Classic B&W DLSL Pictures Colorised with Graphic Software
An affair of some sort at the Br. Henry Virgil Memorial Gymnasium, which at the time did not even have the name yet. In the picture are the...Read More
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