Ships are anchored in Manila Bay. Army & Navy Club, Elks Club, and Luneta Hotel on the right; the University Club Apartments had not been built yet. The 1926 Manila Carnival is set up on the Luneta. To the left and closer is the Rizal Monument. Manila Hotel is on the left with Intramuros father behind it. A lot of different landmark building can be seen in the distance. The new Manila City Hall had not been built yet.
War Department. Army Air Forces, US National Archives
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Manila and Luneta Park as viewed from over Manila Bay, Philippines, Nov. 24, 1939, 3 PM
Army & Navy Club, Elks Club, University Club Apartments, Bay View Hotel, and the new under construction US High Commissioner Residence that would become the US Embassy are on the right side of the picture. Luneta (Rizal) Park is in the center. Manila Hotel with the Old Spanish city of Intramuros behind it is on the left side of the picture. Lots of landmark building can be seen in the distance. Manila City Hall is there but the clock tower has yet to be built. In the far distance Tondo Church can be seen. How many others can you name?
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To the left of the Army & Navy Club in the bay is a sea going pump dredge that sucks up the bottom of water bodies and sends it through pipes to where it is to be deposited. The solids settle out and the water drains off. This is what was used to reclaim the land used to build the High Commissioners Residence that would become the US Embassy of today. To support buildings close together large holes are drilled vertically down through the soft sandy soil to bedrock and filled with concrete that supports the buildings from sinking into the soft soil.
War Department. Army Air Forces, US National Archives
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Looking southeast from over Manila Bay.
From a time before comfortable and fast airliner service when Manila, Philippines was THE exotic Asian place to travel to for holiday. When Manila truly was the Pearl of the Orient. The Manila Hotel was the luxury hotel where they stayed. Japan’s invasion of Dec. 1941 and the USA’s invasion 1944-1945 took it all away and it never returned.
War Department. Army Air Forces, US National Archives
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Formally a favorite meeting place for US Army and Navy personnel on duty in the Philippines. The building was shelled and burned during the Battle for Manila, Feb. 1945. Today it has been rebuilt to the luxurious Rizal Park Hotel. The building was in bad condition about to fall in on itself. The outside shell was saved but the inside was demolished and rebuilt new saving as much of the original as possible.
US Army Signal Corps photo, US National Archives
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Today it has been rebuilt to the luxurious Rizal Park Hotel. The building was in bad condition about to fall in on itself. The outside shell was saved but the inside was demolished and rebuilt new saving as much of the original as possible.
US Army Signal Corps, US Library of Congress
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