Old Dominican Republic

[Chip]

Speaking of old cities... one reason I like Santiago so much is it is similar to the old Charleston my father grew up in with narrow streets, grocery stores on every corner and kids playing everywhere.

 

[Kyle]

or you could just look at the pics on this website :ermm:

Old Pictures of Dominican Republic

 

[jackichan]

Quick question,

I have a folder on my Facebook page of old photos of Santo Domingo, Bonao, La Vega, the South Coast, Sosua, and some other places in the DR from the early 60's. Is there a way that i can put a direct link to just these photos here?


Some of these photos are unbelievable becuase of their age.

Frank

Yes sir!

PM me your fb password, lol

 

[frank recktenwald]

or you could just look at the pics on this website :ermm:

Old Pictures of Dominican Republic

Thanks that was interesting.

 

[Chirimoya]

There's an excellent Facebook group called The Old Republic. I think many of the photos in this thread are from there.
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[yb1]

Pichardo, can you help me and my cousins try and figure out where some of these pictures are from on the island. We tried to figure some of them out, but sadly, our father's and uncles have passed away and we don't recognize anything.

Old Dominican Photos pictures by ktmfrank - Photobucket

This one is Macao Beach in Punta Cana - was that an old house or restaurant on stilts?

Macao beach now

 

[frank12]

YB1,

THanks a million for this answer!! Me and my cousins have been wondering where and the hell some of these pictures were taken. I really appreciate this answer for this particular picture!

Thanks, Frank

This one is Macao Beach in Punta Cana - was that an old house or restaurant on stilts?

Macao beach now

 

[Kyle]

Thanks that was interesting.

my comment was not to dilute his wonderful work. it was just a reference.

 

[La Rubia]

my comment was not to dilute his wonderful work. it was just a reference.

His wonderful work should have contained a link to the original website or given reference to it. Cutting and pasting pictures without crediting the source does not make them "his" work.

The common theme I see in his photo montages is a lack of acknowledgement of intellectual property. Doesn't detract from the pictures, just speaks to the integrity of the poster.

I know this has come up before. Robert thinks its ok as others do it. I disagree. It bothers me as much as it bothers some when posters refer to "The DOMINICAN". It's an educator's curse, perhaps. Just because others do it doesn't make it right.

 

[Rafael Perez]

Pichardo, Un millon de gracias!!! Love the old pics you posted. You know, after seeing those pictures and comparing it with the modern looks that most of these places have gets me a lil depressed. A great feeling of nostalgia overwhelms me seeing the houses mixed with the mountainous backgrounds, and then the wide large family cars that used to roam the streets..... Ok, no more Emo mode!

 

[PICHARDO]

Pichardo, Un millon de gracias!!! Love the old pics you posted. You know, after seeing those pictures and comparing it with the modern looks that most of these places have gets me a lil depressed. A great feeling of nostalgia overwhelms me seeing the houses mixed with the mountainous backgrounds, and then the wide large family cars that used to roam the streets..... Ok, no more Emo mode!

Anytime!

Me too! I have the same feelings!

 

[Onions/Carrots]

Anytime!

Me too! I have the same feelings!

Economically, we don't see eye to eye but as far as the OLD DR is concerned we do. I want a time machine to go back to the DR 1900-1930 darnit!!!

 

[PICHARDO]

Santiago:

 

[bachata]

Waoo Trujillo and Balaguer did a good job, they transformed that onto a modern city...

What it is today!

JJ

 

[PICHARDO]

SD 1965

 

[PICHARDO]

 

[Onions/Carrots]

Waoo Trujillo and Balaguer did a good job, they transformed that onto a modern city...

What it is today!

JJ

I am not interested in transformations into modern cities. I am interested in the aesthetic appeal of pre-Trujillo DR. As stated previously, I would love to have lived in that time period. There is a certain sense of an otherworldly spiritual feeling that those time invoke in me. It's as if the mystery of those times and the difficulty of getting from one place to the next created a sense of permanence in the region within which you were raised. The concept of being a Cibaeno for example brought greater import when you were tied to your region by reasons of mobility being constrained.

Today's DR, one can flash from one region to the next within hours thus breaking down that sense of regionalism which invokes feelings of permanence and history. Today's DR with its rapid movements of people from one area to the next is destroying those folkloric emanations of solitude and of separation. Today's DR will produce just one DR within which all barriers of difference will produce one continuum of muddled along "sameness-es" to put it in a clumsy way.

As an example the inhabitants of Constanza pre-Trujillo era would take near 2 weeks to get to La Vega. Those weary travelers upon arriving at La Vega were a welcome sight to the Veganos for they rarely saw one another. That reality of separation and solitude created greater than life characters for the few who traveled around. Their importance was of an exponential value. My grandparents tell of a time when travelers upon arriving at a different town were welcomed into people's homes to stay a night or two even if they were complete strangers.

With the voluminous amount of travelers criss-crossing every vector within the DR any of that folkloric transmissions are completely lost. It gets to the point that a traveler is just another one of countless thousands going hither and thither with themselves the locals having little meaning besides being street vendors and viewing the tourists as being just one more tourist or one more traveler. The meaning and significance is lost.

That's what I see when I view the Old DR. It's folklore is forever lost and what replaces it is just one more metropolis paved in concrete and repeated the same the world over. The Old DR I feel was unique in this sense of solitude where one could see the difference between one region and the next and one city and the next. There were boundaries separating cities and towns. That too is slowly being lost. In time, whatever little is left of the Old DR will only remain in these pictures.

 

[Rafael Perez]

Damn, what you said is sad, but true! =(

 

[Gurabo444]

Here are some old pictures of Santiago de los Caballeros, which was the most economically important, and populated city of the eastern part of the Hispaniola, until Trujillo took power, and concentrated all the power in Santo Domingo, thus sending Santiago into a second place.

Sorry if these have been posted before.
Posiblemente la fotograf?a mas antigua de la ciudad de Santiago (1860) antes del gran incendio de 1863

Las tres cruses, principios de los 60s.

Finales de los 60.

Avenida Circunvalacion Recien Inaugurada a mediados de los 70s.
este es el tramo del puente Hermanos Pati?os y La Avenida Valerio.
Fotos de JULIO GONZALEZ (del Libro El Santiago de Los 70s)

Lado del Rio Yaque y donde estaba el viejo puente Duarte, al fondo se ve el monumento.

Monumento a la Paz de Trujillo (hoy H?roes de la Restauraci?n de la Rep?blica) en 1959:

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Otra mas de la calle 30 de Marzo.
Este es frente al parque Duarte entre la Calle 16 de Agosto y Calle El Sol (1971)
FOTO DE JULIO GONZALEZ (Del libro El Santiago de los 70s)

Creo que el Cafe Antillas todavia existe. Alguien que me lo confirme. Por cierto el sentido vial de sur al norte en ese tiempo. Fijense el ambiente que hay en esa calle. Por ahi se ve la entrada (o donde termina) de la calle General Cabrera. El tramo desde esa esquina hasta la calle Espa?a es peatonal en la actualidad.

Panoramica de Santiago de Los Caballeros, 1950.

Aspecto de un parque de Santiago, 1950.

Aspecto de un parque de Santiago, 1950.

Calle 30 de Marzo, 1950

Edificio Comercial de Santiago, 1951

Vistas desde el Monumento a principio de los 70s.
Fotos de Julio Amable Gonz?lez para el libro gr?fico llamado EL SANTIAGO DE LOS 70 en SANTIAGO de los Caballeros,Republica Dominicana para los a?os 70.

Lado de la calle del sol.

Lado de la Avenida Las Carreras esquina Rep de Argentina.

La ciudad por el lado de la Calle del Sol.

Mas fotos y informacion en esta pagina Santiago de Los Caballeros Santiago de los Caballeros

La ciudad vista desde el monumento

La ciudad vista por Las Carreras

 

[Gurabo444]

More pictures of La Hidalga Ciudad de Santiago de los Caballeros.


Iglesia de nuestra se?ora de la Altagracia, acaso luego de una misa 21 de enero. Erigida sede parroquial en 1874, fue eje vital de Pueblo Arriba, junto al Parque Col?n, uno de cuyos ?ngulos se observa en primer plano a la derecha.

La calle Del Sol en Pueblo Arriba, al fondo se distinguen el campanario de la Iglesia del Carmen y el palacio de la Gobernaci?n. Colecci?n personal Julia Amelia Cabral Tavarez de Thom?n. La foto no tiene fecha, pero por la vestimenta data de finales de los mil ochosientos y esta hubicada frente a lo que hoy es el Parque Col?n y al Pez Dorado.

Santiago a?os 60s

Aserradero La Fe a orillas del Yaque y lo que es hoy la Circunvalaci?n, n?tese el rio yaque a la derecha con su acerradero. Del lado izquierdo n?tese los terrenos elevados de la Fortaleza San Lu?s.

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Carretera Duarte, Santo Domingo - Santiago 1917-1922

Farmacia Normal

Puente Yaque

Varias del monumento.

Soldados Norteamericanos del cuerpo de paz, frente al Monumento de Santiago

Concluida la misa en la Iglesia de La Altagracia, marcharon al cementerio a llevar una ofrenda floral a la tumba de Fern?ndez Dom?nguez. N?tese H?ctor Aristy y Cama?o, saliendo de la iglesia de la Altagracia de Santiago.

Bajando la Calle del Sol, Santiago

FOTOS DEL ASALTO Y LLEGADA CUERPO DE PAZ

Lora Fernandez yace Muerto Por torpedo

Comandante Montes Arache, sobreviviente de la Batalla

Bar Hotel Mat?n

JOVENES REVOLUCIONARIOS E INSIGNIAS

One of my favorite ones. Nico Lora y su Banda de Perico Ripiao, Jacuagua, Santiago, 1948.