That picture was taken back in the 80s before Pte. Balaguer started the construction of El Gran Teatro Del Cibao....What year is this foto from? And isn't the theater where that road is now?
Calle Mella esquina Vicente Estrella (Calle Los Pinos) Santiago.
I can see the show-repair guy seating by the door in his shop.
Nothing to do, sow business!
JJ
Regarding that house.
This is one of those structures that really needs to be preserved..both for historical and cultural reasons.. they are the ones that give the city its charm...we don't need a bunch of cement buildings with no character besides the almighty DR$$$$$.....
HB
Thinking about it, this might be one of those few buildings that survived the 1863 (?) fire that was set to screw the Spaniards...Is it one owned by Popi Bermudez??
It was the only home that survived the intentional torching because they had stored water for the militias fighting around the area. The temp in the air provoked the massive amount of water in the tinacos to evaporate prematurely and the house turned into a vapor bath of sorts during the worst of the fire. There was no home next to either side as it had some "callejones" leading to two back wells around the rear.
This house served as the meeting and command post during the US intervention of the early 1900's in the central area of the country. From here guerrillas planned and carried out attacks on US units at will, and the house was never suspected as all doors were fully opened and the inside exposed. Little the US soldiers understood that the home was partitioned in a way that the house was split into two rooms, which allowed occupants to see to the outside, but blocked outsiders from looking into the hidden space.
There's a long history on that home that can fill books, much can be read upon in the records of the Archivo Historico de Santiago.
The house is in the same road that leads to the Fortaleza atop the hill.
Regarding that house.
This is one of those structures that really needs to be preserved..both for historical and cultural reasons.. they are the ones that give the city its charm...we don't need a bunch of cement buildings with no character besides the almighty DR$$$$$.....
HB
Thinking about it, this might be one of those few buildings that survived the 1863 (?) fire that was set to screw the Spaniards...Is it one owned by Popi Bermudez??
The two front doors to Calle Mella is a colmado but the two doors on the lateral Vicente Estrella, one used to be a shoe-repair and the next one is a lawyer's office.Which house? Club Santiago or the one on Mella? There are a jillion houses like that on Vicente Estrella and side streets. ALL of them for sale and without roofs and such. I dont know what you would do with them besides tear them down. BEsides who wants a house not hurricane resistant?
JJ you sure it is a shoe repair place, now? This is the side street to Iglesia Altagracia, right? It was a colmado when I went there. It has a Presidente cooler in the corner and 2 freezers one for the "high quality" Coca Cola and another for the crap brand cola. There is a banca across the street and a bakery on the other corner
This is a photo that few have seen before, but the one sitting in the foreground is an 8yo Jose Franciso Pe?a Gomez! That picture was taken in Mao.
Great Idea, Frank. You could leave the beautiful people
in this one, and have a beautiful places thread for all of these great pictures!
The Francisco Pena Gomez pic is priceless!