Another Barcelo ad
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- Thread starter PICHARDO
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Old Dominican Republic
Being in DR in the 80s and 90s must have been great. Before the drugs, and the ghetto Dominican Yorks.
When we got married [1976], my in-laws never even locked their doors at night. Everyone [six kids including Mr. AE] just came home whenever, went to bed, and left the 3 doors wide open. Open front porch with no iron grillwork. Furniture out there 24/7. This is smack dab in the middle of Santo Domingo, not far from Centro de los Heroes, one house off Churchiill [Jimenez Moya down that end].
Today there is grillwork everywhere, and my mother-in-law would have padlocks on all the grillwork doors all day long. The only one that stayed open was the one to the back yard, but there were dogs back there.
Yeah, it was. I didn't appreciate at the time, but now I find myself wishing the old aldea back.
This and part 1 is beautiful. In a matter of fact, I liked all of them. Such memories!
It was great, eventhough there was a sugar crisis as well as flour, I lived in the capital in the late 80s, when Balaguer was in power. Back then, I was a kid, and the only thing that I was scared was the infamous child kidnappings for their organs rumors...that was about it. It was happy times.
Barcelo ad featuring Santiago
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That's why I keep hammering the issue at the RECESSION thread. How can anyone in their right mind say that the DR of today is a much better place to be in than the DR of yesteryear? To HELL with all the technology and all the schools opening up. It's better to be walking over a dirt floor in your house in safety than have a concrete floor and walls but live in fear when you walk out the door. Safety and security is paramount. Once those are secured then you build an economy.
The general mood of the DR populace due to all this strife changes as well. Those for whom were it not for all the crime today would have had a happy go lucky demeanor are hardened. What choice do they have? All of that GHETTO-trash from the states has changed the way by which Dominicans treat one another. What is needed is safety and security first then economic improvement second. They got it ass backwards. Like Trujillo used to say,"El bien se impone."
Sos?a Virtual Museum
This website has all sorts of pictures of the Jewish refugees and the community they built in Sosua. These Jews who fled Nazi persecution at the behest of Trujillo and settled in Sosua created a physical and social paradise. I wish I could have know those times, those Jewish settlers and the beauty that Sosua was and not the filthy prostitute ridden enclave it has become. I read that Trujillo upon visiting the Jewish settlers after some years stated that if all within the DR were as productive as they Jews he would have no need to govern the DR.
This website has all sorts of pictures of the Jewish refugees and the community they built in Sosua. These Jews who fled Nazi persecution at the behest of Trujillo and settled in Sosua created a physical and social paradise. I wish I could have know those times, those Jewish settlers and the beauty that Sosua was and not the filthy prostitute ridden enclave it has become. I read that Trujillo upon visiting the Jewish settlers after some years stated that if all within the DR were as productive as they Jews he would have no need to govern the DR.
Casino Hotel Embajador 1956
This is the casino that Mr. AE worked in when he got into the casino business. Great pic - the dress on that woman looks exactly like the ones Rita Moreno wore in West Side Story!
Back then, in some rural areas dominicans were predominantly white.. I mean REALLY white, not mixed. Moca was one of those villages.. As time passed, mocanos started mixing with people from other towns throughout the country, mostly with dark capitale?os.. The same story repeated in many other towns from the Cibao region of the Dominican Republic, however, there are still some places in Cibao where people are much more light skinned than average dominicans..
You ar? somright about that dress. Imagine how modern that hotel must have been with flour to ceiling glass and air conditioning. Btw, my mom and aunt had those exact same shoes.
