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Santiago Through The Ages. A Foto Tour
For those that don't believe me when I said the river banks were void of huts not so long ago, this was 1979:
When shops closed in downtown Santiago, the streets got swept clean and left ready for the next morning!
One of the houses with the most history in Santiago, located in los Pepines main artery Ave Vicente Estrella.
One of the first Santiaguera traditions to die was the Patron Santiago desfile and the Corpus Christi Cruzadas. They were something to be seen in Santiago...
Other lost traditions of Santiago are Las guerras de almidon and the inocentes...
Other lost traditions of Santiago are Las guerras de almidon and the inocentes...
The Old residence of the Viuda de Pichardo. Now is known as the Centro de Recreo of Santiago.
When the Pichardo lived there, the home was only a single floor, the floor plan of the original home was actually larger than what was left in the renovation. A smaller semi attached home was demolished and the property sold.
I'll post family pictures of how the house looked inside prior to the renovation later, as I need permission from the other side of the family that might not like that idea. Most of the pictures capture plenty of the home and unless you're very familiar with the lavish parties they made in Santiago at the time, you'll think it was a hotel or wedding hall...
When the Pichardo lived there, the home was only a single floor, the floor plan of the original home was actually larger than what was left in the renovation. A smaller semi attached home was demolished and the property sold.
I'll post family pictures of how the house looked inside prior to the renovation later, as I need permission from the other side of the family that might not like that idea. Most of the pictures capture plenty of the home and unless you're very familiar with the lavish parties they made in Santiago at the time, you'll think it was a hotel or wedding hall...
Dances in the Centro de Recreo de Santiago during Carnaval:
They do have masks so no problem with permissions!
They do have masks so no problem with permissions!
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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.