Wednesday, June 17, 2009

More Iloilo Colonial Pics





















pictures clockwise from top left: Oton Church was the largest and most beautiful church in Panay during the colonial regime before it was toppled by an earthquake few years after the war; the original clubhouse of Sta. Barbara Golf and Country Club that was established and built in 1907 and opened to public in 1913, Asia's oldest golf course; Muelle Loney pre-war picture; Jose Calugas of Leon, Iloilo, the first Filipino to be awarded the highest military honor in US, the US Congressional Medal of Honor; JM Basa 1928 known as the Calle Real during the colonial period touted as the "Escolta of Iloilo" due to its progressive district