join me as i rediscover the beauty of manila through one photo a day
Please note that i am not a professional photographer. To those who are curious the camera i'm using is Canon Powershot A520.
UPDATE: a very kind soul gave me an ultra nice and spanking new Canon PowerShot SD1100 IS, last October 2008 which i have been using non-stop since then... Thanks again to the one and only Reyna Elena
UPDATE2: last 2009 i finally got myself a DSLR - Canon Rebel Xsi (Canon 450D) to be exact, and have been alternately using it with the PS from REynz
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8 comments:
Wow, I am glad that you started this. My stepmother is from Manila.
Very nice photo.
I knew the building but never noticed it was a theater.
surprenant comme theatre. Le parapluie c'est à cause de la pluie où de la chaleur ?
Surprising as theater. The umbrella is due to rain or heat?
@blazek - glad you liked it, thank you
@oldman - thanks for always dropping by and leaving some comments , really appreciate it
@sidney - i'm not sure really if they still run movies here, but i believe this theater was very popular during the 80s
@olivier - she was carrying an umbrella due to heat
Luneta theater no longer run movies. The bldg. on the other end of the old theater was Luneta Hotel. It was once a fabiolous bldg as well. Very old but nice hotel. Unfortunately sinara na sya. I remember Chuck Norris filmed there and accross the street. They used the National Library and made it to be the US Embassy in Saigon. It was for the film Missing in Action
i miss my manila...yes luneta was a first class moviehouse in the 1970s and 1980s...clean and classy...I wonder why it became non-operational...
I love that theater. Brings back good memories. My parents always took us there when the mall theaters are too crowded. We used to go there in the 80's. Very clean and classy. I also remember eating at that little Chinese restaurant(can't remember the name) right next to it after watching a movie. They serve authentic chinese dishes and not the usual Chinese fast food fare.
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