Managua, Calle de los Mercados, c1909? Postcard

Submitted by mjt on 2 May, 2008 - 14:50.
Managua, Calle de los Mercados, c1909? Postcard
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Thanks so much Mike

Submitted by dirtbag on 3 May, 2008 - 20:29.

These images you post really compliment this N.L. Site. Not only if., some of these buildings are still standing, the history of what it must have been like then. What a true disaster the Managua Earthquake was and how it eroded so much of the countries prosperity at that time in Nicaraguas history. Many of your pictures/postcards from before that event show a sometimes romantic relief of days gone by. wouldn't it be great to go back in time, even just for a short visit. Dr Who's telephone box. You do have a remarkable collection and I thank you for sharing it along with your literary sumissions, I was wondering why do you happen to live in Honduras and not Nicaragua? Not contradictory by any means.Just being nosy.

Collection

Submitted by mjt on 3 May, 2008 - 21:22.

Actually, many of the posts are my things but many are also from the collection of friends (who broadly collect things Central American). I was sent this one, browsed it in a slide show, and posted it, without ever noticing what Dixietraveler pointed out right away. The Honduras locale has been determined by prior obligations (some elderly friends in need of assistance way back when), followed by a marriage and all family things entailed by entrance into any Latin family. Honduras is not as bad as the press usually makes it sound, but it is also not necessarily my first choice in Central America, as evidenced by membership here.

Who wants to guess

Submitted by dixietraveller on 3 May, 2008 - 07:17.

Who wants to guess what's taking place in the center of the picture? An arrest?? Charges??

O quantum est in rebus inane! / A palabras necias, oídos sordos.

I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building. - Peanuts (Charles M. Schulz)

Drinking in public charges?

Submitted by nicareal on 3 May, 2008 - 09:16.

The civilian is holding a bottle in his left hand. The man in uniform probably wants his share of it.

Some things just never change....

I think you're right

Submitted by dixietraveller on 3 May, 2008 - 16:22.

I think you're right; I didn't see the bottle before! I wonder if any of the buildings in this series of pictures survived the two major earthquakes and urban "progress."