Oct 05 2008
Cebu City after World War II
Here are some photos that I found in Flickr more than a year ago of Cebu City right after World War II. I tried to search for the account of the one who uploaded these photos so that I can credit him but unfortunately I could no longer locate him. Seems also that he already deleted the photos or set them to private. Like most World War II photos of Cebu, I suspect that these photos came from the archives of a particular university in the USA.
Below: An aerial view of the port area with the gutted warehouses, the Aduana, and Plaza Independencia.
Below: Piers one to three.
Below: Aerial view of downtown, completely devastated except for a handful of buildings. I tried to put some labels for reference.
Below: The gutted Cebu Provincial Capitol. Note that the present day Osmeña Boulevard was still an unpaved road.
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October 11th, 2008 at 4:25 am
What a wonderful photos you’ve got. Indeed, you must give credit to the one who uploaded it but as what you said, you could not locate that person.
Anyhow, this is a priceless photos of Cebu.
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November 8th, 2008 at 7:09 am
Nice pics. I could easily visualize what my paternal grandparents experienced during the war,
September 25th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
ay, grabe ka nindot sa mga photos, mag sige ‘g andar akong imagination…. kung buhi pa ko aning mga panahona, mamalit jud kog yuta aning mga lugara…!!!! wahhahaha…