Barrio Barretto – Page 3 – Philippine-Sailor

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Barrio Barretto was the sleepy beach area of Olongapo City but now it has developed in important international tourist area.

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Zg380. (-148). Another old business ate the dust and something new is being built. For your orientation, right of this property used to be the two storey Mayflower Bar, and left in the picture you should be able to recognize our new high rise hotel.

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Zg322. (-00a0. The pictures in this album were shot from the location, on top of that building, indicated on this Google Earth image. It is provided for your orientation.

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Zg321. (-00). A high-rise in Barrio Barretto, where did all the nipa huts go? Do today’s visitors have more money than we sailors did during our time here? This big new hotel is called Central Park Reef Resort. In that location the Marmont Hotel had built a 3 storey new hotel but never got permission […]

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Zg326. (-12). Well, we are sitting on the 3rd floor of this building and it is a bar, I forgot the name but it is right at the NW intersection corner of the National Highway and Del Pilar Street. The sun has set and we can see the “Cheap Charlie Bar” and the lights of […]

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Zg325. (-05). This is view of the National Highway running thru Barretto; we are looking in a SE direction, toward the former Naval Base. It has been widened in the last 3 years, the speed of the traffic has picked up. One got to be real careful crossing this highway now.

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Zg324. (-04). I’m looking inland, down the Del Pilar Street, which is the street that took you to the Marmont Hotel. The Marmont Hotel is now called the Belle Monte Hotel but manage only that. Part of the Marmont land has become a new hotel, called Dennito; you can see its sign at the upper […]

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Zg323. (-02). Across the National Highway, which runs north thru Zambales, is the By the Sea Hotel. The building at right is a new construction and the front entrance has been redone. I paid recently for Christmas visitors 4,000 pesos for a room.

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Zg301. One of the Barrio Barretto Bypass Road Project public notice sign.

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Zg311. Last look at the construction site of the Barrio Barretto Bypass Road Project. More details are in the album links above.

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Zg310. I’m on my return march; we are looking across the Sitio Alibang Valley. Those two peaks ahead should be familiar to the walkers in our community. Behind the right peak is the community Sitio Tralala, on top of that ridge and which is part of Gorgon Heights.