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Zo617. The solar lights of the Eternal Flame are fully operational. Photo, curtesy of CFI, it is a March 2020 image, I believe.

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Zo618. The solar lights of the Eternal Flame are fully operational. Photo, curtesy of CFI, it is a March 2020 image, I believe.

Ze074. This is Miss Jane; she helps out sometime at the new MacArthur’s Lounge. She is an employee of CFI and looks after the former MacArthur Café rooms which are now in the hands of CFI. Ms. Jing, the boss of the MacArthur’s Lounnge did not have any help as of Jan. 2019. But on my Feb. 2019 visit she did have a helper, a young girl, from Bataan but who grew up in Subic Bay.

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Ze073. This is how the former Mac Arthur Café, now the new MacArthur’s Lounge, looks like now; this is a Jan. 2019 image.

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Ze072. The front cover of the new food and refreshment establishment menu on Corregidor Island; it has their phone number: 0905 467 2699.

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Ze071. The new food and refreshment establishment on Corregidor Island, and located in the same premises as the former MacArthur Café has a name: MacArthur’s Lounge.

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Ze077. That is Ms. Jing, the Lady Boss, of the new MacArthur’s Lounge. Like all Filipinos on Corregidor, she is very friendly and very good in English, so communication is not a problem.

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Ze076. This is the menu of the new MacArthur’s Lounge, at this Jan. 2019 visit, the management did not have every last item on the menu yet, but that situation will improve. The Lady Boss let me run a tap again like in the past under the old management. One thing I noticed and will consider in my future purchases. Her prices are a higher than in the old establishment and also higher that the competition at the other restaurant.

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Ze075. The bare beginnings of a new business by an enterprising Filipino Lady, I am sure she will expand her facilities. This building has been recently renovated by CFI. Here are some of the drinks and she runs show from here.

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Zc875. Many sons and daughters of the Greatest Generation gathered on Corregidor on the 11th Nov 2013, a place that wrote history itself.