Olongapo City

                     Rizal Triangle

                 

Monuments of Dr. Jose Rizal, the Philippines' national hero, are found all over the country as well as in a few cities in the world. In Olongapo city, the land where Rizal's monument stands has a triangular shape thereby bearing the name Rizal Triangle Park instead of the usual Rizal Park. Residents simply refer to it as Triangle, for short.

 

                                                                   LEO's Park

Students of the nearby city college frequent Leo's park to review lessons, take snacks, or chat with friends. The body of a U. S. Navy plane, which was originally displayed at Subic Naval Base, found a new home at Leo's Park located at Old Hospital Road. 

Corner Fendler Street, and 5th Street

Arlene's Inn, David Salon
Former location - Mariposa Bar

Of Barrios and Barangays

Pre-Spanish time Olongapo warrior. From Ulo ng Apo rotunda

From a small fishing village, Olongapo has grown into a bustling city with seventeen barangays. This series of posts present interesting historical facts and trivia about Olongapo and its barangays. Part 1 traces Olongapo's early history. 

From Balangay to Barrio and Back

Prior to the arrival of the Spaniards in the Philippines, the basic political unit in the islands was called "balangay" or "barangay" after the Malay word for a water craft, about eighty feet in length, used to carry around fifty passengers who were moving out from their village to form a new settlement elsewhere. A barangay might be an independent village or a part of a confederation of different barangays formed for mutual defense or for other strategic purpose.

During the Spanish times, the basic divisions of towns (pueblos) and cities (cuidad) was changed to Spanish word "barrio." However, in some towns, "barangay" remained in use but changed the meaning to a sub-barrio or a hamlet. Even when the country became under the United States and gained its independence, the word "barrio" continued as the official name of the municipal units.

Finally in 1974,  President Ferdinand Marcos put an end to the usage of "barrio" by virtue of Presidential Decree No. 557 declaring all "barrios" in the Philippines as "barangays."

Manuel Quezon in history

            i was together my friend went in the Quezon Ave. i was first time to enter inside in the Quezon City and i read about President Manuel Quezon control for Filipino training to learning  about English Sign Language and people improve work own culture and they forget word in Tagalog, American very strict and disciplined them learn in the English same Philippine School for the Deaf memories in the English than Tagalog. because Pres. Mr. Quezon more teach Filipino improve many learn about volunteer, President, and Etc... 

Manuel Quezon wife Aurora Aragon Quezon.. In 1918 Aragon married Manuel L. Quezon, who was her first cousin on her mother's side (Zeneida Molina and Quezon's mother Ma. Dolores Molina were sisters). At that time Manuel L. Quezon was serving as the first president of the Philippine Senate, and to avoid what he described in a privilege speech as “public demonstrations, and the pomp of a marriage,” the couple got married in Hong Kong. They later had four children: Maria Aurora (“Baby”), born in 1919 and died in 1949; Maria Zeneida (“Nini”), born in 1921; Luisa Corazon Paz, who died at birth; and Manuel Jr., born in 1926 and died in 1998.

All throughout her husband's political career, Aurora Quezon did not meddle in politics; despite being the first First Lady to reside inMalacañang, she preferred to stay in a nipa house in Malacañang Park or their property in Arayat, Pampanga.

She chose instead to get involved in women's organizations such as the National Federation of Women's Clubs of the Philippines (NFWCP), of which she was the honorary chair. Through the organization, she became part of the campaign to give Filipino women the right of suffrage, which was achieved in 1937 under her husband's term.

In 1935 Quezón won the Philippine's first national presidential election under the banner of the Nacionalista Party. He obtained nearly 68% of the vote against his two main rivals, Emilio Aguinaldo and Gregorio Aglipay. Quezón was inaugurated in November 1935. He is recognized as the second President of the Philippines. However, in January 2008, House Representative Rodolfo Valencia of Oriental Mindoro filed a bill seeking instead to declare General Miguel Malvar as the second Philippine President, having directly succeeded Aguinaldo in 1901.

 Manuel Luis Quezón y Molina (August 19, 1878 – August 1, 1944) served as president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944. He was the first Filipino to head a government of the Philippines (as opposed to other historical states). Quezón is considered by most Filipinos to have been the second president of the Philippines, after Emilio Aguinaldo (1897–1901).

Quezón suffered from tuberculosis and spent his last years in a "cure cottage" in Saranac Lake, New York, where he died on August 1, 1944. He was initially buried in Arlington National Cemetery. His body was later carried by the USS Princeton and re-interred in Manilaat the Manila North Cemetery on July 17, 1946 before being moved to Quezon City within the monument at the Quezon Memorial Circleon August 19, 1979.