[Photos] 15 shots of sleek, clean and stylish 1960s Manila

Today, Manila is a sprawling metropolis largely dominated by anonymous high-rise condominium blocks, shopping malls and traffic-clogged highways. But back in the 1960s, more evident was a clean, sleek and modernising city displaying an abundance of character.

bullida department store next to a movie theatre showing 1968 ultra-violent Western war romp The Mercenaries.
It was a decade that saw the the city’s first pedestrian underpass constructed in 1960, its first science high school established in 1963, its first city-run university inaugurated in 1965, as well as its first city-run hospital opened in 1969.
Spanish-style volante horse-drawn carriages mingle in the streets with crimson Pontiacs – General Motors’ generation-defining car of 1960s America.

This article was written by ALASTAIR MCCREADY

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