Sunday, September 27, 2009

Wrestling High School Gay




Plaza built following the demolition the convent of San Jacinto in 1866, known as El Venezolano by a statue of Antonio Leocadio Guzman had at its center. On the south side was the beach of San Jacinto market. With the demolition of the market in 1953, the deadline is extended to acquire the current dimensions.

This sundial built in 1802 by Alexander von Humboldt's idea. Moved to corner the market of San Jacinto in 1866, was again placed in the middle of the plaza in the 1950's.
More Caracas

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Shaking The Stomach Flu

old Caracas Photos

me, my Dad, looking in a corner of the library found a book called "Just Yesterday, "published by The Neumann Foundation, which has photos of the famous photographer Luis F. Toro.
As I know this blog, I lent it to get interesting images that have to do with Caracas, we will gradually placed in these spaces.

The first picture I can not tell that the pictures that adorned the lobby of the Hotel Majestic was painted by my grandfather, the painter Vicente GarcĂ­a Mendible. Unfortunately when the hotel was demolished lost these works, they do not know if anyone reading this knows the whereabouts of any of them, please send us an email: caracasposible@gmail.com .


Hotel Majestic, a parade of British sailors

General Juan Vicente Gomez, Paradise Racetrack


Parque Los Caobos, 1928