Photo of the Week

Here is a great old photo of Balboa Flats with the old wooden quarters. No date on the photo. Morgan Avenue in the foreground. A few of these old wooden houses remained along Morgan Avenue when the others were replaced with modern cement houses in the '50s. What a great looking town!! Check out the laundry on the clothes line. Standard issue in the Canal Zone was a great set of clothes lines in the back yard.

After publication note (this is interesting):

Nice photo of Balboa flats. What I noticed was the chimneys from the wood/coal burning stoves in the quarters. I remember hearing some of the old timers talk about them. In fact, I had an old timer working for me until 1980 who used to chop wood for sale as a kid. He also used to walk the flats with a huge bag of coal and sold it for 5 cents a pound. Joe DuVall

Another photo from the Golden Days of the Canal Zone. Long live the memories..