This week's photo is a very interesting one. I recently purchased
this real photo post card thinking that it was a very early view of
Balboa, which the writing on the photo states. However, while studying
it this morning, I got confused as it is not Balboa. After
scanning it at high resolution and looking at it closer, I have
determined that this is the town of Pedro Miguel. The ball field
is in the same location that we all remember it being. The white concrete
building in the center is the dispensary and you can see the school bell
tower to the right of the dispensary. I am not sure what the long
buildings are next to the ball field, but they look like garages or
storage buildings. This is a really great old photo of Pedro
Miguel taken at an angle that I have never seen before. It appears
that the photo was taken from a moving train as you can see the blur
effect in the immediate foreground.
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