I found this great old photo while continuing to sort and catalog the
many old photos I have. There used to be an old road that ran behind the
town of Corozal back in the day. There was still remnants of this
old road in existence when we use to run around looking for old
stuff. We found the old road starting off of Fort Clayton then
through Cardenas (which was removed when they built Cardenas then along
the ridge line above the road going into Cardenas through the jungle up
behind the Corozal Vet Clinic and ending up connecting to the road
behind the large cement barracks in Corozal. I imagine this was
the same road that went though Diablo Terrace and around the hill into
Albrook. In the days before Albrook was filled in, the road
followed the edge and around the swamp. The road eventually went
into Panama City. Well the photo of the week this week is part of
this old road. As you can see the caption under the photo says,
" Old Corozal Road, back of Corozal - Feb. 1917. This 8 x 10
photo is in a photo album and the page it is mounted to has hand
writing, "The only place we could go car riding." I
don't know who the people are in the car, but there is a man in a white
shirt, tie and jacket and has a cigarette in his left hand. There
is an attractive lady sitting in the back seat in white and wearing a
hat. It appears they stopped here by this little creek bridge to
have their photo taken. The license plate has M over P 3. Coming up
behind them on the road are two horse pulled wagons approaching.
Below is a zoom in on the car.
What a great old photo!
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