Buildings and Places

Gamboa 1975...by this time over 40% of the Silver Town residential quarters have been demolished. The School, Gym and Clubhouse…

The Gamboa Bridge spans the point of entry where the Chagres Rivers feeds into the Panama Canal. This beautiful photo…

This photo of the bridge provides an aerial view that contextualizes the historic importance the bridge holds as a railroad…

This maintenance department of the Panama Canal Company was responsible for keeping the canal free of debris produced by the…

This United States Federal Post Office Building symbolized and actualized the virtual racial segregation practiced on the mainland USA in…

We are hard pressed to remember why or who labeled the geographic groupings of ‘Gyambo’ residential buildings such as ‘Sugar…

This photo (circa 1950-1965) captures an unobstructed view of building #319. It is a local rate ‘stilted post’ design residential…

If this ‘Grandstand’ could talk! ‘Raa…ti…dixxx’!!! It would tell a lot of tings…as dem say…story would come to question!???!!! But…we…

As in most "Silver rate" towns, the "clubhouse" was the community center. This building was a real multipurpose structure. It…

The second photo depicts a wide angle view of the school. Remember the early days circa 1940-1960? There were no…

So many memories of our early schooling, and our teachers,( Ms. Henry, Ms. Moore, Ms. Phillips, Mr. Barton, Mr. Knowles…

This is the latest construction of Gyamboa’s St. Simon's Church. The first was in the same location; built circa late…