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64 pp., a small pamphlet in original stiff printed light green photo cover, with many b/w photo illustrations, advertisements and a large rear fold-out map of “Luzon Island and Lines of the Manila Railroad Company” and a smaller folded map of Manila, covering an area from San Nicolas to Sampaloc and South to Malate.
EXTREMELY RARE Collector’s item.. One of the first antique tourist guides of the Philippines. Issued with the ‘compliments of the Manila Hotel, Manila’. Compiled by California Directory Association and published for the Manila Hotel. Collector’s item. “Where to Go, What to See, Where to Shop in Manila, Philippine Islands.” With advertisements from companies which still exist today: AG & P, The Sanitary Steam Laundry, Phil Trust, American Chamber, San Miguel Brewery, Nestle, Manila Wine Merchants, Ymchausti & Co., etc.
One of the more colorful characters to emerge from the long history of this hotel was Walter E. Antrim who showed up in Manila in the early 1920s and snagged a job as a dishwasher. By 1926, he had been elevated to Manager of the hotel. “Monk” Antrim knew how to live life in his own way: high, wide, and handsome, making many friends as he went along. He vanished several years later but left his legacy, the “Monk Antrim Lintik Cocktail”. The Lintik drew its name from the Tagalog word for Lightning. It had to be aged for two weeks then chilled in an ice bucket without coming into contact with ice. Abtrim married and keft Manila suddenly. One can only imagine due to some mysterious reason. He ended up in Mexico and passed into oblivion. [Manila Hotel: The Golden Years by Manila Nostalgia]
