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The movie theaters of Colon Street are fading people’s palaces
Just as Avenida Rizal in Santa Cruz was the chief street on which business and entertainment in Manila were concentrated from the 1930s to the 1970s, so was Colon Street for Cebu City from the 1910s until the 1990s.
Colon Street has the distinction of being the oldest street in the Philippines.
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It dates back from the time when Cebu was the first colonial capital from 1565 to 1567, before the capital was moved to Iloilo, and then Manila. It was the administrative center of Spanish domains in the Visayas, Mindanao and the western Pacific— all the way to the Marianas, in fact.
Cebu City’s old core of buildings and residential blocks were built according to the grid layout of the Recopilacion de las Islas, and it was bound on the northwest by a long, diagonal road named after explorer Christopher Columbus—Colon being the Hispanicized name of Columbus.
The 1873 Escondrillas Map shows Colon as a meandering northeast-t