14 June 2011

Puerto Rico Photo Addendum 2

Old San Juan, a section of the capital, San Juan, dates from the 1500s. If you search online for images of Old San Juan, you’ll see colorful building facades. Here’s a photograph of how it looked in 1970. 
 
What hasn’t changed are the narrow streets with cobblestone once used as ballast on Spanish ships arriving to be loaded with sugarcane.

Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1970.

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