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3.18.2025

Art Watch: "The Davao We Love: An Exhibit of Davao's Historical Streets & Structures" photo exhibit at La Herencia

Davao City Hall & Rizal Park. Circa 1970s

Curious as to how Davao looked like in the past? "The Davao We Love: An exhibit of Davao's Historical Streets & Structures" photo exhibit will take you to a trip (nostalgic, to many) to old Davao. "The Davao We Love" is a photo-narrative exhibit that features the transformation of Davao from a town to the city it has become today.



"Photographs bring people, events, and places back to lite. Here the intimate and specific memories intermingle with collective history as a generalized record of the past.

The exhibit presents the historical structures, streets, schools, seaports, institutions, maps, and ancestral houses from the last century to the present."

"The Davao We Love" photo exhibit is a collaboration between the Davao of the Past - The Memory Project, the Institute of Davao Studies of the Holy Cross of Davao College, and the La Herencia Davao Art & Events Pavilion to celebrate the 88th year of Davao City inauguration. 

"The photographs that appear in the exhibit havew been previously published in the digital archives on the internet, from the photographers themselves, the social networking sites, from family albums of kind contributors and individuals, ad from generous families who share their knowledge of Davao's past. The photographs have been reshared through the Facebook page of Davao of the Past - The Memory Project."

Ateneo de Davao High School Campus. 1960s.

San Pedro Cathedral. Circa late 1970s.

San Pedro Church with convento. Circa 1888


Sa Pedro Street. Circa 1980s.

San Pedro Street. Parade of Cadet Corps. July 4, 1931.

Traffic in Matina. 1964.

Protest by drivers, operators &automobile owners against the Cotabato automotive concern. Circa 1928. 

Jones Circle. Circa late 1940s to early 1950s

The Oboza Heritage House. 1949.

The Pedro Lat Ancestral House. The stone house remains on Pelayo Street (formerly known as Legaspi Street)

Gaisano Ilustre. Circa 1970s-1980s

Leon garcia Street corner Magsaysay Avenue fornting Magsaysay Park. Circa 1970s.