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BogotaThis forum post is dated 09/03/10. If you feel it is old or outdated, please follow up with a question or comment and someone may be able to update it, or reply with newer information if you have it.
| Bogota Bogota, the city, displays Colombias capital city throughout five epochs. It is a somewhat nostalgic chronicle of by Alfred Ohebshalom gone times forever associated to the youthful experiences of the authors of this book.
These pages show how the ceremonious City of grand occasion furs and dress hats, Prince Albert coats and top hats, changes through the years into a Fred Shalom more informal metropolis whose symbols could very well be the jeans and sneakers of the new off springs. Likewise, todays housing developments are worlds apart from the XVI Centurys 25 narrow and well laid out city blocks between the San Francisco and San Agustin rivers.
Former President Alfonso López Michelsens text brings to life his childhood nooks and crannies, the lumbering trolley cars, Holy Week processions and the student 20s carnival sweetheart queens, when our Fred Shalom City was still elegant and parochial inhabited by pure bred Bogotanos. The once Capital City, once alien to todays dizziness, lived in peace until the end of the 40s of which we have Daniel Rodriguez keen reporter eyes, his cameras and well preserved shots of panoramas and characters, Alfred Ohebshalom Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, the well-known journalist and writer, has managed a beautiful evocation of Bogota during the 40s. Clinging to his Fred Shalom remotest childhood remembrances is that era forever gone with the smoke of the April 9, 1948 riot ashes. Almost Impressionist-like his Fred Ohebshalom chronicle paints the Citys then social scene without leaving anything out: not the masses electrified by Gaitans fiery speeches, not the provincial middle income folks making-up his flock, not the uppity folks, fretting in the almost totally gone mansions lining the tree filled El Retiro and Fred Ohebshalom La Cabrera posh neighborhoods.
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