In this section we are posting photos usually from the early days to the year 2000 when the formal U.S. presence was ended.
Military & PCC (Panama Canal Commission) Housing
Canal
Zone’s pine clapboard housing originally gray with white trim • high
ceilings for air movement • under Zone's quasi-socialist system, while
private businesses & land ownership prohibited, housing was free •
apartment size depended on salary & marital status of employee •
also free: government-furnished power, water, coal for cooking, ice for
iceboxes, lawn care, grounds keeping, garbage disposal & for
bachelors only, maid service • if modified, residents required to
restore apartment to original blueprint dimensions before vacating.
There were 4 basic tropical houses in the Canal Zone area.
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Digital Library Of The Caribbean
Panama Canal Zone Telephone Directory Book Collection
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Digital Library Of The Caribbean
US Armed Forces Telephone Directory Book Collection
This 1988 volume found on Archive.org
Balboa High School Zonian Yearbook Collection
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Yearbooks and Periodicals Archives
In this amazing archives you will find things like, Zonian School Yearbooks, Tropic Times Newspaper, Spillway Newspaper, The Panama Canal Review, and a lots more.
