Escolta

Along the Escolta are the principal wholesale and retail houses of the city.

Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines or, Following the Flag against the Moros 1895

They stood on the Escolta, which is the main business thoroughfare of

Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines or, Following the Flag against the Moros 1895

At this point along the Escolta are the busiest marts of local trade.

Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines or, Following the Flag against the Moros 1895

The library moved several times—in places like the Escolta and Santa Mesa—but members and bibliophiles by the thousands followed it and used its facilities wherever it traveled.

Archive 2007-03-01 vonjobi 2007

The library moved several times—in places like the Escolta and Santa Mesa—but members and bibliophiles by the thousands followed it and used its facilities wherever it traveled.

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Or one may see more of the native, especially the Spanish, life of the town by stopping at the Hotel de Spain, in the heart of the town, just off the Escolta.

Wanderings in the Orient

The main shopping street, the Escolta, is fairly lined with Chinese stores of all sorts, some of them quite extensive; and some of the narrower side streets, in the same neighborhood, have practically no other stores than those kept by the Chinese.

Wanderings in the Orient

_Escolta_ (Binondo), in a building (burnt down in October, 1885) on the site where stood the General Post Office up to June, 1904.

The Philippine Islands John Foreman

A short distance from the Escolta, or chief business street, is one of the many markets of Manila.

Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

Without the walls nearly all the trade is carried on, the Escolta and Rosario, on that side of the river, being the principal streets, built however without any regard to regularity, so that they are not handsome, but in them nearly all the best Chinamen's shops are situated.

Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850 Robert MacMicking