Fotos Antiguas de Andalucía//Old Pictures of Andalusia

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Bus Service Málaga 1926


Street in Málaga


The emblematic Café Madrid in Malaga


Paseo Heredia año 1906 Málaga


The Ladies play diabolo while repairing their car.

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Some more pictures of Málaga City







Alameda Apodaca 1906


Mercedes Málaga

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Café La Loba. Malaga City







Hundimiento del Génova



Casa con patio de Malaga City

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Year 1908

La Farola is a lighthouse located in the Spanish city of Malaga, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Work of the engineer Joaquín María Pery y Guzmán, its construction was completed in 1817, being then located at the entrance of the Port of Málaga. La Farola de Málaga is a symbol of the city and gives its name to the promenade where it is located.



For a whole century there existed in the same urban space a wooden lantern that fulfilled the functions of a lighthouse and that was designed in 1717 by the French engineer Bartholomew Thurus.1

The earthquake of Andalusia of 1884, which affected the city of Malaga, left the luminous mechanisms of the lighthouse inoperative, being repaired in 1885 the technical damages suffered. In 1909, the lighthouse keeper's house was enlarged and the base was reformed adding one more floor that gives the current original facade, and in 1913 the mechanisms of the optics were reformed again. The engineer Mauro Serret was involved in the calculations and Julius Pintsch AG, formerly Bauklempnerei, founded by Carl Friedrich Julius Pintsch (1815-1884) of Germany, was involved in the machining, leaving the 31-flash characteristic, which is still preserved today. In May 1916, a mercury-plated float base manufactured in Madrid by the Sociedad Española de Construcciones Metálicas was installed.

During the Spanish Civil War, on August 28, 1936, the Malaga Lamppost was turned off by order of the Navy Command, still under the orders of the Republic, because its silhouette served as a reference to the naval artillery and aviation of the rebel army. The Central Committee of the Republican Fleet ordered it to be painted in earth color, with dark and light spots to camouflage it. Despite this, it suffered serious damage during the war, and had to be rebuilt in 1939.

At the end of the 20th century, due to the works of enlargement of the functional perimeter of the port, La Farola was placed in the middle of the port area. A parking lot will be built under La Farola, while the lighthouse is to be fitted out to house the future Museum of the Port of Malaga, which is scheduled to open in 2018.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Farola_de_M%C3%A1laga

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Sevilla 1960



A traffic warden piles up Christmas presents that must have been given to him on the spot by drivers and passers-by.

At that time some people were in the habit of giving Christmas presents to policemen, teachers, doctors and so on.

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Year 1887 Malaga

Ferrería Workers




La Constancia was a blast furnace factory located next to San Andres beach in the Spanish city of Malaga in the 19th century.

History
Promoted by Manuel Agustín Heredia, it was established in 1833 to refine with mineral coal the cast iron produced in the blast furnaces of Marbella. It was one of the most modern ironworks in the world at the time, with five blast furnaces, twenty-two puddles, eighteen boilers and twenty-two steam engines.

La Constancia operated with coal brought from England to the port of Malaga due to the lack of industrial ports in Asturias, which prevented the Asturian coal from being shipped to Malaga and made its use unfeasible. However, in order to protect Asturias' coal production, the State taxed the import of British coal at rates of up to 50%, which made it excessively expensive.

In 1884 the Marbella smelter closed and in 1891 La Constancia in Malaga did the same. The last firing of the Malaga blast furnaces took place during the years of the First World War due to the great demand generated by the war. But once the war was over, the blast furnaces were shut down for good.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Con...ferrer%C3%ADa)

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Malaga City Year 1930

Granada Street


Macabre publicity

On January 3, 1889, the people who were in the hairdresser's shop of Mr. Carbonell in Granada Street, ran in panic, some with half their faces lathered, others with their hairdressers on, even the owner himself and the sales clerks sought refuge in nearby establishments. The famous illusionist Robert E. Makallister, who that same night was making his debut with the Russian Company at the Teatro Principal, was left alone. The man had no other idea than to take a razor from those in the barber's shop and, simulating a suicide, slit his own throat, while the blood gushed out and the employees and parishioners fled in terror. Shortly afterwards he was seen walking calmly around as if nothing had happened.

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Malaga Year 1880


The streets of Malaga were in times past the daily scene of peddlers hawking their wares through the streets, turned into a constant comings and goings of men and women who eked out a living. We can get an idea by reading this curious chronicle published in the "Unión Mercantil" at the beginning of the 20th century, which recounts the "inventory" taken by a sick person from his bed. From half past seven in the morning thirty-two fishmongers, five greengrocers, six egg sellers, two money changers, a lace and fringe seller for quilts, one selling balls and skeins, four key sellers with snails, eight orange sellers, one selling roses and violets, another selling oranges and eggs, two sharpeners, two sellers of asperon, two of sawdust, two of coconuts, three of flowerpots, one of potting soil, two buyers of bottles and paper, four sellers of strings of garlic, one offering blood sausages, another oysters, one with almanacs, two with walnuts, a woman with acorns and nuts, a seller of candy dolls, and some more. They were joined by street performers, such as flute and guitar players. In short, hustle and bustle from daybreak.

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Cadiz 1912

End of San Severiano Tramway route

100 YEARS AGO

1912 The works of the tramway to San Severiano
The director of the tramway company, Manuel Gómez, was at the City Hall yesterday to talk to the mayor, Ramón Rivas, about the construction of the branch line to San Severiano. He said that there has been a slight delay in the arrival of the materials to reinforce the bridge, but he believes that the streetcars will be able to reach the pleasant neighborhood of San Severiano during March. The mayor reiterated the need to have this branch line, since many people from Cadiz live there.

Festivities of the Centenary. Last night, in the City Hall, there was a new meeting of the active forces to discuss Centennial issues. The speakers agreed on the need to place as soon as possible the first stone of the monument to the Cortes and Siege of Cadiz.

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Cadiz City Must be late 1800's

Callejón del Tinte one of the emblematic streets of the city.





Cadiz City 1920s



Cadiz City 1915



History of Corpus Christi in Cadiz

The Corpus Christi is one of the major festivities of the city since ancient times, because if the liturgical celebration is established for the entire universal Church in 1264 by Pope Urban IV (1261-1264) although it began to be commemorated in the Belgian city of Liege in 1246 established by Bishop Robert de Toronte, Spain was one of the nations that with more affection welcomed the Eucharistic celebration and for something is our country the fortunate possessor of the most beautiful samples of the world goldsmith's work as they are the diverse and monumental custodians in which the Sacrament is paraded through streets and Spanish squares in the morning or spring afternoon of the month of June.

The famous Spanish Corpus of Toledo, Granada, Seville and Cadiz, have large and majestic monstrances that have been made by the best silversmiths of the time. Worthy of admiration, for its beauty and slenderness, is this one that we have in Cadiz, artistic jewel of the XVII century completed in later centuries.