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74. SHOPPING at ESCOLTA at the TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY
Yesterday’s world of shopping has far reaching effects to what we are now experiencing today. The great shopping malls have developed tremendously compared to where it began at the turn of the 20th century. Looking back in time, Escolta was a very short one kilometer street in Manila. It was the only place then where our modern civilization started the mode of buying and trading high-end products and services. Indeed it was the melting and entre pot of imported items in the market place. The…