If Filipinos take the trouble to see and notice their surroundings in San Francisco, they will find traces of Ph history here and perhaps revisit the Dewey Monument in Union Square and, of course, the Palace Hotel where Rizal stayed in May 1888. ...
Street signs in this part of the world also reminded me that Manila and San Francisco are chartered sister cities, that both share a Spanish colonial past. After all, San Francisco, named after St. Francis of Assisi, is one of many cities in California whose names refer to Catholic saints like Santa Barbara, San Diego, and San Jose. Santa Fe is not a saint, it refers to “Holy Faith,“ the first of the three theological virtues: Fe , Esperanza , and Caridad once popular Filipino names for girls.
San Francisco has streets named after characters in our shared histories. They have Magellan Avenue, a counterpart to Magallanes Avenue in Magallanes Village, Makati. They have Dewey Boulevard just as we did in Manila until it was renamed Heiwa during the Japanese Occupation and Roxas Boulevard in postwar times. George Dewey was the hero of the Battle of Manila Bay.
If Manila had Plaza Lawton, renamed Liwasang Bonifacio, San Francisco has Lawton Street named in honor of Gen. Henry Ware Lawton , a veteran of the US Civil and Indian Wars and was the highest-ranking US military casualty of the Philippine-American War. Lawton was involved in the capture of the Apache chief Geronimo in 1866 but died in San Mateo in 1899 from a sniper under the command of Filipino Gen. Licerio Geronimo.
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