Richard Tuason-Sanchez's Site

true, notice the dome, nag iba ang shape

i was just wondering, ano po gamit ninyo sa mga kuha? salamat

hi derek, i used a canon instamatic camera and scanned them one by one, these pictures were taken year 2000, except for those with dcp names, i used a kodak digital camera circa year 2001.

uy, there goes my surname...Camus...wala lang. thanks for posting=)

saan ka sa malabon? just walk around concepcion area, there you have a big concentration of old houses.

Hi Richard :-)
You are welcome. These houses only showed how rich our Malabon town was. It's like going back to memory lane. The younger generation have to see these so they can further appreciate and preserve the Malabon culture.I also saw in your album the Paez-Cruz Mausoleum in Bayan. You see, my late mom was related to that side. Your site also links Malabon people and relatives as well. :-)

hi carlo,

im happy that your relative, pacita dionisio bautista allowed us to enter the house during our last heritage tour of malabon. hoping that you can join us in our endeavor to promote malabon's heritage and that the locals can do something as well to save our hometown.

richard

you can check my links for the tour that we did last october 13

hi Lee,

That is my plan, to do a book about Malabon and Navotas. Medio mahirap kumuha ng ibang information sa ibang bahay. a number of these materials were ruined by the floods and others i cannot find there sources. and im glad im met your mom in our october tour of malabon.doon sa house niyo mismo.ive longed to see that house.

your house is among the most beautiful,and preserved house in town.

richard

thanks for the comment,and for visiting this site. my group is promoting the town's heritage,we are putting another face of the place,other than the flooding capital of the philippines.theres more in malabon than floods.

your townmates surely will be happy to see these pics. do you have plans of making a coffee table book about these ancestral homes? i haven't been to malabon but maybe we'll visit the place sometime since you caught my interest with these pics. Last summer we went to Vigan and Pagudpod.

before heading to malabon, check this two links, you can find them in my links page. this was a tour my group organized.

Tutubi Flight Chronicles in Paradise Philippines and Exotic Asia: A Tour of Malabon's Heritage and Food Treasures
Ivan About Town - 2007-10-13 Malabon City

yup, i intend to make a book about tambobong (malabon and navotas) one of these days. sayang naman kasi, we were unoticed of what we have here, and we are loosing all this things, so i decided to document them before its gone and forgotten by people.

wow i think i've seen some of the houses in this album during our fieldwork. it's nice to see someone as passionate as you to revive the glory of his hometown. if you're interested i'll be most willing to share the results of our study in Malabon. more power to your plans :D

we came from malabon. we lived sa hulong duhat, sa house po ni Ildefonso Santos. I studied at SJA too, but i was in grade 5 noong lumipat kami dito sa batangas. and i think st. ritz is our father's cousin, our tita. I'm a Santos.

Wow, i'm now discovering Malbon's great history. May magandang history pala siya, ngayon-ngayon ko lang nalalaman. :D

thanks for reacting, im glad that this material touched the hearts of many. specially those who used to stay in malabon. i have a group who does tours of malabon every time we feel like it. we try to ask the home owners to open the doors for us. also we just wanted malabon to regain its 19th century prestige as you can see in my other posts in the blog section.

what is your family name?

richard

My last name is Isip.

I'd like to go to one of the tours if I'm not too busy with school. I'll also tell my brothers if they are interested.=)

hi there, thanks for visiting my malabon site. sorry for not having the Ildefonso Santos house here, ang hirap kasing kunan ng picture. but id love to complete all the houses that i scouted around malabon.

hoping your family will preserve your ancestral house. most specially IP Santos is now national artist.who is the santos in your family, your mom or dad?i always visit lucino santos if i have time, when he was still staying in the old house. ang sarap niyang kausap.

also the setting of your house is so nice, ang gandang i-landscape. IP must do something there.buti pa nga kayo, you still have your ancestral house, ours was torn down in the (malabon house) 1960's and (navotas house)1990's. its so disheartening for me to have lost vestiges of my history.

I hope that we can keep in touch about this and hoping i can meet you if im in manila. you can reach me at richardtsb@gmail.com, i have a group that is making a move to make malabon known again. this time for its heritage, we have so much that people arent aware of. we are conducting tours if we feel like it.

aomeone in your family also contacted my saite and i so happy despite his young age, he has pride about malabon and wanted to save what is left there.

let's keep in touch.

richard

kamag-anak po ba kayo ni judge basilio bautista?

Salamat po!Lahat ng mga bahay na naka post,iyan po ang madalas kong tignan nuong bata pa ako..Maganda talaga ang Malabon..Alejandro-Pascual-Maclan ang Family ng mga lolo at lola ko..taga C.Arellano ang bahay ng lolo ko napapagitnaan po ng (old) Rufina at Pancit Malabon ni Aling Rosy...Ang alam ko,sabi ng lola ko nuon daw halos magkakamag anak ang mga nakatira sa Malabon...naging student din ako ng NTC nuong 70's-74's yata and then Manila na ko...ang nakatira nalang yata ngayon sa bahay ni lola yung pinsan kong si Kennet..at sa Badayo si Dogie(panganay ni tito Ading)....last time na umuwi ako,wala na yung bahay ni lola :(....ginawa ng garahe ng pinsan ko..Sayang wala man lang yatang kumuha ng picture nun...(hikbi)mm?naaalala ko nuong bata pa ako nakita ko si aling Rufina,may kasama syang apo na lalaki...bingyan nya ng trabaho yung kapitbahay namin...taga linis ng mga bote ng patis...Basta Dyan galing ang lahi ng nanay ko...!Greeting's!!!!

Richard, congratulations for documenting the rich heritage of Malabon through its beautiful houses. I was wondering where exactly in Navotas the Gabriel house is located? What is/are the first name/s of the owners of the Gabriel house? Thanks and I look forward to hearing from you. Maria

Richard, thanks for your prompt reply. Do let me know when you find out the names of the original owners. More power to you in your endeavour to preserve the heritage of Malabon-Navotas. Good luck and God bless.

i found out, it was the house of protacio gabriel, married to a certain andres of the roman santos-juliana andres clan of navotas. im not sure if he was the gov. gabriel from the town of malabon-navotas. i still call it town/municipality of malabon and navotas. i dont like to call it city. or plain malabon and navotas.

this endeavor will not be possible with out touching the hearts of concerned silent people llike you. thanks for the support.

richard

yup, giniba na sya recently lang.. nung april lang namin napagdesisyonan na gumawa na lang nang new house dun for the safety na din nang pamangkin ko.. medyo super old na din kasi ung house eh.. we took some pictures nga of the house before sya sirain.. if i have time ill post the pictures in my site.. you're aware pla of that printing press.. sayang nga eh, super memorable p nman ung place na un.. hehehe anyways, thanks for replying.. :)

replymagsimpan wrote today at 11:01 AM
Hi, I remember this house, the front (its ground floor) of the house used to be a pharmacy "Farmacia Pascual". My eldest brother has a friend who is a Pascual his name is "Ronnie" and whenever they have a basketball game he will passed by our house in Matahong Street and also in our place at C,Arellano St. corner Sigwa St. (beside Standard Cigarette Factory/former Mayor Florante Villegas' house?) and usually I'm the one whom he will see, then he will asked me if my brother is around. I will get my kuya (Sammy Goco) and then he will talked to Ronnie (by now he is about 65 years old). Nice feelings to see the Pascual's house, it brings back happy childhood memories.
By the way Richard , is the Magsimpan;s house (near Pascual's house and across the Iglesia ni Cristo church still standing? The ground floor of that house used to be "Farmacia Magsimpan". Thanks Richard I hope this comment will go through.

im happy that my site touched your spirits, which is the intention of my post, to promote what we have in malabon. yes the dionisio house is still standing and it is among my favourite houses in malabon. it is well kept by your, sister(?) pacita dionisio bautista. ang ganda ganda ng bahay na yon. with all the muebles.

i will be more than happy to see malabon revive its grand past, the old families gathering again, specially christmas reunions in their ancestral houses, or just in malabon.

i miss the old families hearing christmas mass in the old churches. now i feel like a stranger whenever i hear mass before christmas, i dont know anyone of them.

let us keep in touch and make malabon as grand as it was.

richard

yes, it is tonsuya bridge. there was an older bridge there, it was damaged during the second world war, thus replaced/reconstructed according to the image of the older one (with modifications too) built in the 19th century.

Greeting's uli,mmm?Sensya na mabagal me...Wala po akong kilala masyado sa FAMILY ng MACLAN at PASCUAL-ALEJANDRO-pero kilala ko yung isa sa kuya ng lolo ko-yung MARCELO MACLAN...puro mga kapatid lang ng nanay ko ang kilala ko at mga pinsan..karamihan sa amin wala na dyan..pero DONT WORI matunog ang MALABON dito tribo namin..hehehehe,sige lagi ako silip dito sa site mo para up to date balita ko..Salamat po! KABAYAN

if you're interested pala in old houses,try to take some photos in tonsuya and niugan,,there is still some old houses there,,besides san antonio de padua parish in tonsuya,,the house of the santos on the right oh the church...i think it's still there..around niugan,sa vicencio street,i think meron din..too bad wala na yung kay sanciangco e.tapat dati ng ortega street..ours have been demolished long time ago..around the early 80's yata..

i documented, as much as i can, all the old houses of malabon, even those in niugan and tonsuya, you can check the map i prepared.i have undergone, as thorough as i can research about malabon and navotas. once in a while we conduct tours of malabon.should you be in manila,and we have a tour, try joining.sa tonsuya and niugan i found around 15?,including the ruins.check my links about other forgotten sites about malabon,medio nakakakilabot to know what was there that most people dont know and have been forgotten.

hi alex, thanks for visiting this site. what do you mean by any-one related to the pascuals of navotas? are the owners related of those who posted? if it is about the pictures, you have the arsenio pascual, wenceslao pascual, elueterio pascual, sinfroso pascual. basically the pascuals are related to each other. you can link to them upto bataan. for those who posted, i suppose some of them are.

ganda ng shots...i was born in Malabon too,,,tinajeros...but now in pasig...now ko lang nakita 'tong mga 'to...though i go to concepcion minsan...add kita sir a...thanks...nice work.

All the pictures were simply amazing. Taga Malabon din po ako, Javier II Street in Baritan. My Mama is the youngest of the cartoonist Jose Zabala and a relative of Nonoy Marcelo of Ikabod. My Papa is from Baritan. Diyan na po ako lumaki pero sa St. Gabriel Academy ako nag-elementary at sa SMACC [OLGA] nag-high school. Congratulations po in your success in informing the public that Malabon, indeed, is a cultural heritage. Naniniwala po ako na malaki ang potential ng Malabon to be one of the best cities in the country. Madaming entrepreneurs, masisipag mga tao, madi-diskarte rin dahil hindi basta basta tumira jan especially pag tag ulan. Sana mas maraming tao ang magtulungan in making sure na mapaganda pa lalo ang image ng Malabon at mas umunlad ang kabuhayan. Nasa States na po ako since last year and I am really proud to say na taga-Malabon po ako pag may nakikilalalang kababayan natin. Napakaraming memories in Malabon na tumulong sakin to be hard working, patient, simple and religious in my own ways. I take pride that I hailed from Malabon. Sana mag-tulungan lahat even in their own simple ways. Ung youngest sister ko po ay member ng Lords and Ladies of the Altar Choir ng Conception Church. Miss ko na rin lahat ng relatives ko jan in Javier, Dampalit, Sto. Rosario, Celia Dos, Tugatog at C. Arellano. I plan to help out with the Malabon public library in "Justice". I am an avid reader and I am sure malaki ang maitutulong sa mga batang estudyante ng Malabon kung kumpleto ang reference materials at mas maraming mga bagong libro. Kapitbahay namin ang head librarian [Ms. Cruz] sa Javier and hopefully ay magawa ko po ito as soon as makapag bakasyon sa atin ulit. Kung may mga interesadong tumulong ay i-message nyo lang po ako para masabi ko po sa inyo ung detailed plan. Sa pakiramdam ko po kasi ay nasa youth and education ang calling ko kaya dun po ako nagfo-focus. Just imagine kung lahat ng kabataan sa Malabon ay makapagbasa ng mga libro, I am sure na magagamit nila ung knowledge to get high grades to get into good schools and eventually have a successful life. Salamat po ulit and I hope to meet you when I go home soon. ^_^

BUHAYIN ANG GANDANG MALABON......... i remember the childhood days ko dyan . lakarin bahay ng mga barkada from san agustin to concepcion , magswimming sa Mary Jane ska palaisdaan, bili ng gamit sa school sa Belson ska cherryben , pagkain sa JAL. maglaro sa Bayan plaza, tingan ang statue ni Dr. Jose Rizal, mamangha sa poste sa gilid ng Statue galing nga pagkakagawa. magbike sa buong malabon pag sabado ska lingo esp. sa lambingan sarap kc hangin doon presko. manood ng sine noon sa filipinas theather, ultra vista. magfishing sa malabon bridge , magpunta sa mga bahay ng classmate pag lingo. hayyy sarap talaga sa malabon ...

the dome was damaged during the wrath of milenio, in 2005(?), nasira isang side, revealing an 18th century construction of the dome. the have to repair the whole thing. sad but what can we do.

Photos of the old houses brought pleasant memories of what was once a beautiful town. The Zablans and the Raymundos were in our immediate neighborhood, the Zablan house directly across ours and the Raymundo residence one property away on the same side of Arellano St. in Barrio Ibaba. Thanks for documenting a part of our heritage. Am in QC now but visit Malabon occasionally. . . sad to see the changes. I added your link to my Facebook, thanks.

thanks for posting these pix. taga-hulong duhat malabon ako... my lola's house is also old though refurbishments have alreay been made to some parts of the house...
katuwa yung house kasi may silong... nakaangat ang house. don't know why. usually may stairs patungong balkonahe :)

^sa hulong duhat po. malapit sa mercury drug. :)

i just want to say you guys are awesome,what you guys doing in malabon is very nice.by tha way i was born in may-silo.i left malabon when i was nine years old.and my father used to live in bari-tan old house.he used to be police officer in malabon hes named is Sgt; renato visencio santos a lot of people call my dad kamatis but my dad died long time ago.i just wondering if tha santos family still own tha property or they all-ready sold tha old house

hi richard, wow, nice pictures of the old houses in Malabon. Ito yung sinasabi ni Lucas ng Rufina Patis.. Bakit ka pa pupunta ng Vigan to see vintage houses.. dapat i-develop ni Mayor Oreta na maging tourist destination din ang Malabon. At i-preserved din ang mga bahay na ganito. Kulang lang sa promotion. I'm from Dampalit at nakakaawa yung nagiisang old house dun (yellow paint..was it pascual?), kinain na ng tubig.. lalo ngayon na halos hanggang dibdib ang itinaas ng daan.

BTW, do you have any idea if the book of Nonoy Marcelo about Malabon will still push thru? Last time I heard, the manuscripts were finished by Nonoy before he died in October of 2002. Naghahanap pa siguro yung mga descendants nya ng sponsor for the book.

Hi Gladys,

Sorry for the very late reply, ngayon ko lang napuntahan ulit ang account ko.

the malabon book ni nonoy is available na, hindi ako natuwa sa outcome and post production....... Monchet Lucas sold numerous copies. you can ask the Lucases for a copy.

No comment na lang ako sa Local GU. and that is more than enough for a comment.

The house you were saying sa Dampalit, yung kay Mary Pascual-Salao Santos, then go north pa, yung sa mga Cruz din.

Ikot ka pa ng Malabon, madami pa akong hindi naisamang bahay dito.
Thanks

Richard, I just saw your page! Nice! I hope I can be of help to you. But, just the same... JOB WELL DONE! Chona

try this. http://www.pasqual.org/d1.htm#g1 I'm searching for my Santos roots and i accidentally found this site. this will help you Mr. Alejandro Pascual.

Hi Sir Richard,

My mom's grandmother's name is Felisa Bonzon.. Mom told me that 2nd family lang daw ang mga tatay nya.. Andres Santos was the name of my mom's grandfather.. para kasi ako ngayong naglalaro ng puzzle.. hehe naghahanap tlga ako ng makakatulong.. kaya natagpuan ko tong multiply mo. Salamat po!

My mom is a graduate of NTC Malabon Batch 63, shes trying to look for some of her classmates... my moms name is Josefina M. Miguel.. Can anyone please if you know someone.