#granorientefilipino

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#tbt #GranOrienteFilipino #historicalphotos scanned @sfpubliclibrary @somapilipinas "Kodakan 2017." #FilipinoAmericanHistory • I "coincidentally" walked into the library at the same time someone was bringing the stunning 1924 GOF photo he'd found in his attic. Wow! Cousin @drmabalon brought my dad's (who arrived in the USA in 1929) first GOF portrait from Lolo Ambo's collection. Just in his teens in this photo, he'd serve the Masonic organization throughout his life. (at San Francisco, California)

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#tbt 1960: Am with my dad (with black hair + my smile :) and his fraternity brothers at the San Francisco apartment hotel they own via their Masonic #GranOrienteFilipino lodges that provided #immigrants with #lowcosthousing for decades. #SFSoma 106 S. Park (at San Francisco Soma)