Nostalgia Pic #18: _________________ May 1972: Panjim Ferry Wharf, more than three and a half decades ago.
Yesterday's Customs House pics seem to have struck a chord, judging from the response. Today's beautifully-composed capture of the embarkation scene, brings to life, as Tony mentions, the atmosphere as the big Bombay steamers, possibly the "Konkan Sevak" or the "Sarita" gently nudged home into the quay. He points outs the 'foreign' taxis neatly parked, waiting for passengers to disembark,somnolent porters whiling their time away in no apparent hurry - one precariously perched on the railing, chatting with the khaki-clad taxi drivers. This was the grand old picturesque Panjim of yore - the major landmark then and now being the statue of the Abbe Faria - also peering into the scene are the corner of the old Secretariat Bldg., shops and a restaurant. On closer inspection one can even spot the Goa Medical College bus opposite the 1st floor V.P.Sinari Record Shop. Around the corner were the Damsan card shop, and Olav Menezes (?) juicy "Casa Juka"! http://2008goanconvention.com/nostalgia.php A sedate and gentler time, as I mentioned earlier, for a Goa and India just emerging from Indira Gandhi's triumph of the Bangladesh war and disputed elections a year earlier, and yet barely three years away from her disaster of the ill-advised Emergency. Picture: courtesy Tony Fernandes: http://tonferns.blogspot.com/ FR. _________________________________________________________________
