Map of Heaven in the Tropics

This is the first of many photos I am going to add to our Blogs about Panama and the former Canal Zone. I arrived in Panama 1949 as a kid. Yes, dad worked for the Panama Canal Company. I remember the first day as if it was yesterday and the memories have just grown since. We arrived in Cristobal on the Atlantic side aboard the USS Cristobal. A one hour train ride took us to the Pacific side. And the adventures began.

View of old Canal Zone or Cristobal on the Atlantic side.This street was where the steamship companies were locared. In the old days they handled shipping documents throught this great port. Today there is a very large container port on the Atlantic side. Plus a number of cruise ships stop there. 

This is a view of Bolivar Avenue, Colon. Colon is the large port city of Panama on the Atlantic side. The left side of the photo with the YMCA-USO building was in the Canal Zone. The other side of the street is Colon. Today it is all Colon, Republic of Panama.