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Last Christmas in Chicago

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Chicago, Illinois • December 1978. Christmas Eve at Barr Tower, Apt 1202 — a Perseveranda family flashback from 856 W Nelson St. filipinos in chicago, fil-am family, chicago illinois, perseveranda, christmas 1978, barr tower, filipino diaspora, chicago filipinos. CHICAGO • DECEMBER 1978 Christmas Eve 1978: A Perseveranda Family Flashback at Barr Tower, Chicago Before California was even a twinkle in our minds — Jonjo, Nati, and Joy at Apt 1202, 856 W Nelson St, Chicago, IL. Jonjo, Nati & Joy • Christmas Eve 1978 • Apt 1202, Barr Tower, Chicago. Photo: Ronnie Perseveranda It was Christmas Eve 1978. The tree was up, the presents hadn't been opened yet — a Perseveranda house rule — and somewhere behind that camera stood our dad, Ronnie, capturing what would become one of the most treasured photographs in our family archive. That's Jonjo (me), Mom (Nati), and my sister Joy, in the living room of Apt 1202 at ...
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Location: 856 W Nelson St, Chicago, IL 60657, USA
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On This Day: December 16, 7 Years ago

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My Benicia High School bunso and me.  Did you know you backup your photos online for free if you have an Amazon Prime account.  Salamat Amazon Photos for the reminder. 
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A 20-Year Throwback to Friendship & Laughter

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Happy Birthday again, Missy! Flashback to January 18, 2005 when I hung out with you and met Maricruz. I had not posted these photos since they were taken before we all joined Facebook (me in 2007). Great meeting you Maricruz! Tess and the kids had flown to the Philippines in early December so thanks you two for letting me hang out. I'm pretty sure we finished at least a couple bottles of Cabernet Sauvignon. Peace my friend! November is the month of Thanksgiving  Missy, thank you for being part of my story, for the good energy you’ve always shared, and your friendship. You deserve a birthday filled with love, peace, blessings, and the kind of laughter that echoes like it did back in 2005. I would have posted our Seattle vacation pix, but I still have to scan phtos prior to December 2000 (when I got my first digital camera). Stay tuned; I'll be scanning those. Happy Birthday, Missy. Here’s to more years of connection, friendship, and moments worth remembering. ...
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Location: Vallejo, CA, USA
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When the kuya brought bunso for redeye to Chicago ✈️

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✈️ Travel Throwback: Chesca’s First Trip to Chicago 🇺🇸 J.F.R. Perseveranda Tuesday, July 5, 2022 July 5, 2022 — A memorable day for our family, especially for my youngest daughter, Chesca. This was her very first visit to my U.S. hometown of Chicago. Her kuya Jian brought us to SFO that night for her red-eye flight. We were both attending my niece’s high school graduation party — a long-awaited family reunion. For me, it was a return to familiar places and faces. For Chesca, it was a special second: meeting her three girl cousins close to her age for the first time in years, reconnecting with my Tita Lita and Tito Narding after so many years. It was heartwarming to watch a new generation build ties with roots they’ve only heard about in stories. Travel throwbacks like this remind us of how family — and a sense of home — can stretch across miles, memories, and generations. #PinoyBuilt #FilAmFamily #TravelThrowback #ChicagoTrip #FilAmYouth #FilipinoAmerican #PinayA...
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Fil-Am Flashback: Nica's Rockband: Jian & Chesca. Memories from Overlook

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Memories from our Overlook house Thanks to Facebook for the memory. But I had restricted the YouTube subsequently after sharing it on FB. I just made my YouTube video public again. 2008 July2. Vallejo, CA. Their mommy shot the video. Since we had our first kid, Nica, I always encouraged her to shoot photos/videos while I was still at work. (We didn't have to pay for Costco photo processing anymore. LOL). Per the filename 20080702161804, it was 4:18 PM so I was still at work in Fairfield. I love how Jian leaves the Rockband session by running away when he sees the food his mommy had cooked, and says, " Ooh lumpia !" LOL! We never worried about Jian and Chesca eating -- only their Ate Nica.  When Nica was a small toddler, she had always shown natural musical gifts. Nica even made up her own songs. I got her first toy keyboard (a red one) when she was two years old I believe. I encouraged her to perform, and always had her sing karaoke at our parties. She ha...
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Location: Vallejo, CA, USA
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Olan Mills Family Photo

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Olan Mills is now Lifetouch Vallejo, CA. Throwback Thursday. Photo was either taken near the end of my junior year in high school, or the summer after my 11th grade. Sophomore year for Joy in Hogan High School. I don't remember where the Olan Mills studio was located in Vallejo.  I love this photo of Mom. Olan Mills, Inc. was a privately owned American company founded in 1932 by Olan Mills Sr. and Mary Mills which was headquartered in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It provided portrait photography and church directories through its two main corporate divisions: Olan Mills Portrait Studios and Olan Mills Church Division. On November 9, 2011, Lifetouch Inc. announced that it had purchased the Olan Mills photography business, Olan Mills Church Directories and Olan Mills Portrait Studios, its corporate functions, and the production operations in Chattanooga. Join the #FilipinoAmerican conversation. Comment below. #PinoyPride #Filipino Click to follow this website . Like our Facebook Page ...
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Location: Vallejo, CA, USA
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Remembering Marciano Perseveranda Jr.

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Flashback: My Dad, 2 of his younger brothers & me Left to right: Manny, Jonjo, Ronnie & Sonny. Where & when was this Dad? Am I six months old? Advance 'Happy Father's Day'! Update: Novaliches 1967 per my dad.  Join the #FilipinoAmerican conversation. Comment below. #PinoyPride #Filipino Click to follow this website . Like our Facebook Page Pinoy Built . Thank you. Salamat po. blog,community,fil-am, filipino american,
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Happy Father's Day, dads!

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My baptism in Makati Philippines Per my grandfather's writing, this was my baptism. I'm about 3.5 mos. My dad is on the left, wearing the barong tagalog. His dad, my Lolo, is wearing his typical suit. My mom of course is carrying me, my dad's mom behind her, and my dad's three sisters to the right. Happy Father's Day, dad. See you in a bit. Perseveranda baptism: Ronnie,..., Marciano. Join us & help build a Fil-Am online community. Please leave a comment, and  click to follow our website  www.pinoybuilt.com. Join one of our sites in California: Los Angeles , Sacramento ,  San Diego , San Francisco ,  San Jose  or Vallejo . Click on a tag below to browse.
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Location: Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines
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Thanksgiving Throwback: Overlook

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Tess, Nica & Jian 2003 November 27. Vallejo, CA. Thanksgiving party at our Overlook house in 2003. We had lived there a little over a year only. This is pre-Chesca, but she's on the way. Please click to follow our website/blog PINOYBUILT .
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Location: Vallejo, CA, USA
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Thanksgiving Throwback: Happy Turkey Day

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Hello Tito Maning! Left to right: Puri, Manny, Grace & Luz. Benicia, CA. November 28, 2013 Please click to follow our website/blog PINOYBUILT .
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Location: Benicia, CA, USA
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Marty Badiola: Happy Birthday!

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Flashback from March 28, 2004 when I flew to Chicago for Kadence's christening. HBD again cousin Marty! 🎉👊🏽 Check out cousin Edgar Allan Rivera in his barong . I got one on too as a ninong . Please click to follow our website/blog PINOYBUILT .
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Happy heavenly birthday Dinna Santiago!

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Flashback to our Senior Snow Trip Cool shot of us in the Hogan High School yearbook. Left to right: Dinna, Rudy Jandoc, Sheila Tabilon, Rochelle Santiago and me. FIL-AM. FILIPINO/FILIPINA-AMERICAN.  Click on any photo above to enlarge, Use left/right arrows to navigate. Please drop us a comment below. 🙏🏽 Help us grow Pinoybuilt to be the number one  Filipino-American  online community in California, if not the USA. 🇺🇸  Please click  this to follow www.pinoybuilt.com . 🤙🏽 Thank you! 👊🏽 Maraming salamat po kabayan. 🇵🇭 ✌🏽 Pinoybuilt uses Disqus as the commenting system because it prevents spam, but also because it connects our various sub-sites like LA.pinoybuilt.com , HI.pinoybuilt.com , AU.pinoybuilt.com & PH.pinoybuilt.com . Comments help a website go viral (and make $$$) so we hope to hear from you. 🙏🏽 Know anyone who'd be interested in blogging for Pinoybuilt. Please share this site with them. Btw, blogging is what you do on Faceb...
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Baliwag-Reyes Siblings Reunion

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My mom, Lualhati Reyes Baliwag Perseveranda, her mom Amparo Baliwag Reyes & mom's siblings. December 29, 2000. This was a get-together at Dennis' house in Glencove in Vallejo, CA. Tourists from Malate, Manila were Carmelita and Constante. Seated: Rebecca Reyes Dayan, cousin Darwin Dayan, Lola Amparo Baliwag Reyes. Standing: siblings Marinella, Carmelita, Lualhati, Adora, & Constante. Lola Amparo with six of her eight children.  Amparo Enriquez Baliwag Reyes FIL-AM. FILIPINO/FILIPINA-AMERICAN.  Click on any photo above to enlarge, Use left/right arrows to navigate. Please drop us a comment below. 🙏🏽 Help us grow Pinoybuilt to be the number one  Filipino-American  online community in California, if not the USA. 🇺🇸  Please click  this to follow www.pinoybuilt.com . 🤙🏽 Thank you! 👊🏽 Maraming salamat po kabayan. 🇵🇭 ✌🏽 Pinoybuilt uses Disqus as the commenting system because it prevents spam, but also because it connects our variou...
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Location: Vallejo, CA, USA
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Good Morning! #TBT #throwback #twentyyears

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Mom & Dad visited us after I gave the kids a haircut May 3, 2003. Vallejo, CA: After months of not getting her way, my wife threatened to divorce me if I didn't shave our kids' heads. She believed their hair would be thicker if I did so. I really did not want to shave off my daughter's hair, but two and a half year old Nica was so cool about it. Mom & Nica Nica and her mommy Please drop us a comment below. Help us grow Pinoybuilt to be the number one Filipino-American online community in California, if not the USA. 🇺🇸 Please click this to follow www.pinoybuilt.com . Thank you! Maraming salamat po kabayan. 🇵🇭 
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Jordan Reyes' Debut: Reyes Siblings

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Rebecca Reyes-Dayan, Lualhati Reyes-Perseveranda, Marinella Reyes-Lopez, Constante Reyes & Adora Reyes-Castaneda pose with the debutante Jordan Reyes. South San Francisco, April 19, 2008. Five of the eight Reyes siblings were able to attend. Please drop us a comment below. Help us grow Pinoybuilt to be the number one Filipino-American online community in California, if not the USA. 🇺🇸 Please click this to follow www.pinoybuilt.com . Thank you! Maraming salamat po kabayan. 🇵🇭 
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Location: South San Francisco, CA, USA
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TBT: Forever Young

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Throwback to Las Vegas. December 2010. Please drop us a comment below. Help us grow Pinoybuilt to be the number one Filipino-American online community in California, if not the USA. 🇺🇸 Please click this to follow www.pinoybuilt.com . Thank you! Maraming salamat po kabayan. 🇵🇭 
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Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA
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Maapag, Valencia, Bukidnon: At the farm. March 30.

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My baby girl was only 8.5 months. Maapag, Valencia, Bukidnon Please drop us a comment below. Help us grow Pinoybuilt to be the number one Filipino-American online community in California, if not the USA. 🇺🇸 Please click this to follow www.pinoybuilt.com . Thank you! Maraming salamat po kabayan. 🇵🇭 
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Location: Maapag, Valencia City, Bukidnon, Philippines
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Cousins Hoop Down Under - March 2013

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Wayback Wednesday in Australia Ten years ago, Rosanne, Marc and I walked to a neighborhood park to shoot some hoops before lunch.   🇵🇭 Please drop us a comment below in the comment box at the bottom. Login automatically into the Disqus box with your Facebook, Twitter or Google account. Follow Pinoybuilt . 🇺🇸 Let's create the #1 Fil-Am / Filipino-American website in California , if not the USA . Worldwide ? Please follow our social media accounts: www.instagram.com/pinoy.built www.facebook.com/pinoybuilt www.facebook.com/jonjo You have an open invitation to blog with me here. Posts here are auto-tweeted to my Twitter account (15,000+ followers) & auto-posted to the Pinoybuilt Facebook Page. So if you'd like assistance in marketing an event, yourself or your business, join me. Just send me your Gmail. Cheers. Please click to subscribe: my YouTube channel www.pinoybuilt.com
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Joy, when did Angel go to Chicago?

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Flashback to our last Christmas in Chicago I just scanned this throwback from December 1978, our last winter in Chicago. Apartment 1202 in Warren Barr Tower. This was the living room, which was also my bedroom. I'll edit later and re-post. 🇵🇭 Please drop us a comment below in the comment box at the bottom. Login automatically into the Disqus box with your Facebook, Twitter or Google account. Follow Pinoybuilt . 🇺🇸 Let's create the #1 Fil-Am / Filipino-American website in California , if not the USA . Worldwide ? Please follow our social media accounts: www.instagram.com/pinoy.built www.facebook.com/pinoybuilt www.facebook.com/jonjo You have an open invitation to blog with me here. Posts here are auto-tweeted to my Twitter account (15,000+ followers) & auto-posted to the Pinoybuilt Facebook Page. So if you'd like assistance in marketing an event, yourself or your business, join me. Just send me your Gmail. Cheers. Please click to subscribe: my YouTube channel ww...
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Location: Chicago, IL, USA
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Throwback: Jian on elliptical. Updated Capcut this morning.

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Updated Capcut this morning. Tried out recording a VoiceOver for the first time. Used 'Black Panther' filter. #jiancarlo #fitness #elliptical  🇵🇭 Please drop us a comment below in the comment box at the bottom. Login automatically into the Disqus box with your Facebook, Twitter or Google account. Follow Pinoybuilt . 🇺🇸 Let's create the #1 Fil-Am / Filipino-American website in California , if not the USA . Worldwide ? Please follow our social media accounts: www.instagram.com/pinoy.built www.facebook.com/pinoybuilt www.facebook.com/jonjo You have an open invitation to blog with me here. Posts here are auto-tweeted to my Twitter account (15,000+ followers) & auto-posted to the Pinoybuilt Facebook Page. So if you'd like assistance in marketing an event, yourself or your business, join me. Just send me your Gmail. Cheers. Please click to subscribe: my YouTube channel www.pinoybuilt.com
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