Great history here. The view of the Texaco oil refinery brought back memories of my apprenticeship at Pointe-a-Pierre at the time that this video was filmed.
I enjoyed the video especially our Independence celebration in 1962. I can remember seeing bright lights of which I had never seen before, and was amazed. I never knew that manual lighting could be bright as daylight. At the Oval my school, Richmond Street Boys' was there. I was looking to see if we lucky enough to be picked up on camera. (lol)
Quite a big difference today, this clip should be a constant reminder of what trinbago should always aspire to it should be instilled into the psychic of the people by our leaders.
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Very educational. As a "TRINI" by association I learned a about
the history of T+T.
Notice in the carnival clip that that even back then the tempo and pace of the steelband music was slower and more mellow that that of the brass band.
Even in those days, masqueraders tended to " chip" along to steelband music, and "Jump up " to the sound of the brass band.
Great history here. The view of the Texaco oil refinery brought back memories of my apprenticeship at Pointe-a-Pierre at the time that this video was filmed.
Thank You Pan Times,
I enjoyed the video especially our Independence celebration in 1962. I can remember seeing bright lights of which I had never seen before, and was amazed. I never knew that manual lighting could be bright as daylight. At the Oval my school, Richmond Street Boys' was there. I was looking to see if we lucky enough to be picked up on camera. (lol)