Bogota the city, displays Colombia's capital city throughout five epoch. It is s somewhat nostalgic chronicle of by-gone times forever associated to the youthful experiences of Colombians.
This pages show how the ceremonious City of grand occacion furs and dress hats, Prince Albert coats and top hats, changes throught the years into a more informal metropolis whose symbols could very well be the jeans and sneakers of the new offsprings. Likewise , today's housing developments are worlds apart from the XVI Century's 25 narrow and well laid out city blocks between the San Francisco and San Agustin rivers.
Love and also war were made during the sixties. Paris and Chapinero in flames, many things were gained and many were lost. Among the latter,neckties, the novelty of jet flyingand blushing at indecent exposures. It was the decade ushering the first strip-tease joints, spreaing all over Bogota at the bat of an eye.
During the sixties, Vallenato music(accordionish beats from Colombia's uper valley) began its invasion. Within thrirty years, it lifted rock ' n roll's domination and completely sidelined the cumbia and porro sounds. These were years of bell bottoms, miniskirts, rhmbus stockings, huge wrists whatches, platform shoes, black stipes on female eyelids, pale lipstick, hair bands on guy's heads and ribons on the chickks', and the everpresent peace medallions on everybody's chest.