The clip is of Avenida Central, now the pedestrian boulevard, in 1958. Interesting note of the Imperial beer crate used by the traffic official and the Sears building; the shot of the Cine Rex, now a McDonalds, diagonal to the Parque Central.
The march through the streets is of Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia and his Republicano Nacional party.
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Among the comments posted on the Facebook page:
Andrea M Loring, “When Costa Rica was for the Costa Ricans, clean and tidy …”
Kebin Venegas, “The streets are clean.”
Jorge Badilla writes, “This great … still in the 80s when I joined the Traffic Police (Policia de Transito) I was taught to regulate the traffic in a box like the one that appears in the video”.
