trilogy Following our last vestiges of Rojas Magallanes Avenue East, and we opened with the previous text entry dedicated to the Casona de los Adobes of the street in conjunction with Florida Avenue, we now review a landmark (or what's left of it) and can be observed even pointed halfway between the point of the avenue and the San Carlos Canal, which has long said the highlight of this street before new developments that lasted longer the east of this river.
Rojas Magallanes Going up from Avenida La Florida, at the corner of East Street and the start evidently inclined to take this line of landscape (more or less in the middle of the section east of Rojas Magallanes we studied), was behind the fences and palisades of the then dirt road, a small clearing wet grass, dry leaves and stones, guarded by about five or six huge huge tree trunks, and only rarely seen alive.
were eucalyptus, or at least three of them safely as we remember, for the most gigantic of all, which lit menthol odor walks by and dumped en masse "coconuts" to the environment of paddocks and farms of yesteryear.
The measured how these eucalyptus, is not in our data. We'll never know. "30 meters? "50 meters? More? ... We do not know her age, but once we heard that was more than a century, and bundles it was an old mall that existed in the sector, like many others in the commune of La Florida that have disappeared (recently were felled remains of what was in front of the Bicentennial Stadium, not far from there and was composed of poplar). We only know that they were over there by the edge of the former land of the priests of La Salle to the side of the road is now the avenue Rojas Magallanes.
saw the majestic eucalyptus from several sides of the commune, according to former neighbors, like a bunch of branches staked on land began to rise at the foot of those hills and mountains.
is true that the memories and impressions lie, cheat and idealize themselves, but those logs that are there are enough evidence to speak of trees unquestionably giants, monsters, as you probably do not exist in other eucalypts Santiago urban radio.
For many years these great representatives of the exotic plants located along the road served as a warning to travelers: which border pillar, marking the boundary of the safest place in the municipality with respect to where the land began uncertain. Immediately beyond, in an area known as La Loma, had installed the then isolated and very dark people of the same name, narrow passages and emerged from camps and take on a kind of high in the hills. Today is very different and far more sinister in his time.
At that time, however, all this area that Segi to large trees, had a reputation for fearsome and brave. And above semi-rural areas was no less feared, suburbs where he continued to challenge the rule of law and fair, in which a stranger was not welcome. The low lighting, the helplessness and lack of law enforcement or security around these parts, contributed to their fame and criminal acts, according to the experience of friends of those years was not small.
Just around the beginning of the nineties began to reach the public transportation in this sector, with a micro, as part of its route, was a strange up and down immediately by Rojas Magallanes, just to slightly above the sector of large trees.
In other words, all indicated that those who venture beyond the large eucalyptus trees, he did know and face the risks of such audacity.
However, all this untamed environment, we achieved to meet friends in raids carried in the vehicle at his home in La Loma or ending nights out partying with unrivaled postcard Santiago night lights seen from those heights, has disappeared in our days, becoming a much more docile and gentle. The opening of new streets and the empowerment of public transport services began increasingly linking these corners with the rest of the city, pacified by conviction and convenience.
nineties, the land of vineyards and hills were sold by the priests to developers and so were new and bonded residential villas, where years before more development seemed impossible. Still from scratch in the next decade, quickly sprouted houses and new streets in the Villa Rojas Magallanes, and the small clear that once-off and a warning to pedestrians not used to the rough environment of the sector, was converted into a small plaza now dominated by trees and other oriental plane rather small.
We think it was around this time that the giant guardians of access to the hills were cut down, which collapsed the titans cast out of heaven, and coinciding with the absence of any need for his warning on the road, and the neighborhoods changed and tamed its terrors.
However, the bottom of their trunks were so thick and so deep rooted that there should be untouched as a reminder of the landscape that once was this stretch of the street. They can even be seen on the dry wood makes chainsaw who tried to completely eliminate their mark on local history, but frustrated that task impossible. Now look like the remains of some ancient palace columns knocked down, or a temple collapsed on itself after a Carthaginian aggression or Hun.
However, the destruction was not total: miraculously, one of the trees has sprouted again and now offers tree seedlings of life that refuses to die. Perhaps someday in the future, reaching again the enormous size that had the tree to which it belongs.
In the next post, we will see a third track that is still Rojas Magallanes Avenue, just above where are these giant logs, which was once part of those warnings that the presence of eucalyptus trying ask travelers who ventured into these areas only for reckless and daring.
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