Ukay Article 6: UKAY UKAY IN BAGUIO CITY

UKAY UKAY IN BAGUIO CITY
By: http://www.gobaguio.com/

Long before SM City Baguio was erected on Luneta Hill (where grand old Pines Hotel used to stand), office workers in Camp John Hay invited me one day to go to "SM!"

Knowing then that there was no such mall in the City of Pines, I went along and, to my surprise, they took me to a street behind the old Bayanihan Hotel where second hand clothes were for sale.

For that was what SM stood for in Baguio City in the early 1990s -- Segunda
Mano, a Spanish phrase meaning "second hand"), instead of the initials of a popular string of malls in the Philippines: SM, which was originally named Shoe Mart.

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