Eventually, Dangwa buses became available for Baguio visitors coming from Manila.”
When the three-story Brookside house was ready for her ex- panding family, Lola permanently moved from the family home on Pepin Street, Dimasalang, Sampaloc. By this time, Lola , a former schoolteacher, had retired from her duties as president of the family-owned National Radio School and Institute of Technology (NRSIT), founded by her husband Enrique Acosta Lolarga in 1931. (NRSIT was first located on R. Hidalgo Street in Quiapo before it moved to Claro M. Recto in Santa Cruz. The school was dissolved in 2005.) She had also returned from an extensive trip to the US and Europe, and was enamored of Switzerland, which might explain her choice of Baguio as destination for the second part of her life. Lola gave without counting the cost, a woman with eyes shut so tight, you could feel the intensity of a prayer flowing through her, a woman with veins so pronounced on both hands, they affirmed her belief that “if you rest, you rust.”
It was in Baguio where she taught by example how to transform a house into a home. When I caught the reading bug, I never ran out of stuff to read in Brookside: back issues of Reader’s Digest , mystery novels, the ever-present Bible (as a devout
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