These photos are all that is left of the Gorgona hotel which stood on main street Gorgona, Canal Zone.  This hotel was on of the big ones in the Canal Zone.  Gorgona was one of the oldest and largest towns.  It's existance goes back to the days of the Spaniards. The railroad station is in the lower left corner of the photo.  Part of the roof is seen.  The small building next door to the hotel is  the ICC dentist office.  Before Gorgona Island was destroyed by the Panama Canal Dredging Division, I used to walk on the back island which is the hill in the photo, that all the building are on.  The foundations for all these buildings were still  in there place since the  time of these buildings.  I have said this before, that it is too bad the islands that was once Gorgona wasn't preserved as a historic site.  There is nothing left of any of the old foundations, steps, road.....nothing.

A real treat is the photo below that my brother Barry has in his collection.  This is the dinning room of the Gorgona Hotel.  What a wonderful old photo preserving the memory of this grand room.  They were having a big deal there on this day.  I have sat for over an hour zooming in on these men.  These are men that made the Panama Canal.  I noted that not all of them were comfortable having there picture taken.  No one back then smiled for the photographer either.