Clumped together on Quezon St you have Gloria’s Beach Cottages (cottages P400, 4-person cottages P600), with shady, balconied cottages and a bigger four-person cottage with bathroom.
This memory came back to me one day while I was working at the laundry, and I started seeing the opening scene of a story: girls showering in a locker room where there were no U-rings, pink plastic curtains, or privacy.
Pillows. . . yes. If you look in the cupboard, the large white one upstairs - to the left of the bathroom door - there should be four or five on the top shelf.
The bridge became a holding cell, one without bathrooms or water or mercy from the brutal sun where the crush of migrants waited to see if they would be allowed to pass.