highball's

Updated: May 6, 2025

I wandered out past "Highball's" merry-go-round, where huge negro bucks were laughing and playing and riding away their month's pay on the wooden horses like the children they are, and so on to the edge of the sea. Unlike Panama, Colon is flat and square-blocked, as it is considerably darker in complexion with its large mixture of negroes from the Caribbean shores and islands.

Harry Alverson Franck - Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers