15 Photos of EDSA Through the Years

EDSA, the country's busiest highway, is a major thoroughfare that almost every Filipino is familiar with. Named after historian, jurist, and scholar Epifanio de los Santos, the highway has been through just about everything since its construction. Here's a collection of both old and recent photos of EDSA for a little nostalgia.

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Back when EDSA was known as Highway 54

A young woman poses next to a multi-direction road sign.

EDSA in the '60s

Shortly before flyovers and billboards filled the highway

EDSA-Guadalupe southbound

A different view of EDSA-Guadalupe

EDSA in the 1970s

Approaching Makati City

The Makati eagle boundary marker in EDSA

EDSA in 1983

Protestors in EDSA during the People Power Revolution

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Ortigas Avenue corner EDSA during the '90s

EDSA in 1991

A typical EDSA road scene in the '90s

Advertising billboards during the late '90s