Picture above.. Map of Gatun, compliments of Bill Roddy, The History Company Publisher.

Circa 1950's - Locks employees put up a Christmas tree every year, to share the Holiday Season with transiting ships.

From the front cover of the January 1960 Panama Canal Review magazine. All 14 gates at the Gatun Spillway are open, to allow excess water from Gatun Lake to spill out and down the Chagres River.

Niagara whirlpools have nothing on the Chagres River when the Gatun spillway gates are open. In this picture, scanned from the Aug. 6, 1954 Panama Canal Review, there are 9 gates open.

Gatun Union Church, located in New Town. I lived across the street, one house down.

Gatun Police Station, located in Old Town.

Gatun Railroad Station, 1913 - the orginal Commissary in the back of the picture. The railroad station and the Commy were located directly across from the locks.

The 'old' Gatun Fire Station, circa, 1913to 20's, it is in the same location, as the current fire station.

Old Town, Gatun: picture taken in 1913 - only the bridge across the RR tracks still exists. You can also see, part of the old Gatun Commissary on the bottom right hand side of the picture.

Another angle of the old Fire Station House, and the older style homes on Bolivar Hwy., as they looked in the 1930's.

Gatun's Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception, further down Bolivar Hwy.