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| Randy in front of the Panama Interoceanic Canal Museum, in the Casco Viejo area of Panama City. The museum details Panama's history as a transoceanic route. In this excellent museum are found memorabilia from colonial Spanish times. such as muskets, sabers, cannonballs and coins, an exhibit dedicated to the Gold Rush and the building of the Panama Railroad, charts, maps, photos of the Canal excavation, stock certificates from the bankrupted French Canal Company and copies of the Hay-Bunau Varrilla and Torrijos-Carter treaties. There is even a photo of Richard Halliburton, an adventurer who swam the canal in the 1920s and paid the lowest toll ever: 36 cents, based on his weight of 140 pounds. |
