Today marks 40 years since the final day of the Canal Zone, September 30, 1979. Below are photographs from the flag-lowering ceremony at the Administration Building, as well as envelope covers indicating the Canal Zone Post Office’s last day of operation.

What was your experience on September 30, 1979?

Recently the PCMC collection assistants have been working to reorganize all of the serial publications in the collection. Shown here are September issues of The Panama Bulldozer (1943), The Panama Canal Review (1954), and The Panama Canal Spillway (1978).

What do you remember about receiving news in the Canal Zone? Which newspapers and magazines had the best or worst reputations? Did your family subscribe to other papers from around the world? Which ones?

We need your help identifying this event! Notice the sign reads “#7 Gamboa” and the girls on the right are wearing shirts with different words on them, perhaps their names.