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Kai Tak Approach Lights
Submitted by marlowe

Kai Tak Approach lights,

(from a video I found)

Date picture taken (may be approximate): 
Monday, January 1, 1990
Gallery: 
1990s Hong Kong
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Submitted by philk on Mon, 2013-02-18 09:54.

This building is still around - on the corner of Hau Wong and Nga Tsin Wai Roads.

https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en-GB&ll=22.328946,114.189236&spn=0.0013...

You can still see the angled part of the roof where the lights used to sit.

Submitted by raymond tse on Mon, 2013-02-18 10:49.

I remember there was a theatre in that neighbourhood that was painted light blue green, called 國際 International(?), am I right?

Can anyone post a picture please?

Submitted by tngan on Mon, 2013-02-18 11:07.

Hi there,

I believe the building had been demolished some time in 2012.  StreetView captured it back in 2011 though.  

Thanks & Best Regards,

T

Submitted by raymond tse on Mon, 2013-02-18 11:50.

Thanks for posting, but it looks like a residential building more than a theatre.

Submitted by tngan on Mon, 2013-02-18 12:47.

Hi there,

If it was a movie theatre that you were talking about, I think it had been demoished for more than a decade ago.  Was it on Fu Lo Tsuen Road?  I couldn't even remember.

Best Regards,

T

Submitted by moddsey on Sat, 2015-10-03 07:11.

From memory, the theatre would be on Fuk Lo Tsun Road approximately two blocks west as shown here

Submitted by raymond tse on Tue, 2013-02-19 14:09.

Hi T and Moddsey,

yes I was talking about the theatre, but exactly where I can't remember. I can only recall the last movie I saw was taking in early 80s, a Cantonese movie by Simon Yam and Kwan Hoi-shan.

BTW I managed to find a pic of the theatre from Google the other day and had posted it for sharing.

Ray

Submitted by tngan on Tue, 2013-02-19 14:58.

Hi Ray,

If this is the case, the theatre would be in the present day location of these few taller buildings.  Probably not all the way through the bigger block though,

There is one interesting thing of the bigger block of building as it used to host the first high-tech cark park in Hong Kong.  Something like a pre-curser of the type of Car Parks as seen in the movie Mission Impossible IV in a much smaller scale.  That was a bit more than a decade ago.  The parking system failed some time later and it ceased to operate.  

From the Street View there is still a car park sign there.  Don't know if the current car park service has anything to do with the one ten years before.

Best Regards,

T

Submitted by raymond tse on Wed, 2013-02-20 05:40.

Hi T,

thanks for the information.

BTW, can you teach me how to post a picture and create a link in the message like what you did above? 'cause I am quite new to this website.

Ray

Submitted by tngan on Wed, 2013-02-20 16:40.

Hi Ray,

When you create a new comment, or reply to an existing message, you should be able to see a menu bar under 'Comment:*'.  I used the function of embedding a URL into the text by first high-lighting a word or a phrase, then select the LINK icon, which looks like a chain.  It won't light up until the text is selected.  

After selected the text for hyperlink and clicking the Link icon, a dialog box would appear.  You simply copy and past the URL and select the next action button is all.

Hope this helps.

T

Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2013-02-20 18:46.

Here is a guide that shows how to upload a photo to this site:

http://gwulo.com/node/2076

Regards, David