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Here is another photo of the Peninsula Hotel which shows up the wartime camouflage colours better. The roofs of the KCR Station also appear to be blotched and darker than normal.
Your linked wartime photo of Arthur Ball's set on Flickr also shows the Pen in camouflage colours immediately after the war. [In Arthur's photo you can see the Japanese had been busy with the camouflage paint. Even the clock tower has been given a coat. MrB]
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What's that
What's that futuristic-looking round building in Arthur's photo, any ideas? It's a little to the right of the Peninsula, about where Chungking Mansions would be today.
MrB
It might be the Chungking Market
Hi there,
According to the fifth article of this link (http://www.3pforum.com/bbs/thread-4834-1-9.html) in Chinese the site of the current Chungking Mansions had been a market place called the Chungking Market (重慶市場). During the Japanese Occupation the Japanese changed it's name to Chunghing (重興市場) Market so it did not resemble the wartime capital of China, Chungking (重慶)。
I am uncertain whether the description includes the round structure, however.
T
Chungking Market - Confirmed
Chunking Market
this is a great photo of the
View of TST from HKPL
The photo Sentinel refers to above. Sentinel, nice shot - did the original page give any date?
Probably somewhere in the late 1950's
On second thought......... The Star House construction site...
Star Ferry
1964 or earlier
You can see the TST-East reclamation is underway in the distance. The 'Mapping Hong Kong' book has an air survey photograph of Kowloon dated 1964. In the survey photo, the reclamation looks to be more complete than in the photo above.
MrB
Chungking Market
Hi T, Thanks for identifying the building. I'm curious to know how you did it - you're very quick at locating these old photos!
Cheers, MrB
Identifying Chungking Market
Earlier than 1964 indeed.
Identifying
Aha! I'm missing out on a lot of good information by not reading Chinese. Glad to have some regular visitors like yourself who can help access the Chinese-language information.
Regards, MrB
1963
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Sands Theatre
It might be the Chungking Market
Regarding the Chungking Arcade, there is an article by Mr. Cheng Po Hung from a Chinese newspaper web site.
The photo the following article is referring can be found in http://image.wenweipo.com/2007/10/11/ed1011c3.jpg
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A similar photo can also be found in Hedda Morrison's collection taken in 1946 which the Chungking Arcade can actually be seen (the one storey building next to the Rose Hotel on the left) though the round shaped structure is not in the photo.
http://www.heddamorrison.com/hm/images/kp_photo/011D.jpg
Rose Hotel
A color photo from the 50s
A color photo from the 50s of Chungking Arcade has been unearthed. Please follow the link and find post #206. The photo was taken at the entrance of Chungking Arcade. The round space structure can also be seen.
http://www.uwants.net/viewthread.php?tid=5963360&page=14&extra=page%3D1
Good find
Thanks for the link to the Chunking arcade photo.
MrB
Star Theatre
Here is another one which I think from the same batch of photos. The photo shows the Star Theatre (later itt was rebuilt and become Sands Theatre) at Hankow Road and Peking Road. The TST in the 50s really had the feel of small American town; that weren't too many Chinese signs and shops were very colorful.
Follow the link and find post #278
http://www.uwants.net/viewthread.php?tid=5310056&extra=page%3D3&page=19