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chatham rd 1949.png

chatham rd 1949.png
Submitted by simtang
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chatham road 1949
Date picture taken (may be approximate): 
Friday, October 14, 1949
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Submitted by marlowe on Thu, 2021-12-09 17:46.

Image is from 1949
Downtown in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs. Ref: WA-22589-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23107012

Submitted by simtang on Fri, 2021-12-10 03:02.

Thank you marlowe. The picture shows that the restaurant (red chamber restaurant) on the left was celebrating its expansion. Therefore the date of expansion is 1949. News reports in the 60s indicate it was already in financial difficulties in the 60s.