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Shoeshine boy advertisement.jpg

Submitted by ACH on Fri, 2016-10-21 12:16

Applicants - if any - would probably have been aged 55 years of age or older!

This is the last time I saw the word 'boy' used in this way - I was so astonished to see it in the SCMP - I would guess it was in the mid 1990's - that I photo-copied it. Old timer Chinese friends can recall when they were summoned by their bosses this way as in "Boy, come here".

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