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1950s Sun Ya Hotel, Nathan Road, Mong Kok

Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2007-10-15 13:47
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1950
Places shown in this photo: 
Ritz Theatre / 麗斯戲院 [1953-1972]
Paramount Nightclub [????-????]
Sun Ya Hotel [c.1955-1975]
King Wah restaurant, Nathan Road [????-????]

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Taken in the 1950s looking northbound along Nathan Road. Opposite the Sun Ya Hotel is the Paramount Nightclub. Looks like the Hotel is now the HSBC Mong Kok Branch.

1950s Kowloon Star Ferry and APL General Gordon

Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2007-10-09 21:58
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1950
Places shown in this photo: 
Godown / shops near Star Ferry [1923-1963]
Customs Office - Kowloon [????- ]
Star Ferry Terminal, TST (previous generation) [1907-c.1957]
Railway from KCR terminus to Kowloon Wharves [c.1934-c.1956]

Received via email:

Postcard from the late 1940s or early 1950s. Not the President Wilson but the American President Liner the General Gordon.

1950s Repulse Bay

Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2007-10-08 14:22
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1950
Received by email

1953 Nighttime view of harbour from TST

Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2007-10-03 11:34
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1953

Photo received via Email. The buildings are all lit up as part of the celebrations for Queen Elizabeth II's coronation.

1950s Wanchai

Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2007-09-06 17:21
Received via email. Sender notes it was taken in the 1950s, but I wonder if it was taken a little earlier, in the late 1940s. Top-right you can still see the masts of a ship that was sunk in the harbour during the war. Does anyone know when the last of these was cleared?

1950s Wanchai

Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2007-09-06 17:16
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1950
Places shown in this photo: 
Tung Tak Pawn Shop, at Marsh & Hennessy [????- ]

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1950s Wanchai

Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2007-09-06 17:15
Marked-up copy of previous image, courtesy of reader T.

Shek Kip Mei after the fire, 1953

Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2007-07-27 09:34

Photo courtesy of reader Moddsey.

Shek Kip Mei after the fire, 1953

Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2007-07-27 09:33
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1953

Photo courtesy of reader Moddsey.

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