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Robert Ho Tung House, Hong Kong

Submitted by Unknown user (not verified) on Fri, 2011-02-18 15:34

This building, labeled "Robert Ho Tung House", is designed in the Streamline Modernist style. Does anyone know where it is or was located? Can anyone confirm it was a house of Robert Ho Tung?

1930s Airlie Hotel

Submitted by Unknown user (not verified) on Tue, 2011-02-15 22:20
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1936
Places shown in this photo: 
Airlie / Chardhaven / Baron's Court / ??? / Star Hotel [????-????]

Wallace Harper advert-1938

Submitted by IDJ on Mon, 2011-02-14 00:37
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1938

A car familiar to anyone brought up in the UK in the 1940s and 50s

Far East Motors advert-1938

Submitted by IDJ on Mon, 2011-02-14 00:33
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1938
Places shown in this photo: 
Far East Motors, Nathan Road [????-????]

The Studebaker on the list appears to have a extremely high mileage for a car only 10 years old in Hong Kong in the 1930s. No wonder it is the cheapest.

Studebaker Pierce Arrow advert

Submitted by IDJ on Mon, 2011-02-14 00:25
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1930

An example of how diverse were the products some well-known companies in Hong Kong got involved with. I wonder who the "Dealers of High Standing" referred to in the advert were.

Coal Eggs

Submitted by IDJ on Mon, 2011-01-24 18:02
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1930

No C.O.D. available from this coal supplier

It's cold, time to buy some coal-1935

Submitted by IDJ on Wed, 2011-01-19 22:12
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1935

Field Cottage-Kai Tak-1930

Submitted by IDJ on Mon, 2011-01-17 02:51
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1930
Places shown in this photo: 
Kai Tak Airfield / Airport [????- ]

Confirmation of the "Field Cottage" name

1930s Kai Tak hangar fire

Submitted by IDJ on Sun, 2011-01-16 04:53
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1930
Places shown in this photo: 
Kai Tak Airfield / Airport [????- ]

Bamboo matshed Hangar fires were common before the permanent steel hangar was built for the RAF at the eastern end of the airport.

1936 Nathan Road

Submitted by David on Sun, 2011-01-09 03:46
Image (external): 
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View north along Nathan Road taken from near the Peninsula Hotel.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1936
Places shown in this photo: 
Airlie / Chardhaven / Baron's Court / ??? / Star Hotel [????-????]
Rose Hotel [????-c.1958]
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