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Sunshine Susie

Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2020-10-03 10:59

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1931

The poster advertises ‘Sunshine Susie’, a movie showing at the Tai Ping Theatre over in Shek Tong Tsui. This British musical was released in 1931, dating the main photo of Queen's Road Central to the early 1930s.

Detail cropped from page 36 of the new Volume 4 of 'Old Hong Photos and The Tales They Tell'. The book will be available in November 2020. <Read more ...>

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Hong Kong 1930s, Repulse Bay Hotel and Beach

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Wed, 2020-09-30 14:27

Charles Gesner van der Voort (1916-1991) worked for Holland-China Trading Company (HCHC) in Shanghai; it also had offices in Hong Kong and Tientsin (Tianjin). One of its first directors, Mr. Willem Kien, worked in China from 1898. After HCHC was founded in 1903, he worked for the company in Hong Kong and Shanghai. In 1921, he left China and worked for the head office in Rotterdam, at Diergaardelaan 36, until 1948, when the company was obtained by Internatio. <Read more ...>

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1930

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Junk, Hong Kong 1930s

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Wed, 2020-09-30 14:06

Charles Gesner van der Voort (1916-1991) worked for Holland-China Trading Company (HCHC) in Shanghai; it also had offices in Hong Kong and Tientsin (Tianjin). One of its first directors, Mr. Willem Kien, worked in China from 1898. After HCHC was founded in 1903, he worked for the company in Hong Kong and Shanghai. In 1921, he left China and worked for the head office in Rotterdam, at Diergaardelaan 36, until 1948, when the company was obtained by Internatio. <Read more ...>

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1930

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1930s San Wai Camp

Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2020-09-26 14:48

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1935

See https://gwulo.com/node/51475 for the story behind this photo. <Read more ...>

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Map of San Wai

Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2020-09-26 14:48

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1939

Cropped from "Map 1945" at http://www.hkmaps.hk/mapviewer.html

(Though the map was published in 1945, its legend says it was last updated in 1939.) <Read more ...>

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Back of photo A413

Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2020-09-26 14:48

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1935

Note on back of this photo: https://gwulo.com/atom/37825 <Read more ...>

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Junks at Sai Wan Ho, Hong Kong, 1930s

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Sat, 2020-09-26 01:37

Charles Gesner van der Voort (1916-1991) worked at Holland-China Trading Company (HCHC), with offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tientsin (Tianjin), Rotterdam and London. At the start of the company, in 1903, Willem Kien (1877-1970) started to work for HCHC in Shanghai, later becoming director. In 1921 he left China and became director at the Rotterdam head office, at Diergaardelaan 36.

Willem Kien made this photo during a visit in Hong Kong.

Courtesy Kien family archives <Read more ...>

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1930

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1930s TST Signal Hill

Submitted by Klaus on Sat, 2020-09-19 03:22

Think that 1930 is a good estimate for this photo.

Left is Holt's Wharf, then Signal Hill with (I guess) Signal Hill Battery/Blackhead Fort. The tower has its cupola, so its definitely between 1928 and 1933. Can't see the lighthouse.

Right of the hill are houses, likely DeJongh family residence, and then buildings under construction: Lyemun Flats / Lyemun Buildings / Harbour View Hotel.

Any other suggestions are welcome. <Read more ...>

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1930

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A Day at the Races

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Wed, 2020-09-16 15:58

Philip Harding Klimanek (1883-1965) was born in the Czech Republic, at the time his place of birth was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. In ca. 1905 he started to work for Holland-China Trading Company, in Hong Kong.

In 1939, when Charles Gesner van der Voort arrived in Shanghai to work for the company, he was Charles' superior. In a letter home he wrote: "Played chess with Klimanek in the French Club" [translation Pieter Lommerse, the French Club was Le Cercle Sportif Français, a fashionable place to be in the 1930s and it still exists today]. <Read more ...>

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1933

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You keep me hangin' on

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Wed, 2020-09-16 00:24

Philip Harding Klimanek (1883-1965) was born in the Czech Republic, at the time his place of birth was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. In ca. 1905 he started to work for Holland-China Trading Company, in Hong Kong.

In 1939, when Charles Gesner van der Voort arrived in Shanghai to work for the company, he was Charles' superior. In a letter home he wrote: "Played chess with Klimanek in the French Club" [translation Pieter Lommerse, the French Club was Le Cercle Sportif Français, a fashionable place to be in the 1930s and it still exists today]. <Read more ...>

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1934

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