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Everything tagged "1960s Hong Kong"

Kowloon Tong-Kai Tak lighting

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1965
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Living in Yau Yat Chuen or Kowloon Tong often entailed having a lighting system on the roof if your house was under the flight path into Kai Tak. Additionally every time a plane landed in darkeness its landing lights flooded the rooms on the higher floors with bright light as they skimmed over the rooftops.

Another Submarine built in Hong Kong

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1969

The builder of the first submarine must have been encouraged in his efforts to construct a second one and ship it to the United States. The various box-like structures on it are to protect vunerable parts while being freighted.

A "Yellow" submarine built in Hong Kong-1968

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1968
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The Beatles 'Yellow Submarine' song was popular in the era this ambitious project was taking shape in Hong Kong

Yangtze Gun Boat replica built in Hong Kong

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1965

The San Pablo was built at east Kowloon (Kwun Tong)? shipyards for the film The Sand Pebbles in the mid-1960s. A video of its construction and some of the filming around Hong Kong waters can be seen here

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Shatin Roadhouse-location aerial view 1964

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1964

This aerial view from 1964 shows two kinks in the road, one of which appears in the ground level image with the bridge. Probably the top one nearer the station. However in this image, reclamation has started alongside the roadhouse site

1961 Unknown Street

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1961
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1960s Nathan Road

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1960
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1960s Queen's Road

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1960
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1960 Mercury House

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