Where: Any ideas? The location isn't written on either the front or back of the postcard, but I'm hoping someone can recognise it. The conical hill in the background looks like the most obvious landmark - hopefully that will trigger someone's memory.
Maybe it wasn't even taken in Hong Kong, but fingers crossed it was.
UPDATE: Thanks to reader J, who has identified the location: <Read more ...>
A segment from a Crown Lands Office 1928 map of the Kai Tak area. Over time the layout in the triangle next to the airfield nullah seems to have had streets added. <Read more ...>
What: It's dragon boat racing time of year, and the focus of the photo is the two dragon boats in the foreground.
Who: Foreign dragon-boat teams are a recent invention, so the people in these dragon boats are Chinese. Unfortunately the photo isn't sharp enough to show whether or not the rowers still wear their hair in the queue style. That would have helped pinpoint the date.
If you look carefully, about half-way along each boat is a man standing up, dressed in white. They're the <Read more ...>
