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60 s HONG KONG OLD PICTURES

60 s HONG KONG OLD PICTURES. The policemen in shorts...[at the Peak]. Blind erhu musician beggar and his guide. Hong Kong Club [opposite to Prince's Building @ statue square] before rebuild . Water chesnuts for 10 cents. Old former street.

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60 s HONG KONG OLD PICTURES

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  1. 60s HONG KONG OLD PICTURES

  2. The policemen in shorts...[at the Peak]

  3. Blind erhu musician beggar and his guide

  4. Hong Kong Club [opposite to Prince's Building @ statue square] before rebuild 

  5. Water chesnuts for 10 cents

  6. Old former street

  7. Typical 4-storey post war buildings with the laundry on bamboo sticks...

  8. Chinese Restaurant....dim sum in bamboo cases

  9. US President's Liner and a wah-la-wah-la in front...[Ocean Terminal berth]

  10. A wah-la-wah-la in front of the Star Ferry terminal

  11. Chinese herbal medicine shop with the unlabeled drawers for the various herbs

  12. Recently the PRC government has made this 'leung-cha'  'cooling tea' a heritage item of HK

  13. Candies....preserved olives, plums, meat

  14. Junks and a barge with a crane with North Point in the background

  15. Another herbal medicine shop

  16. Tea shop

  17. Tea shop 

  18. A dry goods store with dried fishes hanging in front

  19. Goodies....sweets and cookies Chinese style

  20. Incense sticks

  21. Incense sticks and 'netherworld money' store

  22. At the end of the day she'd carry the two baskets with a bamboo pole...

  23. Bean sprouts and tofu shop

  24. Candle stands, urns for burning incense

  25. pickles...(L-R) ginger slices, olives (I think), papaya, garlic and ginger chunks

  26. fruit store....Wow, look at the prices!!!

  27. Sugar cane juice store. Usually the other half is the CHN medicinal tea 'leung-cha' store. In the 50s, this is where one can go pay and watch TV...

  28. Children at play. These are usually children of the streetside stores ...

  29. A blind musician couple...

  30. noodle shop

  31. Nathan Road in former time

  32. Typical street scene above Central. The girl in her school uniform is minding the merchandise while trying to study. The lady on the right with the pigtail is an 'amah', a servant

  33. Headquarter of the colonial masters...Hong Kong Club, see City Hall at the back

  34. View from the Peak

  35. Looking east towards Causeway Bay with the typhoon shelter on the left. The white neon sign is the Daimaru Dept Store on Patterson St. The first JPN dept store in HK

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