[sharing] Hong Kong Old Pictures In 1960s

60s 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

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

Chinese Restaurant....dim sum in bamboo cases

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

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

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

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

Candies....preserved olives, plums, meat

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

Another herbal medicine shop

Tea shop

Tea shop

A dry goods store with dried fishes hanging in front

Goodies....sweets and cookies Chinese style

Incense sticks

Incense sticks and 'netherworld money' store

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

Bean sprouts and tofu shop

Candle stands, urns for burning incense

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

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

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...

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

A blind musician couple...

noodle shop

Nathan Road in former time

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

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

View from the Peak

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