Mum's "Hong Kong Color Slide Service" Collection.
This week's newsletter is a guest post by regular contributor GW:
Introduction
My Mum recently rediscovered a set of slides she’d bought in Hong Kong in about 1986. They’ve been digitized and are posted below in order of the reference codes printed on their frames with their titles. The accompanying comments aim to establish each slide’s “where” and “when”. Many of the “where’s” are obvious, but the “when’s” less so. Dates without a quoted source come from elsewhere on Gwulo.
The Slides
1. XB3, Rickshaws In The Street.
I guess tourists were the main buyers of slides like these, so a set would have to include a pic of that favourite Hong Kong stereotype, the rickshaw, even though they’d ceased being used as a form of transport well before the 1980’s. If I remember correctly, the only ones still around in the mid-80’s were parked outside the Star Ferry, Hong Kong side and, for a fee, were available for a short ride around the concourse area and a photo.
This pic was taken on Connaught Road, Central. In the background, from right to left, are the 2nd GPO Building (1911-1976), Union/Swire House (completed 1962) and St. George’s Building (demolished 1966). That gives a preliminary date range for the photo of 1962 to 1966.
The hoardings on the left are where Queen’s Building stood until replaced by the Mandarin Hotel. The Mandarins’ soft opening was on 1 September 1963, but it obviously wasn’t near completion when this photo was taken, meaning it was probably taken in 1962 or early 1963.
2. XB6, Des Voeux Road, Central.
It’s the junction of Des Voeux Road with Pedder Street left, Chater Road right, and was probably taken from the
