On Lan Street Central

Mon, 09/22/2014 - 23:43
Date picture taken
1970

Comments

Henry Ching writes:

I think this is On Lan Street in Central looking west towards the old South China Morning Post building.

Henry, I was on Kowloon side when living there.Wandering around taking photos one day.The Chinese communist flags are out as they were in my shot of Mody Rd so its somewhere in that area...maybe Minden Ave.

Regards Mike

Hi Mike,

I think the date should be 1970, because the communist banner says it was celebrating the 21st anniversary of the people's republic.  Since they started off in 1949 that would make this photo 1970.

breskvar 

Yes you are right Henry

My father set up my Grandfather's Branch ( Chung Hing Hong of Peiping now Beijing) here in Hong Kong at 15 On lan Street in 1946 until the old building was bought by the next door owner and demolished in 1972.

Very nostalgic to see these pix though I have a lot of much older pix in my family album. 

It's a shame that those buildings with the rounded balconies on the photo's far left (On Lan St. x Zetland St.) were demolished about 2 years ago.  They were probably the last remaining (and elegant) residential walk-ups in that part of Central.

This is a 1946 pic of my mum and my eldest sister at 15 On Lan Street

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151256771463200&set=a.10151256770748200.516948.614578199&type=3&theater

Based on the banner on the right showing the words "The 21st Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China", I totally agree with breskvar that the photo was taken in 1970. To be even more precise, it was taken between late September and early October 1970.