Nathan Road from Jordan Road. The street on the right should be Nanking Street. Heung Hoi Taylor was located at 304, Nathan Road. Clover Hotel was 380, Nathan Road (Astor Plaza).
An interesting spot is on the left in the shade (on maximum zoom): Green Spot as mentioned here.
Amoy Canning became the sole agent of Green Spot from 1960. [1a] So this postdates the photo towards the 60s. [1b] We could zoom in and see the shop name partly (淘)化大同公司, in red, on the left of 'Green Spot'.
And in fact it is a continuation of the scene on the 1950s View north along Nathan Road of gwulo on the time axis. [2] Some businesses still remain around this busy junction, as on opposite side of Nathan Road : some Chinese doctor on 1/F, a Rattanware shop. More shops for radios/electric appliances have popped up.
Resources :
1a. Amoy Canning was covered in the Hong Kong Memory project (e.g. period 1950s-70s). Including oral history as few long-time employees, transcribed in its website bilingually.
1b. authorized bottler 1958; authorized dealer 1960
2. gwulo panorama view photo of the Nathan-Jordan junction in early 1950s (link)
Such panaroma photo is actually a good stockpile richly loaded with historical places/organisations/people and their intersections !
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Nathan Road from Jordan Road.
Nathan Road from Jordan Road. The street on the right should be Nanking Street. Heung Hoi Taylor was located at 304, Nathan Road. Clover Hotel was 380, Nathan Road (Astor Plaza).
An interesting spot is on the left in the shade (on maximum zoom): Green Spot as mentioned here.
Thanks for finding the
Thanks for finding the location for this one.
The Astor Plaza was the next generation of building at #380, so I've made a new Place for the Clover Hotel.
from the 50's to 60's
Amoy Canning became the sole agent of Green Spot from 1960. [1a] So this postdates the photo towards the 60s. [1b] We could zoom in and see the shop name partly (淘)化大同公司, in red, on the left of 'Green Spot'.
And in fact it is a continuation of the scene on the 1950s View north along Nathan Road of gwulo on the time axis. [2] Some businesses still remain around this busy junction, as on opposite side of Nathan Road : some Chinese doctor on 1/F, a Rattanware shop. More shops for radios/electric appliances have popped up.
Resources :
1a. Amoy Canning was covered in the Hong Kong Memory project (e.g. period 1950s-70s). Including oral history as few long-time employees, transcribed in its website bilingually.
1b. authorized bottler 1958; authorized dealer 1960
2. gwulo panorama view photo of the Nathan-Jordan junction in early 1950s (link)
Such panaroma photo is actually a good stockpile richly loaded with historical places/organisations/people and their intersections !