Signs in view on the right from far to near:
新妙機 LEE FAT
新新洋服
廣安專造象牙 KWONG ON Ivory Factory
華芳照相 A. FONG Photographer Studio
達華洋服
奇仙那絲綢行 KRISHINA SILK STORE
美藝男女理髮 MEE NGAI Ladies & Gentlemen Hair Dressing Saloon
何盈光牙醫
安樂園 On Lok Yuen Cafeteria
Photo Credit: Jacob Blauuw Kooters
Source: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-jbk-0516.html
Date picture taken
1930s
Shows place(s)
Comments
Re: Photo
When compared with Photo 1 and Photo 2 from 1935, I think the main photo was taken a few years earlier. On the left one can see "Ltd" in the signage above the store facing Queen's Road Central. The signage appears to belong to the Yee Sang Fat Co. Ltd..
The full name of the store can be viewed here but on the side facing Wyndham Street.
Thank you moddsey! I knew I…
Thank you moddsey! I knew I would get valuable insights from Gwulo members like you. This junction has been a popular spot for photographers for almost a century, hasn't it?
Re: Kooters
Yes, a popular junction for taking photographs. The photographs recently posted show that Kooters had taken them at least on two separate occasions and a couple of years apart. I guess he was traveling through the Orient?
His bio at the University…
His bio at the University Library of Bergen mentions that "Jacob Blaauw Kooter (1903-1949) took photographs from the age of 10-12 and later became a journalist, photographer and businessman. He spent most of his adult life in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Canton (Guangzhou) in China, where he worked from the late 1920s. He returned to his hometown of Bergen in 1946 after several years as a Japanese prisoner of war in Hong Kong and Shanghai."
His sister Liv Kooter Lauhn was also a journalist and her photo collection is open to the public at the same library. A few photos, like this one, were probably taken when she visited her brother in 1938 but they do not have details of location and date.