img 1026-inside a ferry to Cheung Chou if not Lantau Island 1964?

Sun, 11/03/2024 - 13:55
Observation deck at Kai Tek Airport 1960s
Observation deck at Kai Tek Airport 1960s, by JC
Date picture taken
1964 (year is approximate)

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Hi There,

I could not recall anything about Yaumati Ferries in the 1960's.

As for the ferry photo, something did not add up.  The environment seemed to be air-conditioned with tables and individual chairs.  That would be more likely some time in the 1970's when Yaumatai Ferries introduced the triple deckers.  Is there any clues at the back of the photo which might show when it was processed\printed?

T

Hello T:

Thanks for the interest of the 1960s photo that I posted. Possibly a 1968-1969 trip and definitately NOT a 1970s ferry ride. Perhaps it's the bigger ferry to Macau, not the ferry to Lantau Island or something like that? Don't have the original print in hands any more, it was glued onto one of those acid free black pages photo album.....

I take it back regarding the approximate date that this "ferry photo" was taken by one of the adults extended family member possibly Uncle M.M. if not my father-M.T. or my Mom, with a 35mm camera. The boy is my younger brother. My younger sister and I were in the photo taken on the observation deck at Kai Tak airport at the time. One more younger sister not in any of the photos posted so far. The family of six immigrated out of British Hong Kong by ship in August (1?), 1971 the day after a grade 10 typhoon hit which caused power outages all over the colony. The nervous yet calm eyes on the road, dark road without traffic lights; without street lights, without neon signs lights roads after a "farewell dinner party"...to his and one of my other uncle's home, small apartment to split up us four, to spend the last night in Hong Kong before boarding the S.S. President Wilson the next day to immigrate to "America". Have a feeling that the adults were using us kids to help them decide on which mean of transportation to use, to get out of Hong Kong before the " lease is up-'97"... I also remember spending an overnight trip sleeping in bunk beds in the bottom of a "ferry/ship" to Macau to see the Sun Yat San Hall and that Cathedral front wall sitting on top of hundred of stairs-way...Yes, we took the hour long hydrofoil ride back to Hong Kong from Macau instead of spending another night on the bottom of a "ferry" which took one night-2days to get to Macau from Hong Kong... Don't remember which pier to use at the time because we just hold tight on the hand of the adult relative's and go where ever they took us out on a weekend outing/recreations, so called "educational field trips" here in America!