Old Department Stores in Hong Kong

This started on the thread about the China Emporium. There were comments from tngan, Andrew, and vanessa:

tngan:

Hi there,

I do not have any recollection of roaming through the floors of this department store.  I do have fond memory of wandering in the old Wing On main store.

Anyway, shall we make a list of all those local old Department Stores?  We had had the Dragon Seed in another thread, but I could name another two:

-  Shui Hing 瑞興

-  Jim Fair  占飛

I could not recall when did Shui Hing closed its last store in Tsimshatui, but it should be a bit more than 10 years ago.  Shui Hing used to have a store in Central/Sheung Wan.

As for Jim Fair, they use to have two stores.  One of them was very close to the Central Market, on Des Voeux Road.   The other was on Nathan Road & Kamsu Street.  The building is still there.

Best Regards,

T

Andrew:

Jam Fair Dept Store

I have recently posted an old tourist slide on Flickr which shows Des Voeux Road and the Jam Fair Dept Store : http://flic.kr/p/aJzvEa.

Andrew

vanessa:

other dept stores

sincere's - argyle and connaught , whiteaway's - nathan and connaught, lane crawford - nathan and des voeux, mei mei - top end nathan.

japanese stores - daimaru - causeway bay, tamaya - central, western end, isetan-

ither stores - da da nathan/prince edward, china products argyle and hennessy

probably doesnt count as a department store but there was evergreen- once on th corner of austin/nathan later moved to jordan, they imported plastics from the states (!) and is where one of my friend's parents met back in the 50s.  also shui hing had a small store in mongkok on nathan between argyle and prince edward in one of the old 3 storey buildings.

i was a veteran shopaholic and window browser wonsuponatime, especially kowloon side :)