Friday, January 10, 2014

I Spy (TV Series) - Bill Cosby (1965) - Shanghai Street,

Once again many thanks to my good friend Thomas for providing yet another identification from obscure clues. This one is a brief glimpse of Shanghai Street in the same car driving scene from Danny was a Million Laughs.

I may have a match for this one. The business sign painted on the last pillar was 人和悅﹐ a famous rice liquor maker & retailer. I've found another blog (http://woofertennews.blogspot.hk/2012/12/blog-post_25.html) in Chinese mentioning some history of a small section of Shanghai Street. According to the blog entry 人和悅 somehow took over of number 400 Shanghai Street in the mid to late 1960's. That would seem to match the time frame of the series.
But before I forget, here is the screen grab.


In case you can't quite see it the 人和悅 signpost is on the red column four from the front, the last character is partially obscured. So what does this place look like now? Well, as you may be able to guess the columned shophouses here have long gone, although other parts of Shanghai Street still retain a nice few examples.

The buildings on the right were all replaced soon after this was filmed and all the current buildings at this section (up to Hamilton Street on the right)

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