Saturday, August 8, 2015
Soldier, Soldier - Robson Green (1992) - Tsim Sha Tsui Harbourfront, Kowloon
In case anyone wondered what the TST harbourfront looked like before the Avenue of Stars came along and ruined it all, here is a quick glimpse. For your information it was just the same except with less tat and fewer people crouched on the floor.
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Yep, there really wasn't much there back in the day, just a very plain promenade that let the view do all the talking. There used to be (perhaps still is -- it was still there about 4-5 years ago) a very small park / garden, either where there's a bridge connecting the Avenue of Stars to the InterContinental hotel, or perhaps where the promenade met the New World Centre.
At one side of the park was a great big (~four foot tall) hunk of granite, the top of which was carved to resemble a Tissot Rock Watch (http://www.watchtime.com/watches/images_db/big/s100_tissot-26.10rockw1985.jpg). The sculpture actually had a working clock movement inset in it. I wonder where that ended up, or how long it lasted?
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