Sunday, July 16, 2023

We Owe It to Our Children - Cheung Wood-yau (1955) - Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui

In a brief sequence we see the couple write a letter and then head to the local post box to post it. There's a big clue to the location of this post box in the background. The old building with the "Drugs" sign on it was located in an old block between Humphrey's Avenue and Cameron Road. The "Drugs" sign related to the A.S. Watson's Kowloon Dispensary that was based in the building at the time. This block was demolished circa 1958, just a few years after the film was made, and replaced by two separate buildings: Majestic House and Manson House. On the north side of Cameron Road is another, taller building we'll cover in the next post. The post box was most likely located on the corner of Nathan Road and Haiphong Road right in front of where the A1 exit for the MTR is. No doubt the exit is why it was removed because there's nothing there now. 

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