Desperate Mission - Germán Cobos (1965) - Olympic Avenue, To Kwa Wan

Next up we see the vehicles heading down Olympic Avenue. It can be a bit laborious poring over a mid-60s, black and white aerial map of Hong Kong to find a specific bend in a road but sometimes it pays off. Had my Chinese been any better I may have been able to decipher the blurry red characters on the white building on the left, but as it is I did it the hard way.

Anyway, this is the corner of Olympic Avenue as it turns east onto Sung Wong Toi Road, just past the Sung Wong Toi Garden. The white building is marked on the older maps as a "seasoning factory", but a little digging turned up the name of the Tien Chu Chemical factory. The company is famous for its MSG products as well as other things. The part of the building we can see below was the cold storage facility at 72 Pak Tai Street, but the factory compound was massive (200,000 sq ft) and encompassed a whole block that has since been filled by the "Sky Tower"residential development.