Monday, December 4, 2023

Desperate Mission - Germán Cobos (1965) - Yet More Kwun Tong Road

The police still can't catch Agent Z55 so they send up a helicopter to help. The initial aerial images after the chopper takes off is of another part of Kwun Tong Road. The following is looking south from above the old "Garden Estate" (since redeveloped from the low-rise buildings you can see in the bottom left corner into a huge high rise estate). The building in the background with the ramps along the side was the old Kwun Tong bus depot. That site is now occupied by Millenium City 1. The two petrol stations lower centre frame (2nd image) were replaced by Ngau Tau Kok MTR station.

As the camera pans right, the 3rd image shows the old Grandeur Factory Building. This was still around until quite recently and was quite recognisable thanks to the model plane shop that occupied the ground floor called World Models Manufacturing Company and had two large model jet planes attached to the top of the first floor canopy. Anyway, it's now gone and has been replaced by "Boton Technology Innovation Tower".

Next up is a big mess of white.The building in front was called Mong's Industrial Building, but I don't know what the building behnd was called. That whole block now contains Ricky Centre, Nina Hotel Kowloon East and Kinox Centre.

The final image shows the building that sat on the corner of Hung To Road and Lai Yip Street, this was until last year (2022) the Tsui Wah Group Centre. Tsui Wah being a famous local restaurant company. It's now gone. But look next door and you can see the low-rise Lay Yip Street substation and next to it the still standing (for now) H.S. Chan Building at 4 Hung To Road.


Bus Depot and Petrol Stations 
Grandeur Factory Building
Mong's Industrial Building in front

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