Sunday, January 5, 2025

Dallas - Victoria Principal (1985) - Mercury Street, Causeway Bay

The next episode (Season 8, Episode 22), Dead Ends, also has some Hong Kong scenes, the first of which is a view across to what was a large tenement building located on the corner of Electric Road and Gordon Road. This building has only recently been demolished (2013?) and two new developments ("The Hemispheres" and "Diva") have been built on the site. You can still see it in this old Streetmap imagery.

The large office building in the background (whose top is visible in the top of the first image) is the Citicorp Centre. This means that the camera was placed on Mercury Street looking north and the ramshackle market we see in the first few frames was later redeveloped and rehoused in the purpose-built Causeway Bay Market Building. We're barely on the cusp of Causeway Bay though as the boundary between Wanchai District (which contains Causeway bay) and Eastern District is nearby.

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