Showing posts with label Avenida do Dr. Oliveira Salazar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Avenida do Dr. Oliveira Salazar. Show all posts

Thursday, June 25, 2026

Hong Kong 73 - Yueh Hua (1974) - Avenida do Dr. Oliveira Salazar, Macau

This road isn't known by this name anymore - it has since been split into Avenida Doutor Mário Soares and Avenida da Amizade, I'm just not sure what year that happened. The section youv can see below is now the Avenida da Amizade part. Anyway, the group of friends decide to head to Macau for some gambling and end up losing all their money before pawning their watches and winning it all back again, and then some. I'm not convinced how much of the Macau scenes were actualy filmed there but this image below is one of the shots in the middle of the sequence. The silhouetted building in the distance is the Hotel Lisboa. For a comparison of the same view before the hotel was built, you can see this page (second image down showing a similar aspect).

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Asia-Pol Secret Service - Wang Yu (1966) - Avenida do Dr. Oliveira Salazar, Macau

I think only old-school Macau historians will recognise this road name because it was later split and turned into both the Avenida Doutor Mário Soares and Avenida da Amizade. I'm not sure why the name changed but perhaps someone who knows better is able to comment below. Anyway, originally the road ran along the seaward side of the newly reclaimed land of Porto Exterior. This is the state of affairs that can be seen below - essentially it connected the north of the peninsula with the southern section at Avenida da Praia Grande. On it's long, meandering route it passed the old hydrofoil terminal - the distant advertising road arch in the background of image 1 marks roughly where that was. The kink in the road that the car is driving around in images 1 and 2 is still obvious today and is where the "Artyzen Grand Lapa Macau" (澳門雅辰酒店) now stands. 

Images 3, 4 and 5 show the same road as it passes the bend at Praça de Ferreira do Amaral and its controversial (hence why it was removed and re-erected in Lisbon) statue. Note that this film was made before the construction of the Lisboa Hotel/Casino and so there is a fairly unrestricted view towards Guia lighthouse in the background (background right of image 4).

I believe the grey building in the background of image 4 & 5 was the "Liceu Nacional InFante D. Henriqueis" - a Portuguese-curriculum school that operated from the late 19th century all the waythrough to the handover. However, this building dated the 50s and was demolished in 2006.