Shirley's World (TV Series) - Shirley MacLaine (1972) - Pilkem Street, Kwun Chung

Many thanks to Bunce for the identification of this formerly hard to find location from Shirley's World. It's from the Figuratively Speaking episode and is just a quick shot of Shirley out and about taking pictures. The slatted building on the left is Pilkem House, so this means we are looking north from somewhere close to the junction with Bowring Street (around where exit C2 of Jordan Station is these days). The angle makes me think Bowring Street is behind her though.

Shirley's World (TV Series) - Shirley MacLaine (1972) - Hennessy Road, Causeway Bay

A mystery location from Shirley's World cleared up again thanks to Thomas and Arthur. In Figuratively Speaking we see some sailors patronising the various shops in Hong Kong and one of them was the Wing Hung Photo Supply Company.

Thomas was able to read that this branch was in Causeway Bay, and Arthur was able to track down the exact address courtesy of an old advert on a Facebook page (at the bottom is a list of branches, the second one from the bottom is the Causeway Bay branch which has the address of Ground Floor, 452 Hennessy Road).

It actually looks as though the same building is still there, although it's hard to confirm. Anyway, the same space was occupied by a 3D-Gold shop back when the Google car did its rounds.

So a big thanks to both Thomas and Arthur for once again finding the needle in the haystack.

Shirley's World (TV Series) - Shirley MacLaine (1972) - Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Tsim Sha Tsui

We just saw it in the last post because Shirley's destination is the Wharf and Godown offices that used to line the waterfront in Tsim Sha Tsui. So far the place has popped up once before when we looked at Golden Needles a few years back. The rather nicely designed main building use to stand pretty much where Harbour City stands today.

Look carefully at the bottom picture and you can see where Ocean Terminal (in the background) is relative to the old building. You can still access this area along Gateway Boulevard, but of course these days the buildings are all part of the aforementioned Harbour City development and Ocean Terminal has also had the car park spiral exit/entry ramp built on the side.

Shirley's World (TV Series) - Shirley MacLaine (1972) - Ocean Terminal, Tsim Sha Tsui

Shirley's friend is being blackmailed by a gangster whose shipping office is located over in the old Kowloon dockyard. As she walks over there we catch a glimpse of it in the background from the vantage point of the open space at the end of Ocean Terminal. I have no idea what is here now but was certainly still a piece of open yard just a few years ago.

Shirley's World (TV Series) - Shirley MacLaine (1972) - Humphrey's Avenue, Tsim Sha Tsui

Speaking of bars as we just were, Shirley meets a girl in a bar and finds out she is being blackmailed by a local criminal. The bar was the Apollo Bar and in the following screenshot we are kindly given the address in Humphrey's Court at 6 - 6A Humphrey's Avenue in Tsim Sha Tsui. The building is still around even if the bar has long gone.

Shirley's World (TV Series) - Shirley MacLaine (1972) - Neon Bar signs

In the Figuratively Speaking episode of Shirley's World, Shirley's assignment is to document the shenanigans of the US Sailors on shore leave in Hong Kong. Cue lots of nightclub neon signs, so here are a few of them that I have been able to track down. Once again, as with the I Spy neon montage, we did a while ago Doug Price's FLICKR album of bar cards have proved invaluable so many thanks to Doug for sharing.

Let's start with the Suzie Wong Bar and Niteclub and the Seven Seas Bar.

The Suzie Wong Bar and Niteclub was seems to have had two locations although they overlap. One location was 99 -103 Hennessy Road, and then it seems to have shifted over a block to 101 - 105 Hennessy Road. The Seven Seas Bar remains a mystery as to exact address, but Doug also has a photo of the same place in brighter light suggesting the Seven Seas Bar was next door. Feel free to comment if you know the exact address or why the Suzie Wong place seemed to shift over.

Next up is the Liberty Bar, 146-148 Lockhart Road. This later version is not to be confused with an earlier same name place that can be seen in this photo, but if you see Doug's bar card you'll notice the same guitar and cowboy boot emblem that can be seen in the neon sign below. It looks like the building this was in is still around and located next to the walkway that leads to Wanchai MTR station.

The Cave and the Round Up Bar- both were at 20 Luard Road - again another identification courtesy of Doug's bar cards. The Cave was in the basement and the Round Up Disco was on the first floor (in Hong Kong this could also mean the ground floor so I'm not sure which it was).

Next up is the Pussy Cat Bar. This just happens to be one of the first cards in Doug's collection and it gives an address of 34 - 38 Lockhart Road. But even better is also one of Doug's pictures taken in 1970 that shows the same neon signs during the daytime. It looks like that address is now filled up by the Empire Hotel.

Finally we have the Mikado Night Club and Bar. Again, Doug has a card, although we can't see an address on it he has added a comment saying it was at 3 - 7 Fenwick Street. This screenshot must be looking south because on the far left you can see partial signs for the Diamond Kitchen and Playboy Club which were near the junction with Hennessy Road.

Anyway, once again a big thanks to Doug for sharing all his cards on FLICKR (plus the hundreds of other Hong Kong pictures he has put up there over the years).

Shirley's World (TV Series) - Shirley MacLaine (1972) - The Peninsula Hotel, Tsim Sha Tsui

Lots of screen shots from inside and outside the Peninsula Hotel.

Shirley's World (TV Series) - Shirley MacLaine (1972) - Canton Road, Kwun Chung

Back in the 1970's the area now occupied by the "Grand Austin" and "The Austin" residential developments - the stretch of Canton Road between Austin Road and Jordan Road - was a Government dockyard. The dockyards outer wall, running along Canton Road, appears to have been used by various businesses to advertise their premises in large painted characters.

The top picture below shows the wall looking north along Canton Road towards the junction with Jordan Road. Look carefully and you can see the Ferry Point Estate poking above the barbed wire by Shirley MacLaine's shoulder. Actually, the two other buildings seen at the back are also still around. The one with the large Phillips advert on it is Lee Shing Mansion on the corner of Wai Chung Street and Jordan Road.

This second picture appears to be advertising a business based at 41 Argyle Street in Mongkok. I'd be very interested in seeing any photos of this wall if anyone has one.

Thanks to Thomas for helping with this one and Paul Li (one of the world's top experts on Bruce Lee) for telling me the exact location.