Love in Hong Kong - Pauline Teutscher (1983) - Fuk Wah Street, Sham Shui Po

One of the locations that the gang try and capture their newspaper-circulation-stimulating shots is on Fuk Wah Street just next to the junction with Tai Po Road. This area looks pretty much the same today as it did then. Looking at the bottom image, I'd say they managed to grab the attention of quite a few passers-by. It's not surprising given the scene involves a girl getting out of the car and flashing everyone.

Tai Po Road Electrical Substation on the right behind the "P" sign

Love in Hong Kong - Pauline Teutscher (1983) - Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui

In some last ditch attempts to grab some photos that might boost circulation (in more ways than one), the girls board a bus on Nathan Road and try to get some lewd photos on the top deck. The bus stop is the one located just up the road from the A1 exit of the MTR. The stone wall behind was knocked down to make way for the "Park Lane Shopping Boulevard" and the soon-to-be-rebuilt Kowloon Mosque.

Love in Hong Kong - Pauline Teutscher (1983) - Ocean Park, Wong Chuk Hang

The gang head off for a day of shenanigans at Ocean Park. Checkout the original entrance.

Pacific Pier is still around

WTF is he doing there!!??

Love in Hong Kong - Pauline Teutscher (1983) - Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong

After getting into his car at the Hong Kong Club, he is mysteriously transported back up Connaught Road Central.

Love in Hong Kong - Pauline Teutscher (1983) - Chater Road and surrounds

Here's a few shots of one of the actors walking to his car, parked in front of the Hong Kong Club, but he takes a rather roundabout way of getting there. He starts off near the Supreme Court building with the Bank of China Building in the background.

Next up we see him, as expected, walking through the entrance to Chater Garden.

But then, after Chater Garden, we see him now to the north of the Supreme Court Building and picking up his car in front of the old Hong Kong Club - which was knocked down soon after this film was made.

Speaking of the old Hong Kong Club, note the archways of the club's front portico in the background. As far as I am aware, these arches are the only surviving bits of the old building, and they are now located inside, on the first floor above the main entrance of the current club building. Here's a snap I took a few weeks ago (no, I'm not a member, they would never accept riff raff like me as one).

Love in Hong Kong - Pauline Teutscher (1983) - Furama Hotel, Central

One of the scenes is set in the Furama Hotel. I have no idea if the interior used was the hotel but we are treated to a shot of the exterior. Neither of these buildings exists anymore because Hutchison House next door was demolished circa 2020 - its even taller replacement is already nearing completion (as of May 2023). AIA Central now stands where the Furama was.

Love in Hong Kong - Pauline Teutscher (1983) - Shum Wan Pier Drive and the Jumbo

I'm all for a bit of floating restaurant nostalgia now that all but one have now gone (I recently read that a company has decided to buy the Tai Pak and renovate and reopen sometime.We shall see). Here is a shot of the car arriving at the restaurant piers before the Aberdeen Marina Club was even built. I suspect the blue hoardings in the background of the first couple of images were up to protect the site of where the club's Marina Office Tower/carpark was being built.

Love in Hong Kong - Pauline Teutscher (1983) - Silver Cape Road, Clearwater Bay

A brief scene involving the car that was filmed not far from Julia's house in Silverstrand Garden. In fact, you can see Silverstrand Garden in the background of the second image. It's the row of grey houses lower down the cliff. The terrace of white houses behind and above it is Villa Sandoz. You can also just make out the previously mentioned carpark pavilion, but it's a bit blurry.
 

Love in Hong Kong - Pauline Teutscher (1983) - Cornwall Avenue, Tsim Sha Tsui

Here's a place you will have a hard job locating on a modern map of TST. This is the view along Cornwall Avenue looking north (well, strictly speaking,it would be northwest because that's the direction the road used to lie on). There is a glimpse of the former path Cornwall Avenue used to take on modern maps if you look on the west side of the K11 Masterpiece in TST. The diagonal line to the northwest made by that side of the mall was dictated solely by the existence of Cornwall Avenue, and even though the mall didn't build over the road per se, it was included in the redevelopment and is now a nameless, covered, pedestrianised pathway. You can see the same view in this photo over on Gwulo.com, albeit a decade earlier.

Love in Hong Kong - Pauline Teutscher (1983) - Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui

After exiting Cheong Wan Road,the car is filmed driving south down Sailsbury Road at its start point next to the Hung Hom railway station and Cross harbour Tunnel Road.

Love in Hong Kong - Pauline Teutscher (1983) - Cheong Wan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui

Next up is a brief shot of our characters driving their car over Cheong Wan Road. This is the small road that connects Austin Road with the railway station at Hung Hom but runs directly over the toll booths for the Central Harbour Tunnel.

Love in Hong Kong - Pauline Teutscher (1983) - Lung Cheung Road Lookout, Kowloon

When exiting the Tiger Balm Gardens it appears our characters have a fair distance to walk to where they parked the car because the next shot shows them getting into their car in the carpark at Lung Cheung Road Lookout.

Love in Hong Kong - Pauline Teutscher (1983) - Tiger Balm Gardens, Tai Hang

The gang head out to the Tiger Balm Gardens for a day out. As a bit of a Tiger Balm Gardens fan, I can see that the fact that there are scenes around the large mausoleums and "Double Tenth" gate means the rear section of the garden had yet to be sold and redeveloped into Ronsdale Gardens. This was the first section of the gardens to be sold to developers following some in-fighting between the various heirs to the Tiger Balm empire.

The first two images show the old driveway and entrance to the estate. These are still around and look the same, although the front gate is now locked and no longer used.

Everything you can see in the next four images has gone and the space it occupied now forms the solid base for the large podium built for "The Legend".

Here's a few general shots of the old garden. The tiger in the top image below has been saved and is now located outside the remaining walls of the garden. The pagoda was destroyed as far as I know but a replica has been constructed in the Haw Par ancestral village (Zhongchuan) in Fujian province. 

In the next image you can see another relic from the garden that was also saved: it's the cartoon-style tiger with outstretched arms. He is also now on display outside the main entrance to the mansion. Or at least he was when I visited in November 2021.

These following images all show the area I mentioned earlier. It was the rear section of the garden that was sold to a developer and turned into Ronsdale Gardens and included the twin mausoleums (first two images below), and the staircase with the Double Tenth gate and the Haw Par parents memorial pagoda at the top of the steps - both these items contained Kuomintang/Nationalist imagery that would not be tolerated in today's Hong Kong.