Showing posts with label Wu Nam Street. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wu Nam Street. Show all posts
Friday, December 8, 2023
Desperate Mission - Germán Cobos (1965) - Aberdeen Harbour
Z-55 escapes in the stolen boat at Paterson Street and heads around to Aberdeen Harbour. We get some shots of the western approach before the breakwater was constructed (I think they put it in some time in the late 1960s). He gets back on land near the old floating restaurant pontoons (last image) on Wu Nam Street.
Friday, April 7, 2017
Weiße Fracht für Hongkong - Dietmar Schönherr (1963) - Aberdeen, Hong Kong
After pinching the drugs and killing his accomplice, the bad guy (played by Horst Frank) heads off to meet his girlfriend at the Aberdeen waterfront next to the restaurant piers. In the top picture you can see the Tai Pak pier gate at the back right which means the actress (or do I have to call everyone "actors" these days to be PC?) has Aberdeen Main Road to her back.
We've seen this same area on lots of occasions on this blog so you should know by now that it is now where the bus terminus is situated.
We've seen this same area on lots of occasions on this blog so you should know by now that it is now where the bus terminus is situated.
Sunday, March 5, 2017
Shirley's World (TV Series) - Shirley MacLaine (1972) - Aberdeen Harbour, Aberdeen
Back to Aberdeen for this next post, but this time we are over at the old restaurant pontoons by the old town. Regular readers of these blog posts will know the reclamation of the waterfront filled in most of this area and it is now where the main bus terminus stands along Wu Nam Street.
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold - Tamara Dobson (1975) - Wu Nam Street, Aberdeen
Just around the corner from Tung Sing Road is Wu Nam Street. Now it's the location for the main Aberdeen bus terminus, but before all the reclamation was done it was right on the waterfront and was the original location of the boarding point to get to the floating restaurants.
That's Wu Nam Street on the right hand side of the screen captures. The block on the far right (numbered 6-11 on various maps) is still around. The road has been extended slightly since 1975. An additional block was constructed on the far end of the current one meaning that Wu Nam Streets curve in Cheng Tu Road had to be extended slightly. The steps down to the water and the water front itself of course are long gone and the area you see above now carries, amongst other things, the Wu Nam Street public toilets! Below is a capture from Streetview which includes the area shown above. The original building previously mentioned is located at the far end of the row of buildings on the right (with two green minibuses right in front).
In addition to Wu Nam Street, we also get a sneak peek up Cheng Tu Road (not sure why the Mandarin pronunciation of the street names is used here, but there you go) in the shot below.
There is pretty much nothing recognisable today other than the buildings hidden by the truck. It looks like a single block but is actually two buildings sitting side-by-side (note the slight change in window shape). Those two blocks are 210 & 212 Aberdeen Main Road and one can still be seen (pink) is the Streetview below at the far end of the road (to the left of the bus).
That's Wu Nam Street on the right hand side of the screen captures. The block on the far right (numbered 6-11 on various maps) is still around. The road has been extended slightly since 1975. An additional block was constructed on the far end of the current one meaning that Wu Nam Streets curve in Cheng Tu Road had to be extended slightly. The steps down to the water and the water front itself of course are long gone and the area you see above now carries, amongst other things, the Wu Nam Street public toilets! Below is a capture from Streetview which includes the area shown above. The original building previously mentioned is located at the far end of the row of buildings on the right (with two green minibuses right in front).
In addition to Wu Nam Street, we also get a sneak peek up Cheng Tu Road (not sure why the Mandarin pronunciation of the street names is used here, but there you go) in the shot below.
There is pretty much nothing recognisable today other than the buildings hidden by the truck. It looks like a single block but is actually two buildings sitting side-by-side (note the slight change in window shape). Those two blocks are 210 & 212 Aberdeen Main Road and one can still be seen (pink) is the Streetview below at the far end of the road (to the left of the bus).
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Flatfoot in Hong Kong - Bud Spencer (1975) - Aberdeen Harbour, Hong Kong
Here's one that is pretty unrecognisable these days - largely thanks to the impressive amount of reclamation that has gone into the area in the last 30 years.
After we left Rizzo, last seen in Wanchai on the back of a pedicab, somehow he manages to peddle completely around to the other side of the island and stop off at the old Tai Pak Floating Restaurant ferry pier. Now remember this film was made in 1975, a whole year before the newly launched Jumbo would open, and the Tai Pak and the Sea Palace were still the major floating restaurants in Aberdeen Harbour.
These days the small piers where you catch the shuttle ferries over to the Jumbo Kingdom are situated quite close to their destination on the waterfront at Shum Wan Pier Drive. In 1975 the piers were all the way over on the waterfront at Wu Nam Street. The area that used to house the old Tai Pak ferry pier now houses the Aberdeen Bus terminus.
The photo above shows Wu Nam Street as it was in 2009, courtesy of Streetview. The entrance into the bus terminus (behind the low green roof) is the approximate location of where the old Tai Pak pier (and others) used to be located.
Of course, a trip to Aberdeen wouldn't be complete without at least one view of the Tai Pak. In the background you can see the green hillock that houses the Aberdeen Seminary.
In the images below, Rizzo's destination is a floating mahjong den called the "Golden Moon". However, if you can read Chinese you should be able to tell that this structure is in fact some sort of ceremonial hall/temple for the fisherfolk.
After we left Rizzo, last seen in Wanchai on the back of a pedicab, somehow he manages to peddle completely around to the other side of the island and stop off at the old Tai Pak Floating Restaurant ferry pier. Now remember this film was made in 1975, a whole year before the newly launched Jumbo would open, and the Tai Pak and the Sea Palace were still the major floating restaurants in Aberdeen Harbour.
These days the small piers where you catch the shuttle ferries over to the Jumbo Kingdom are situated quite close to their destination on the waterfront at Shum Wan Pier Drive. In 1975 the piers were all the way over on the waterfront at Wu Nam Street. The area that used to house the old Tai Pak ferry pier now houses the Aberdeen Bus terminus.
The photo above shows Wu Nam Street as it was in 2009, courtesy of Streetview. The entrance into the bus terminus (behind the low green roof) is the approximate location of where the old Tai Pak pier (and others) used to be located.
Of course, a trip to Aberdeen wouldn't be complete without at least one view of the Tai Pak. In the background you can see the green hillock that houses the Aberdeen Seminary.
In the images below, Rizzo's destination is a floating mahjong den called the "Golden Moon". However, if you can read Chinese you should be able to tell that this structure is in fact some sort of ceremonial hall/temple for the fisherfolk.
In the last screenshot above you can see the old HK Electric power station. It was eventually decommissioned and moved to Lamma Island, and South Horizons (a large residential complex) was built on parts of the old site.
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