I've always been fascinated by the Sikh community in Hong Kong.In this old postcard (and by old, I'm talking 100 years), these Sikh policemen are standing over a couple of criminals who look like they've seen better days.A long time ago I read how the British employed … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man
The grass is always greener. People always want what they don't have, right?In Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man (Little, Brown, 2010), literary agent Bill Clegg seems to have it all: a rise so quickly through the New York literary world that by the age of 30 he opens his … [Read more...]
Approaching Kai Tak
The scene in this postcard was so familiar to me when I lived in Hong Kong.The round-about, the little park, the double-decker buses. I remember Kai Tak from the 1990s, but this postcard was printed in the 1950s, even before my mom and her family first traveled … [Read more...]
The Peak Hotel, Hong Kong
A couple months ago when I was looking into the origins of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels Limited, I came across one of their holdings I hadn't heard of before--the Peak Hotel.How had I missed this one?Examining this postcard, I can't see where one building ends and … [Read more...]
Remembering nine years later
As the world remembers the 9/11 tragedy today, I think back to those two hours on that Tuesday morning nine years ago when I couldn't find my brother.He worked in the building in the middle of this photo, the one standing behind the shorter building with a similar pointed … [Read more...]
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