When my grandma brought over a box of matchbooks from her travels last month, I found one from a Hong Kong restaurant called the Golden Crown.I'd never heard of it.With a Nathan Road address in Tsim Sha Tsui, it must have closed by the time I got to Hong Kong in the 90s. … [Read more...]
Where East is West
I found this ad for Japanese tourism in a 1981 magazine targeted to American airline employees.The guy in the photo really seems to be trying: dressing in yukata, staying at a Japanese inn, and reading Shogun (on my first couple of trips to Asia, I read James Clavell novels … [Read more...]
Window shopping in Hong Kong, 1959
I love this ad from 1959, advertising Hong Kong as a shopper's paradise.Apart from the obligatory faux Chinese brushstroke font, I'm struck by this brochure because it reminds me of Hong Kong's amazing history all while life on the mainland fell apart at this time.Just … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Rainbow’s End
Ah, another memoir of growing up in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. I just can't get enough.This week I read my 5th in this genre, Lauren St John's Rainbow's End (Scribner, 2007).St John grows up on a farm in rural Rhodesia, before the war in the late 1970s that would end white rule … [Read more...]
Shopping in Hong Kong, 1980
I love this 1980 Samsonite ad. The suitcase is not only dated, but so are many of the shopping treasures inside.It's so easy to forget that Made in Hong Kong used to be as prevalent as today's Made in China, especially for electronics. I'm sure my 12 year-old son wouldn't … [Read more...]
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