I recently found this South African Airways ad in a magazine from 1981 at my grandma's house.South African Airways was the only airline back then to fly non-stop between New York and Johannesburg. (My grandparents traveled there a decade earlier and flew KLM via … [Read more...]
Book of the week–The Last Resort
This week I read another memoir about Zimbabwe. It's my fourth and I can't get enough.In The Last Resort (Crown, 2009), travel writer Douglas Rogers chronicles his parents' downward spiral as life in Zimbabwe falls apart.Like Peter Godwin's memoir, When the Crocodile Eats … [Read more...]
Tabasco ad, 1958
In 1958, Ludwig Bemelmans, the author of the beloved Madeline children's books, illustrated this ad for Tabasco sauce--in a Hong Kong setting.This colonial dinner, complete with paper lanterns, a harbor view, and Chinese servants, looks like something from The World of Suzy … [Read more...]
Godown, part deux
I couldn't resist.I found this 1972 ad for the Godown Bistro's sister restaurant--the Godown Restaurant, across the Harbor in Hong Kong's Central district.The ad is just as colonial as the Bistro's:It has the same intimate, friendly atmosphere and the waitresses are … [Read more...]
Remembering Kai Tak, 1925 – 1998
Twelve years ago last week, Hong Kong's legendary Kai Tak Aiport closed. The infamous runway 13 ran jutted into the harbor, and to help navigate tricky landings, pilots used a red and white checkerboard etched into a nearby mountain as their cue to turn 47 degrees in the final … [Read more...]
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