Old Macau in 1960 澳门

[Macanese]

well in Macau you can still see the flags of Republic of China(Taiwan) in the Sun Yat-sen memorial house. so I think Chiang Kai Shek's poster can be seen there too.

[MrJlin1982]

Wat een prachtige sfeerbeelden van een tijd die niet meer is, volgens mij is er erg veel hoogbouw bij gekomen wat, de tradionele portugese architectuur grotendeels heeft doen verdwijnen. Maar die hoogbouw heeft ook wel iets

[MichaelRogge]

@MrJlin1982 Bedankt. Ik zie en lees dat Macau zelfs Las Vegas overvleugeld heeft in monsterlijke paleizen van casino's!

[grayling1001]

These old film clips make me feel terribly nostalgic. I lived in HK in the early 1980s and visited Macau often. I remember the temple and the ruin of the cathedral, and the very laid back atmosphere with the Portuguese still there but the place pretty run-down. Went back to HK last year - wow, did I feel out of place - everything had changed.

[badsign1980]

look at the boat at the beg and youll see where we got the idea for portuguese spanish galleans, chinese where ahead of us 100 years in sea travelling in 15 century

[badsign1980]

i still bought those small red chinese bomb sticks made in macao during the 80s here in portugal its amazing how time and ppl are connected, those cigarettes where also to sale in shops, i guess we could have given better life maybe more buildings like hong kong but still they will have the streets and old houses and the ppl with diff taste and ways theres nothing like west meeting the east, camoens the 16 century poet was in macao in 16 century had a women called mya lin he wrote about her

[ernytamsaichi]

Tks a lot u give us memory

[soniong]

i really like how you put all the footage together n combine it wif such a wonderful piece of chinese music:D gd job!

[luckyowl249]

Very worthful material; thank you so much for sharing! Visited Hong Kong & Macau (loved that Chinese "Monaco" more) in 1993!

[wingklow]

During WW II the Japanese did not invade Macao because Macao belonged to Portugal. However, the suffering in China spilled over to Macao. At the border there was a Japanese check point, and thousands of people waited for permission to cross. While my mother and I waited on the Macao side, I heard loud and incessant screams coming from the Japanese military headquarters. Apparently someone was being tortured. I remember those screams to this day.

[takemebabynicky]

Thanks!

[lunpeterko]

我於六二年高中畢業後離開現居北美在去年返澳但覺面目大不相同.­

[TheRealRoof]

Ik kwam dit tegen op uitzending gemist denk ik , ik wilde graag weten van Meneer Rogge hoe u al die oude films digitaal heeft gemaakt.

Heeft u daarzelf de apparatuur voor of heeft u dat laten doen.

[MichaelRogge]

Hallo, ik laat al mijn films digitaliseren door Supersens in Amsterdam, die ook voor verschillende musea werken. Ik heb nu een drie honderd clips via hun digitaliseren in elkaar geknutseld.

[Gwapogi10]

I dont like old macau

[9966339]

本人就是該年代的澳門人,睇番以前啲生活情景,實在令人感嘆唏噓­,因為已離開左幾十年,實在好懷念昔日的澳門,多謝從前拍呢段片­嘅人,更多謝版主的造福.

[PGLY1314]

幾可愛^^

[mikey197]

i'm not from that time, but i also got the feeling the old Macao have a very unique taste and style and is slowly fading away. I love old buildings~~

[Ripley44mag]

Memories...oh memories/// :o)

[AntonOortmann]

Ik zie dit nu op Omroep Max, zeer mooi dat u dit allemaal nu nog op internet zet! En er word ook nog veel gekeken ook..

[MichaelRogge]

Inderdaad ben ik overweldigd door de waarderende reacties die ik speciaal uit Hong Kong en Macau ontvang op films die ik eigenlijk al afgeschreven had! Er komt nu ook een fotoboek in HK uit.

[peteboatfield]

Beautiful.

[teet555]

prachtig erg mooi ben gek op het verleden

super en wat vakmanschap je moet het maar kunnen de volle mep ***** sterren

[wingklow]

I lived in Macao in 194l and 1942. There was a famous (or well-known) street named October 5th, where women served men, and it was legal. Is that street still in operation?

[MichaelRogge]

That's long ago! I wouldn't know whether that street still exists as I haven't been in Macau for almost fifty years!

[wingklow]

Thanks.  I am sure other viewers would know. Nice to know you are even older than me.

[alanball2009]

Oct 5th is still here there; but the women serving men biz finished a long time ago already. It became a historical attraction now.

[wingklow]

Thanks.

[Rayevo888]

u are talking about nightclub these days hhahaaha

[vitoduval]

@wingklow That action is at some of the bigger Chinese hotels these days, I don't know about the Vegas style hotels.

[wingklow]

@vitoduval You are right about Chinese hotels.  In fact, there was an international incident a few years ago. 400 men from Japan on a company tour of Macao got 400 local women to "entertain" them, all at the same time!

[hinyiu321]

@wingklow

this place still there.. name october 15 street. but no hawker now, can get girl in some hotel...gaming industry is the first income for Macau now...

[wingklow]

@hinyiu321 I read that the U.S. gaming industry is doing better in Macau than in the U.S.

[ericluk68]

@wingklow

this street not "in business" anymore, but buildings still exists. they turned them into guest houses, domestic and shops for tourists. for serving the men's needs, there is a lot of highly luxurious massage parlour or night clubs somewhere else in which u can meet woman from all over the world. do give at try.

[wingklow]

@ericluk68 I remember vividly walking down that street when I was six years old, in 1941. The houses were small and the front doors open. The women could be seen inside. I saw a woman leisurely playing the yangqin, a small Cantonese dulcimer.  I wanted to stay and listen, but my hand was being held by my mother. Of course, I was not allow to visit that street by myself.

Your description sounds very enticing. Thank you. Perhaps I should go there soon. I am already 75.

[quimlio]

@wingklow

October 5th street still be there and women who serve e serving men is other street behide

[wingklow]

@quimlio  Thanks. Exercise caution, all men.

[sc4portugal]

@wingklow I had a look at Rua 5 de Outubro in Macau and it looks like it has normal businesses now.

Every Portuguese city has a road named that

[wingklow]

@sc4portugal Thank you for the information. So the Chinese simply translated the street name from Portugese. And thank god for the Portugese in Macau (and the British in Hong Kong), the Chinese people had the opportunity to escape from the mainland when things were bad.

[sc4portugal]

@wingklow Yes, the 5th October is a holiday in Portugal and is commonly known as the date in which Portugal became a Republic (5th Oct 1910). It is less well known that Portugal became independent on the 5th of October 1143. As far as I know no street name changes have happened in Macau, or in Hong Kong for that matter.

[wingklow]

@sc4portugal You should be very proud in being Portugese. Portugal is the oldest nation in Europe and the first European world power. I may be part Portugese, because I was born in an area bordering Macau. My children are definitely part Portugese because their mother is part Portugese, and they are good looking, so people say.

[Macanese]

@wingklow I think you meant Rua da Felicidade. It is near to the Rua de Cinco de Outubro( THe October 5th street.) Now the legal 'women-serving-men-house' is gone. You can google the street name Rua de Felicidade or copy the Chinese name 福隆新街 to google it in Chinese. you can see the photos.

[wingklow]

@Macanese Thanks. I just watched videos of 福隆新街 Rua de Felicidade. October 5th Street was the street where women served men, as other viewers had confirmed. Maybe Rua de Felicidade also had the same service available, I am not surprised.

[CHOTIRMALL]

那時, 除了德星,還有 大來, 佛山, 利航輪船行走香港澳門之間.  不知道"它們" 的命運如何?

[742262emc]

佛山sank while sheltering against a typhoon hitting HK badly about 40 years ago, killing a number of crew members aboard. My guess is the others could have all been scrapped over the years. Understand most if not all of them were kind of flat bottom vessels meant for river traffic rather than sea going, partly explaining why 佛山quite easily tipped over and sank then.

[CHOTIRMALL]

Thanks for the infos. It appears to me that I have heard the incident of 佛山.

[bobchewaing]

In 1962 I had a Childhood Portuguese 10 years old friend visited Hong Kong, we called him "Ah Share". He speak prefect Cantonese like us but he was not allowed to see western movies. He can only watched Chinese movie at that time. He told me western movie had kissing and nudity and Portuguese descent was restricted to see. As of today, I still do not quite believe it . Can someone from Macao confirm this is true.

[helmighs]

Mooie beelden! :D

Volgens mij ziet het er daar nu totaal anders uit. Best zonde.

[MichaelRogge]

Tegenwoordig is het een woud van wolkenkrabbers dat Las Vegas in de schaduw stelt!

[helmighs]

Ja dat zal me niets verbazen!

Ik kwam hier bij uw filmpjes kijken omdat ik het beeldmateriaal van Omroep Max aan het inladen was. Best indrukwekkend!

[DragonSandaWarrior]

.

eu sou brasileiro e amo macau! xDD

meu sonho eh lutar nessa terra, um dia!

parabens pelo video.

abraço

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[Cold19]

I wish it would have stayed like that. With all the casinos being built, it's just not the same ...

[moumujai]

Do you have any more old Macau movies!

[MichaelRogge]

I have three more clips on old Macau. But I do not have more, alas.

[waynehyl]

thanks for posting this vid! just visited macau.

[moumujai]

Where do you get this beautiful video, it almost makes me cry even though I was two years old when the video was made. I miss the old time very very much!.

[MichaelRogge]

I took this film myself in 16mm in 1960 for Dutch television.

[mustbenice2005]

minha terra! =]

[CiaranMcVeigh]

Nice old archive film here. I'd love to time travel back there and experience what it was really like.

[peter911sss]

praise Macau!

[phamlee1]

This is so kool and love the music. Thanks

[twistblabla]

Why Macau use spanish language? in venetian. but the people speak chinese rite??

[MichaelRogge]

In my time, fifty years ago, Portugese and Chinese was spoken. It was a Portugese colony then.

[twistblabla]

Oh.thanks for d reply..:) takecare

[Cold19]

Macao uses the portuguese language. But not as often as before. Since it's not a portuguese colony anymore, poeple only talk mandarin or cantonese ... But there are still many portuguese speaking people there. I've lived there for 18 years.

[AvatarMarxon90]

@twistblabla Spanish? What the hell? It's Portuguese. From Portugal, you know? The neighbouring country of Spain. *sigh* Macao has to be a really beautiful place. I wish one day I could visit it... as well as Ceuta, Timor and Brasil. I truly hope my dream one day comes true.

[SanjeevBalakrishnaN]

I had been to Macau in 2004. It is a great place indeed.Small but beautiful! Chinese are really quite hardworking people.

[dodoboy1212]

LMFAO macau is messed up now no democracy no freedom cant even protest banned pro democrats from hong kong screw u macau

[Djlazybelu]

THIS IS AWESOME...I LOVE MACAU!

[michael886]

thx u remind me i still born in macau!!! althrough i live in england now but thx!

[michaelcnsoo]

A small difference, we have school uniform,

when I was 11 years old at 1961's; studying

primary school in Macau. Thank you Mr. Rogge

you let me have a visual memory recall

[BafflinBook]

I am a Malaysian Chinese.

Besides casinos i actually know very little about Macau.

We feel she is inextricably linked to HK or i might say overshadowed under Hong Kong influence and our media focus mainly on Hong Kong.

Not surprised to see people in Macau are like many Hong Kongers who are resistant to China's rule.

But i wanna know what truly distinguishes Macau.

[barryshawn]

fire cracker was one of the main industrym in macau. see 4:00

[sophiemacau]

this is my Macau

[LilianaNantes]

Nice video.

[yiucheukhing]

Thank Mr.MichaelRogge for your sharing this video because I was born in Macau in 1947,You have given me a lot of good memories.

[solopolo]

great videos, thanks for sharing them, btw cold you also share your experiences on how to transfer these 8mm 16mm movies to youtube, thanks again!

[timm1100]

I was there. I was part of it. Thanks for sharing the video. The place and life style I missed.

[vanessaseed]

enjoyed the footage - as always, a first class trip to the past

[airbusmacau]

Macau é muito bonito.

我愛澳門

[proritmiaoli]

whew. macau is different now.

[monokuro227]

oh! my heart T~T

macau, I miss you a lot!!

[tusukeki]

i miss macau and my chinese friends ^^

[tazkwok]

Thanks for posting this video. I used to live a block away from the temple. It brought back so many fond, childhood memories with my grandmother. I lived there for ten years and then moved to the United States. I have not been back to Macau in so long, but planning to visit very soon!

[kryztal29]

go macau!its a very historic place

and now it has a lot of casinos.....

[cg57]

Wonderful! Muito obrigado senhor Miguel.

[vespamania]

lot of good old days memories

[NiSaReYTa]

Wow! Ive been livin here ever since I was born yet I didn't know that Macau was like this before! Now it's so different. Nowadays it's so crowded and polluted T_T And it is always smelly in the bus when I go to school since it's always crowded (no offense)

[Cold19]

get a driver's license. Use a scooter, it's the best way to travel in Macao. But it's already full of those anyway ...

[NiSaReYTa]

i wish i could :/ i'm still 12 tho :D

[7516wally]

luv this place

[timm1100]

Thanks. I was there, those were the days.

[CUKC1971]

Thanks a lot for this. Have you anything from the old Praia Grande Bay on film? I mean those centuries old Portuguese mansions that used to line the bay. They were all torn down in the 1970s.

[MichaelRogge]

Sorry, but this is the only footage I had of Macau.

Michael

[gorbache]

There was a movie like this with the exact same scenes but with classical guitar music; does anyone know what happen to it?

[MichaelRogge]

I had it removed as it was an infrigement on my copyright.

[gorbache]

Can you tell me what music you used for it?

[MichaelRogge]

I forgot - it was from a record I bought a very long time ago. Anyhow chinese music as you may have guessed.

[gorbache]

The guitar and piano music was from a Chinese record?

[chimbrae]

this is really memorable... always watching with my daughter... thanks

[takemebabynicky]

thank you very much!!!!

i love them!!!

[Antoniotai]

Sr. MichaelRogge ....muito obrigado!!!!!

[williamfoster2008]

tHIS IS TERRIFIC, i LOVE IT.

[peter82k]

how many days the portuguese take to arrive in macao from portugal

[dicksonmce]

wow.. i couldn't believe this is like macau! its like a totally different place before...sheeps going round the city...man

macau is like so screwed up now, i mean those casino are like so intense...u can see a casino every turn u make. especially the new lisboa...looks like shit...and its like the tallest buiilding in macau...shame

[BessaAlmeida]

Obrigado por estas memorias.Thank you for these memorias.

[Cantonesian]

I was born in Macau in 1960.

Obrigado muito.

[hbread]

Obrigado muito?

the correct is "muito obrigado".

[Cantonesian]

Very much thank you.

[vanessaseed]

the intention is what really counts in global village - absolute correct grammar and syntax only at school, no?

[81meggem81]

I appreciate Macau even more because of this vid. LOVE IT! I would like to go back to Macau again! hehe

[maxicheong]

...such classic footages - so the stories from my grandma about cows on the streets are true!

[chimbrae]

... AWESOME ...

[jbotas]

Amazing!  Congatulations! Give us more!

[gunghsi]

Amazing, rare footage of one of the most wonderous places on earth. This footage is particularly valuable in that old Macau is rapidly vanishing and being replaced by buildings and casinos of no local character.

[Happyslot]

Times are a changin'. For sure you heard it from your old man " that's not how we did things in our days", and that's the same thing you may have said to your son and that's what your son will tell your grandson. Not only Macau but the entire world is losing character, culture, and values.

[rpdluz]

Simplesmente fabuloso. Fabulous, fantastic, I travelled to my past in Macau. Parabéns, I´m going to put a link in my site Projecto Memória Macaense

to your video.