People of old Hong Kong 1950 香港的老人们

[teleckn]

Dear Mr Rogge,

Thank you very much for sharing your life-long contribution with us. I was particularly touched by the picture of a female beggar and her son. I recall that there was a family of four (a mother and 3 children) squatter in the stairway next to my father's shop. As a 6-year-old boy, I was shocked to know that someone could be so poor. Next day, I saved some rice for them but they were gone. My father noted my act and told me not to bother any more. :(

Terry

[MichaelRogge]

@teleckn Let us hope that the son is in better conditions now. I have received responses of families who were once squatters as shown in my clips but are in far better conditions now thanks to the resilience

[wenjilu]

2:18 見到中華民國國旗.

[udon890]

The music is great. I remember the clothes they used to wear in those days when I was a small child in Hong Kong. Time flies.

[hapongeorge]

Thank you for your good job!

[ricep1cker]

thank you for these pictures. I hope there is more to come

[googlebly]

The photo shown at 2:10 is Hollywood Road. At the center, we can see the 華僑日報 Building. A

longest life newspaper in Hong Kong existed almost 70 years till 1995. This shot made around 1950. It is a real gem.

[MichaelRogge]

Thanks a lot for that interesting piece of information. Such details I have forgotten after some 58 years!

[look17111]

@googlebly do you know where about on Hollywood Road is that? I lived in 1 Hollywood Road right across from the police station, since the day I was born in late 1965. A few years after that my family moved to the US. I am trying to find out what Hollywood road actually look like back in the 60s. I only have a bunch of old photos to go by. Any suggestions?

Thanks

Jeff

[googlebly]

@look17111 The "華僑日報 Building" which I mentioned is at 106-116, but now is

a new house that has rebuilt some years ago. From 2:10 to 2:25 is the

views of Hollywood Road. While the picture I mentioned in the last comment

was taken at the intersection of Shing Wong Street and Hollywood Road.

Btw, while using the key words to search the pictures you want, and some

sites related to Hong Kong history might help. PM me if any further info

is needed.

Thanks for asking!

[vanessaseed]

another great testimonial to life as once was! i like the fact that the letter writer (2min 32) had his sign bilingualized!

thank you so much mr rogge

[bobchewaing]

The letter writer "So Kee" bilingual sign was no kidding. In late 50's each letter charged 30-50 cents. Letter writer knew very little English but they had a copy of every standard letter to the government officials such as water work Dept, electricity etc.etc. Why ? Under the Colonial government English was the only official language in HK up to lately. If you want to get things done fast, English letters can speed it up. Once again, "each picture had a story to tell".

[MichaelRogge]

My thanks to all responders who filled in details of things and people seen in my photo and film clips uploaded, but which I have forgotten. They give an extra dimension to the images shown. The praise given have spurred me on to delve into my archives and upload more clips.

[meitaibb]

Support!!

I'm a student in HK and I love your clips very much. Many thanks for showing us the precious videos and photos of the old HK!^^ Hope you'll produce more and more great clips in the futre!

[toggif]

Valuable pictures and nice background music.

Thank you so much!

[bobchewaing]

Absolutely amazing ! my long gone childhood memories return just like a time machine.

Folks, each picture Mr.Rogge took represent a story behind and our heritage in the old Hong Kong.

As Mr. Rogge said before: "Life is hard, Yet indeed people take it in equanimity"

Simple life, low standard of living. However, people were well connected to each other. This is how a world first class city was born! Thank You very much again Mr. Rogge.

[leefaichai]

Thanks a lot!

[RickinHK]

Great vid, I love this stuff. Living here now it's great to see what life used to be like in HK

[samgladiator]

love it!

[arthurson2]

you can make movie, and you can take a good snapshot at that time as well, good~~~

[robinphillips]

Great shots all the way.... So nice to see this, your videos make me look around alot more when im walking about HK, I keep seeing things and thinking "i wonder if i've seen this before in Michaels Video" ......... Thx again....