Hong Kong 1954 - going to the beach

Office outing to the beach. Complete DVD can be found here: www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/Film_DVDlijst.html
and a photo of some of these people here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12350343@N04/1281644888/in/set-72157601778940591/
See all my 70 vids on old Hong Kong here:
www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A08F26F648CE6143

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• Hong
• Kong
• old
• beach
• cars
• fifties
• 1954
• MG
• Oldsmobile
• convertible
• girls
• boys
• swim

[bensontam]

you must be a wealthy guy back then. Only wealthy person in Hong Kong owns a car, especially in 1950s.

[MichaelRogge]

@bensontam Not that wealthy! I bought the Oldsmobile Convertible second-hand.

[dawnnadir]

These Chinese girls are hot! Do you still keep in touch with them?

[MichaelRogge]

@dawnnadir If they are still alive, they are old women now - around 75 years old! Alas, I have not heard of any of the staff members of our bank in the early fifties and wonder if any of them are still alive. Some of them emigrated to the USA. The Dutch colleagues seen in the clip have died many years ago!

[swithlanduk]

Michael I love this clip with the three HK girls in the back of the car. In that respect, things have not changed too much !! I bet you has a wild time back then. Do you remember the FCC up on Conduit Road back in the 50's, where they filmed Love is a many spledored thing ? Charles

[MichaelRogge]

@swithlanduk Sorry, I was not that kind of a wild guy, appearances notwithstanding! One of the few times I visited the FCC in 1949 I was given a lift home by the reporter Han Suyin was in love with in his MG!

[schutzstaffel0000]

All the beautiful day has gone. All HK beach has been polluted, just like mainland China nowadays.

[canman5060]

Michael,

They are ALL GREAT video clips. Bring back a lot of memory from ny childhood years in Hong Kong. I cry watching many of those.

[hkchrism]

Which beaches did you go to Michael? That's one thing you might find hasn't changed all that much (parts of the south side plus much of the outlying islands and the new territories).

[meganstephen83]

keep safe

[sifurick123]

I was born in china in hong kong 1952 . My family blood line consists of three different nationalities . Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese. There is an old saying . when a person moves to a foreign country the first two thing he tries is the food and the women . I not quite sure in what order.