Recently, a news has appeared on the front page of major media, and the long-established Starbucks in Dudrake Street in Central, Hong Kong, is about to close.
When hearing this news, the mood is quite complicated, you should know that this is the world's only "ice room" style Starbucks, the decoration is very Hong Kong characteristics, once also many tourists, couples of punch card resort, carrying many people's memories of Hong Kong.
In the movie "It's Already Hong Kong Tomorrow", the male protagonist who has lived in Hong Kong for many years said to the female protagonist: "This is the first Starbucks in Hong Kong, which is the only four gas lamps left in Hong Kong." "The vintage Central Starbucks has clearly become an urban feature of Hong Kong.
As soon as the news came out, many netizens were also expressing their memories of Starbucks.
In recent years, due to the changes of the times and the epidemic, some things in Hong Kong have unconsciously disappeared, and the Hong Kong that remained in everyone's mind in the 1980s and 1990s seems to be getting farther and farther away.
Starbucks will disappear, and some of Hong Kong's unique experiences will most likely cease to be common! Today, let's take stock of the experience of Hong Kong's possible disappearance, and the little partner must take advantage of the time when he is still in Hong Kong!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="17" >01- The Ferris wheel in Central that has been shut down twice</h1>
"The sky is old, lingering on the Ferris wheel, watching the world flow from a high place."
I don't know if your friends have ever heard this lyric? The Central Ferris Wheel was built in Hong Kong by a Swiss company in 14 years, standing on the Central Promenade in Hong Kong, where everyone crosses the sea by bus or subway from Kowloon, and if you go to the IFC area, it is very easy to see and is also one of the landmarks of Central. However, in the short history of the Ferris wheel in Central, there have been two long suspensions.
However, the Ferris wheel was almost dismantled in 17 years, when the original company Swiss AEX was ready to hand over the ferris wheel to the new operator TECL, but at that time, the handover procedures were blocked, and the original company once issued a press release, saying that TECL could not show proof of funds and would reapply for an operating license. If the government does not approve the reopening, the Ferris wheel will be dismantled.
At that time, the handover storm caused the Ferris wheel to stop operating for nearly four months. Fortunately, in the end, the two sides reached an agreement, and the new operator officially took over the Ferris wheel in November.
And this change of hands also brings a benefit to tourists and citizens: the ticket price of the Ferris wheel has been reduced from the original 100 yuan to 20 yuan, and the wallet pressure of playing the Ferris wheel is suddenly much smaller!
The second time was around July last year, when the epidemic broke out in Hong Kong, and the Ferris wheel was also suspended for about two months. During the period of decommissioning, this area was also rarely visited, and suddenly became lifeless.
The suspension did not resume until September of the same year, when Jude also went to punch the card and slowly rose to the top to see the whole central feeling is really shocking, and the feeling of sitting on the bus and looking up at the building is completely different.
There is also an open-air cinema near the Central Waterfront, where all kinds of people are crowded, and on the other side, you can also see the scenery of Victoria Harbour, especially the sunset and night view, which can see the most beautiful moments of Hong Kong every day! Wall crack Amway has not yet experienced the small partner to experience a hand!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="38" >02- Neon scene in Hong Kong films</h1>
The impression of Hong Kong is that of the large size of neon signs seen in Hong Kong films. Especially in the Yau Tsim Mong area, at night, neon signs illuminate the streets of Hong Kong, with vivid and powerful fonts, directly like walking into the movies of "Chongqing Forest" and "Fallen Angel"!
These large neon signs are indeed rare in the mainland, and once when Jude went to find a house, he saw a huge neon sign outside a room in Jotun, and for a moment there was a very dreamy feeling.
However, it is worrying that these distinctive signs are also likely to disappear!
On the one hand, with the gradual tightening of Hong Kong's building regulations, BRIGHTer, lower maintenance LED lights are widely adopted. On the other hand, Hong Kong's Yau Tsim Mong's Buildings Department will remove hundreds of signboards every year for safety reasons, and the two factors will be clamped down, and Hong Kong's neon signs are also in rapid decline, and the former Shanghai Street and Jordan Road are colorful, and after demolition, they are no longer distinctive.
And the M+ Museum, which will open this year, has a project to collect Hong Kong's neon signs, when a thing is gradually collected into the museum, everyone knows.
Hong Kong still has a lot of neon signs, if you want to go to these "net rainbow" place punch card, recommended to everyone two places.
One is the pedestrian overpass in Mong Kok, which stands on top of the neon signs a little closer! Also very suitable for taking pictures, super out of the film! The other is in the temple street area, almost every street has colorful neon lights, which definitely meets the needs of small partners who have Hong Kong-style feelings and love Hong Kong style. In fact, it is not difficult to find neon street scenes in the area of Yau Tsim Mong, and you can pick a weekend night to explore slowly.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="58" >03- an old-school Shanghai barbershop</h1>
One of the heart-wrenching aspects of living expenses in Hong Kong is a haircut. Casually go to a barbershop, wash and blow a set down to hundreds of yuan, more expensive than the mainland tony teacher more than a little more expensive.
But in fact, there is a place in Hong Kong, washing hair, cutting hair, shaving, ear picking and other full services, as long as dozens of yuan, and the master's technology is not sloppy at all - they are one of the Hong Kong cultures that were once popular in Hong Kong, Shanghai Barbershop.
In the 5th and 60s of the last century, many Chinese people went south to settle in Hong Kong, including many barbers in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the barber shop they opened was called Shanghai Barber Shop.
Compared with Guangdong haircuts, Shanghai haircuts were simply a symbol of quality in those years! In addition to washing, cutting and blowing, shaving, ear picking are all inclusive, barbers also need to have a certain amount of seniority to cut hair for customers, and the technology is very skilled. This kind of "flying hair" enjoyment is also a portrayal of the exquisite life of Hong Kong people in the last century. In the 1970s, beatles hairstyles were popular in Hong Kong, and it also brought about a barbershop business.
But in recent years, chain barbershops and salons have prevailed, and the traditional Shanghai barber shops have struggled to survive, and there are few left in Hong Kong, but they still retain the old-fashioned decoration, tin dampers, old-fashioned electric hair machines and traditional razors. In recent years, thanks to media publicity, many young people are willing to go to shanghai barbershops for haircuts, and there is even a young Band in Hong Kong called New Youth Barbershop.
Now there are very few barbershops left in Shanghai, the new youth barbershopSpring hallSpring I once went to has closed, and there is a new East Asia barber company located in Shanghai Street, Yau Ma Tei, which is still open for information on the Internet. If you want to experience the exquisite life of old Hong Kong, you can also try your luck
After years of precipitation, many of Hong Kong's shops and facilities have long become important landmarks and microcosm of Hong Kong's culture. When these places that carry collective memories are said goodbye one by one, everyone can't help but feel sighing and remembering.
Therefore, it is better to take advantage of the National Day to relive the old days of Hong Kong and meet with friends in Hong Kong to punch in Oh~
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LOHAS Bay Area: https://sourl.cn/bQAU4i
VJMEDIA：https://www.vjmedia.com.hk/articles/2013/12/05/56162
M+ Official Website: https://www.mplus.org.hk/tc/magazine/collecting-neon-signs-from-hong-kongs-streets/
Stills from the movies "It's Already Hong Kong Tomorrow" and "Fallen Angel"