John,
You have a very good memory. You're right. The different from your 1972
picture, the hotel --- Hilton, at the left hand side of your picture was
rebuilt as Cheung Kong Center. Besides, a new HQ building of Bank of China
(Hong Kong Branch) replaced "old" HQ building of BOC.
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Michael
2008/12/21 John Hudson <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Michael, image IMG3588 is a walk back in time, to the mid 1970s no less.
>
> As I recall, the trams are heading down Des Voeux Road, Central and the
> other fork to the left is Queens Road, Central.
>
> The "low rise" building on the right is Princes Building. My office was
> on
> the 8th floor in the north east corner of the building.
>
> Here are three quick and dirty scans of three K25 slides taken back in
> 1972:
>
>
> www.JohnHudsonPhoto.com/Temp/bank_of_china_building_and_princes_building.jpg
> www.JohnHudsonPhoto.com/Temp/bank_of_china_building.jpg
> www.JohnHudsonPhoto.com/Temp/statue_square_0672.jpgThe 2nd and 3rd shots
> were taken from my office window. No doubt there hasbeen some additional
> building work since then!I would be interested in seeing another two shots.
> One taken 90 degreesclockwise from the same spot you took IMG3588 and the
> second one 90 degreeanticlockwise from the same spot.John Hudson-----
> Original Message -----From: "Michael Wong" <mialop@xxxxxxxxxxxx>To:
> "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>Sent: Sunday,
> December 21, 2008 8:01 AMSubject: [OM] First roll of slide film for my
> Rollei 35s> The color saturation is high & over my expectation. The image
> quality is> pretty good, it's worth to own one :-)>>>
> http://www.fotop.net/MichaelWong/Central>>>> ---> Michael> -->
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