I remember that time so well. I was 36 and enjoying my work in HK. In the evening it was so relaxing to go out with friends, take the Star Ferry to Kowloon and find new places to eat. Half the population was under-25! So the energy, optimism and speed of doing things was wonderful.Thanks for this precious footage, Michael.
You were a vlogger before the term was even invented. Thank you for sharing this. This reminds me of Hong-Kong when we visited the city in the late 1970s.
Nothing like Hong Kong. Special people in a special place. I'm originally from the uk and been to Hong Kong many times. I have a feeling that in my last life this is were I was . Good video
I was born there 1936, left in 1956, and came back on an around the world trip in 1963, starting from New York. Was divorced in 1984 by my Chinese wife, and vacation alone there in 1989 also to my childhood place in Guangzhou. George Wu, ARCHITECT , AIA, NCARB 2018-8-27
Hey ! George , I was born in GuangZhou too , in Ming Garden , TungShan . You are about 11 years older than me . Visited Hong Kong and GuangZhou in 1989 too . Happy 2023 . From Wisconsin . ☕️🍰🧀🥨🍩🥮🍫🍦
@Bouncybon. I went often on Saturday afternoons to Kowloon. The name Tsim Sha Tsui was hardly known under foreigners. In the early fifties I went to Radio People, a bookshop there, the wooden chest district, and hunting for new LP's, topping it of with a chocolate milkshake at the Dairy Farm.
At 0.29, it shows buildings under construction...at the near sight the bun-like Space Museum at Tsimshatsui, at the middle part extending beyond the sea wall the then Regent Hotel now renamed the Inter Continental HK, and on the right the then New World Centre now reconstructed as K11 Artus. In 1978, I was no longer a resident site staff, and had moved to the head office at New World Tower in Central. Thank you, Mr. Rogge, for bringing back such nice memories of my good old days.
in those years, ivory was not banned and this tiny colony was starting to smell the air of some economic successes...thanks for sharing mike. great footage!
Fantastic! I like to see your videos and it always bring out amazement on how life was decades ago! In those days, only the rich, soldiers, business people, journalist or government officials could travel to so many places around the world.. which camera did you use for this video? It look very clear even when taking night video.
I lived there eight years before the boom. It was exciting, mysterious, fascinating. Consumer culture to the nth degree. This is a marvelous film and narration. Nice to see a shot of Jimmy’s Kitchen, one of the city’s best-known restaurants, a favorite among expats.
I'm so glad to watch these two countries on youtube in decades later as the newer generations looking back on their former generation how their lives was like and looked.
Although I am not Hongkong people who lives in the British colonied era but I can imagine a life full of abundance and hapiness before being ruled by the Chinese Goverment.
Hi Mike: How are you doing? In your opening statement you mention the population in Hong Kong in 1949 was 3 million while in 1978 it was 6 million. I just googled and found the population in Hong Kong in 1949 was 1.8 million while in 1978 was 4.6 million. I hope such findings would be helpful to your viewers.
Dear Michael, I am wondering whether you were in a tram when you were filming at 2:05. I can see the rail on the road. The market and the people were so close. You also went to a toy factory to film how they made toys. Interesting.
Hong Kong was / is one of the most unique and impressive places in the world. Loved every bloody second of my years there prior to 1997... Still dream about returning and finding my old flat (though probably long since demolished :)
Does anyone have more footage of the old Kader factory in Hong Kong? This is the only video I've come across that features clips with Bachmann model trains being manufactured in Hong Kong.
I was born on 1978. omg. now I know how modern Hong Kong people at that time. anyway, you travel a lot in young time. what actually is your career on that time sir?
It 's my nostalgia too. Do you have old footages for Tai Kwok Tsui and Mong Kok. It would be more nostalgia to me. I don't like the existing HK where is changed to another world.
I am getting rid of old clothes and came across some Made in HK garment. Some are still brand new, my bad habit of buying too much every time I went back to HK. I don't want to throw them out as I think they belong to a museum!! A long time ago, I watched on TV about a "Made in HK" museum. I wonder if it is still in operation?
I remember that time so well. I was 36 and enjoying my work in HK. In the evening it was so relaxing to go out with friends, take the Star Ferry to Kowloon and find new places to eat. Half the population was under-25! So the energy, optimism and speed of doing things was wonderful.Thanks for this precious footage, Michael.
@John Wick how necessary is it to tie politics to a simpler time. just enjoy history as it is.
@John Wick Chinese Communist Party are destroying Hong Kong too
I have been living in HK for 1 year now but I became fascinated by its history, your footages make travel back in time. Thank you so much.
非常珍貴的影片，
值得永珍藏!
No footage of HONG KONG is complete without a B747 making the turn to line up to runway 13. Thanks Mr. Rogge!!
Wow! Thank you for this. I'm doing research on Hong Kong right now, and your footage is fantastic and informative.
You were a vlogger before the term was even invented. Thank you for sharing this. This reminds me of Hong-Kong when we visited the city in the late 1970s.
My parent's era! Such cool videos, very precious footage. Thank you so much for sharing Mr. Rogge!!!
Nothing like Hong Kong. Special people in a special place. I'm originally from the uk and been to Hong Kong many times. I have a feeling that in my last life this is were I was . Good video
Looking at what's happening in HK today makes me really sad to watch this video. Thanks for the upload. This is the HK I remember as a child.
I was born there 1936, left in 1956, and came back on an around the world trip in 1963, starting from New York. Was divorced in 1984 by my Chinese wife, and vacation alone there in 1989 also to my childhood place in Guangzhou. George Wu, ARCHITECT , AIA, NCARB 2018-8-27
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Hey ! George , I was born in GuangZhou too , in Ming Garden , TungShan . You are about 11 years older than me . Visited Hong Kong and GuangZhou in 1989 too . Happy 2023 . From Wisconsin . ☕️🍰🧀🥨🍩🥮🍫🍦
@Bouncybon. I went often on Saturday afternoons to Kowloon. The name Tsim Sha Tsui was hardly known under foreigners. In the early fifties I went to Radio People, a bookshop there, the wooden chest district, and hunting for new LP's, topping it of with a chocolate milkshake at the Dairy Farm.
Thank you Mr. Rogge to share such lot of priceless memories to us. Thank you from Hong Kong.
At 0.29, it shows buildings under construction...at the near sight the bun-like Space Museum at Tsimshatsui, at the middle part extending beyond the sea wall the then Regent Hotel now renamed the Inter Continental HK, and on the right the then New World Centre now reconstructed as K11 Artus.
In 1978, I was no longer a resident site staff, and had moved to the head office at New World Tower in Central.
Thank you, Mr. Rogge, for bringing back such nice memories of my good old days.
words can not describe the magic of 1980s hk, what a time to be alive!
This is really cool! i go down to Java Street market (almost) everyday, and some of the shops seen in this video remains the same till this day.
Alan Li LOL! So cool, Hong-Kong it's amazing..
Thank you Mr Rogge. This was the lost image for Hong Kong.
Amazing footage, I just wish I had gone to HK much earlier than I did. Thanks again Michael.
in those years, ivory was not banned and this tiny colony was starting to smell the air of some economic successes...thanks for sharing mike. great footage!
Thank you for you footage of Hong Kong.
Absolutely love this video, I was just a kid at this time, but was fortunate enough visit Hong Kong In the 90s and was part of the handover.
Those videos are amazing!
Fantastic! I like to see your videos and it always bring out amazement on how life was decades ago! In those days, only the rich, soldiers, business people, journalist or government officials could travel to so many places around the world.. which camera did you use for this video? It look very clear even when taking night video.
This is a priceless YT channel.....
I lived there eight years before the boom. It was exciting, mysterious, fascinating. Consumer culture to the nth degree. This is a marvelous film and narration. Nice to see a shot of Jimmy’s Kitchen, one of the city’s best-known restaurants, a favorite among expats.
Mr.Michael Rogge, thank you so much
That Six Million Dollar Man doll, with the telescope eye, was right out of my childhood! Gawd, the memories . . . . Thanks, Hong Kong!
The toy truck being assembled at 4:07, I had one as a kid, part of a "smash up" derby set.
Love your videos... regards from Brazil!
Great, I see Chun Yeung Street (the one showing the market place) in the clip. It reminds me my childhood life there. Thanks.
Blooming age.. living hard but rapid growth in entire society. Everyone had positive thinking for living better. Really a golden period of Hong Kong.
舊香港呀.....正片 !
Very nice clip , tnx for sharing!
I'm so glad to watch these two countries on youtube in decades later as the newer generations looking back on their former generation how their lives was like and looked.
bring back old memories of the 70s, fantastic footage
I want the name of the background music badly. =(
@ralphzwang Thanks. Actually in my days in the early fifties there was hardly an industry in HK!
Dear Mr Rogge, thanks for sharing these beautiful videos with us . Hope you are doing well ❤️
Mr. Rogge, really thank you for sharing all these valuable videos of Hong Kong specially this place is disappearing now! thank you! hong konger.
I left Hong Kong in 1969 . Such prosperity seems be there forever under the Union Jack . ❤👍
Do u like hk?
hard to imagine hk was like this before! thanks for the vid, i watched all of them!
1978 I was about 16 and thank you very much
Thank you !! It is great
Although I am not Hongkong people who lives in the British colonied era but I can imagine a life full of abundance and hapiness before being ruled by the Chinese Goverment.
Certainly better overall. The number of BNO's and others leaving is very high.
OMG that Right Hand Drive Pontiac in 4:51... must be a rare sight in those days!
This is brilliant! So good to see old Hong Kong. I recently uploaded a video of present Hong Kong - some things haven’t changed.
雖然昔日係覺得落後 d , 但生活上真係好平静和好寫意，現今的香港真係一塌胡塗，價值觀唔知去咗邊😔
Gone with the wind !
Hong Kong in the 70s, the best🙏🏻
Hi Mike: How are you doing? In your opening statement you mention the population in Hong Kong in 1949 was 3 million while in 1978 it was 6 million. I just googled and found the population in Hong Kong in 1949 was 1.8 million while in 1978 was 4.6 million. I hope such findings would be helpful to your viewers.
You are quite right. I have adjusted the figures. Thanks a lot.
Fabulous. What great memories
The scene that two boys shared a drink is so touch. He ain't heavy, he's my brother.
Dear Michael,
I am wondering whether you were in a tram when you were filming at 2:05. I can see the rail on the road. The market and the people were so close.
You also went to a toy factory to film how they made toys. Interesting.
North Point market I would guess
Unforgettable memories 👍👏💪🙌🙏🙇♀️
80-90年代令人最懷念,什麼都好
Damn right . Agree .
1978...it's my era, love it and thank you!
Hong Kong was / is one of the most unique and impressive places in the world. Loved every bloody second of my years there prior to 1997... Still dream about returning and finding my old flat (though probably long since demolished :)
Good.
That was a good year I love living in a hong kong @Pokfulam on the island.
Someone know the name of the song that play in the beggening ? I really need it
My English is poor, I write in chinese . 影片所見的建築工地，應該是鄭裕彤先生 " 新世界中心 " New World Center & Regent Hotel , New World Hotel sight .
Does anyone have more footage of the old Kader factory in Hong Kong? This is the only video I've come across that features clips with Bachmann model trains being manufactured in Hong Kong.
1978...it's my era, love it
Great footage of HK's past! thanks for sharing...
我一輩子都壞念那個年代HONG KONG
Wat een indrukwekkende historische opnames van Hong Kong, ben er zelf destijds ook geweest.Uw filmcollectie is Uniek !!
met hartelijk groeten !!
Ook gegroet. Ik heb nog 150 andere Hong Kong clips op UA-cam staan. Te vinden door te zoeken met 'michael rogge hong kong'
I was born on 1978. omg. now I know how modern Hong Kong people at that time. anyway, you travel a lot in young time. what actually is your career on that time sir?
The girls look prettier back then
Dang its like looking at the video is like a time machine for a minute back in time
It 's my nostalgia too. Do you have old footages for Tai Kwok Tsui and Mong Kok. It would be more nostalgia to me.
I don't like the existing HK where is changed to another world.
I suggest you have a look at my other 150 clips on old Hong Kong by searching with 'michael rogge hong kong' !
when the whole hongkong is better then whole mainland
almost 8 million people live in Hong Kong now! 2019
Life in protest, of course
Housing shortage and price in HK is hillariously expensive
During the 60’s when I was living in HongKong , the population was about a little over 4 millions . Already considered a lot . 😮
Hong kong 1978 economy is better than my country
before Made in China was MADE IN HONG KONG
I prefer things made in Hong Kong better than made in China. hong Kong was better quality. Miss those days.
I am getting rid of old clothes and came across some Made in HK garment. Some are still brand new, my bad habit of buying too much every time I went back to HK. I don't want to throw them out as I think they belong to a museum!! A long time ago, I watched on TV about a "Made in HK" museum. I wonder if it is still in operation?
I remember that time so well , I wasn't be born………
😀😂😀
those toys being made should be lee major's 6 million dollar man right.
3:58 That's Steve Carrell's character's favourite action figure from The 40 Year Old Virgin
1978! I was 6 years old!
I was seven
nice footage, more please...
"making something" isn't necessarily the same as "getting somewhere" but worth a try.
@4:51 I miss those days when American RHD cars, including Pontiac, Lincoln, and Caddilac, were sold in Hong Kong.
Don't worry. Trump is going to make the ChiComs start selling our cars.
There is A LOT in this video !
The only thing not change is the star ferry, taxi and the ding ding train.
I born in 1977, I know Hong Kong most famous in light industries; toys; clothes making; watch
At that time, HK was the workbench for toys, light industry and watches for the world.
Just 15 years later, mainland China took over this workbench.
American toy companies used HK’s dirt cheap labor and lack of restrictions to produce their products in the 70s.
It is also the starts of decline for lower middle class the rise of extreme poverty and extreme wealth.
This is like going back with a time-machine.
I remember vaguely about my home in Yuen Long
Beautiful Hong Kong1978
Wonder how they found the name "Tsim Sha Tsui"
viery viery Good Hong Kong 👍👍👌👌💯💯
2:52 very beautiful european young girl!!!
You can love her all you want now.
Is Hong Kong in China? What’s the capital of China?
Amparo Howell technically is China, but has its own government system, different culture ... China s capital is Beijing
RRMARC thank you for the info
I was once worked with a woman who said Tokyo was in China . 😮😮😮😮😮
It would be surreal if I was to to see my parents walking around in HK during that period in the videos.
golden age of HK , but now hk is a international gambling centre.
那是澳门
1:06 Soviet ship, see the red banner?
The industrial revolution for Hong Kong
3:49 I had one of those dolls/action figures
Dear, dear learning from archives of the 70's. Today's high standards requirements by integrating information... Take care,
Nice roggeee
thanks
Too bad it all went to shit now. Thanks, China. Much love.
Made in HongKong the old school
I live this place
those youth and ignorant hl ppl didn't know how much it take to built hk till how modern it's now and they wanna destory hk.
heel erg bedankt
Honk Kong is a nightmare of skyscrapers
这是雷洛那个年代吧？？黑帮横行吗？