Sheung Wan looked like this 45 years ago. See my other 1000 clips by searching UA-cam with 'michael rogge' Website 'Man and the Unknown' wichm.home.xs4a...
I am same age as this video! obviously these images were not in my mind cos I was just born then. still, i am so happy to see such real image back then. when we have a seemingly better 'look' of the city today, many are wishing to have those days back! Thank you very much for your sharing. Best wishes to you!
Thank you for your video. I was a baby in 1964, under the guardian of my parents. I did not know what the world looked like outside my door. I see women wore Cheung Sam (traditional dress in the 50's)
WOW WOW WOW. For 99% of local Hong Kong people who lived here in 1964, we have not seen a colour video. Definitely we did NOT have it in colour for TV, probably not even in local movie. Where does this come from for it is genuine ? Totally amazed
Thanks again and yes, I'm one among those people want to cry when they're watching your clips. Seeing those kids worked on the street but still wore smile on their faces. You can image their life might be poor but they felt joyful to certain extent. Hope that from your wonderful clips the spoiled young people right now in HK can learn more about their parents/grandparents lives in the old time and how they made HK became a famous international and financial city with their hard works.
I was born in Hong Kong in the 50's and grew up there. Few people owned cameras back then. Your video footage documented the everyday life of the Hong Kong people almost half a century ago - an invaluable footage of Hong Kong! Thank you really very much for sharing.
At one time I thought that my (80) movies in 8 and 16mm had no value anymore. Until I received enthousiastic responses and now they are coming to life again in these 190 video clips.
Dear Michael, I'm a German HK resident since 15 years and your videos make me want of go into a time machine back 50-60 years to experience the pure HK as it was. God bless you for giving us such a precious insight about our beloved and treasured people and city. Love, long life and health to you, Hans & Vera, Cheung Chau island
Dear Mr Rogge, thank you so much for captured & sharing all these precious images. It brings tears to my eyes every time watching it, not sad, but full of joy & loving memories. THANK YOU!!
My husband and I are so grateful for this video clip. We have lived in Sheung Wan for nearly 9 years now. We love the area so much because this area still has some old traditional cha chaan tengs, wanton noodles shops, dried seafood stores, and Chinese tea shops. Although so much has changed with the town landscape there are quite a few places and buildings where you can almost imagine, feel and smell how Sheung Wan used to be back in the 60s and 70s.
These collections are superb and capture the essence of Hong Kong exquisitely during those times. Personal videos like these truly show the power of sites like You Tube, enabling people all over the world to enjoy them to their fullest. A most refreshing beak from the norm. Great job!!
Thanks for the amazing footage of Sheung Wan. Now it's completely changed. Only the back street famous for dried produce remains the same, but it's so quiet nowadays.
Thank you very much Sir for sharing these. As a hiker in HK, these are particularly meaningful, giving me a profound historical perspective to the trails I walked.
1964 was the year I joined HK government to be civil servant. My working place was GPO building. It is really wonderful that I could return to that space and time. I just want to cry for that wonderful feeling
Dear Mr. Rogge, Others may already replied. At 2:40 the temple and the school adjacent to it are both quite well preserved. The school was built with the donations collected at the temple. The temple belongs to a long time non-profit organization that also built many hospitals serving the residents many whom cannot afford paid services.
thank you SO much for these videos! i'm only a teenager, so I've only ever been able to see what Hong Kong is like now with all the sky scrapers. always been facsinated by how my grandparents lived and how the city would have looked. truly amazing, thank you so much :)
wow, hahahahaha, michael, you made my day. i live on "bit lay jet see guy" (bridges st) which is a small dead end street above the man mo temple. there are still some signs of the same life in that video but not as much of course. wow, truly incredible for you to upload this. it's a very important piece of history. THANK YOU!!!
Very nice. I was living in Sheung Wan for almost three years. The MaJong scenery hasn't changed ever since then. Thanks for posting and greetings from Hamburg, Germany.
I have had so many responses of HK viewesr who could weep at seeing the old HK.. I took them to show my folks how modern HK looked like at the time. I never realised that they would serve half a century later to show what the old HK looked like!.
Sheung Wan has maintained its old architecture relative to the other areas of Hong Kong. Possibly because of this it's become the cool area for young people in the last 10 years, with very high rents as a result.
Some scenes for the 1960 movie ' The World of Suzie Wong ' were shot next to the Man Mo Temple. To the right, out of shot and across the road, is the building used as the Nam Kok Hotel in the movie. It's now an antique store.
This is really astonishing to all Hong Kong people who can now see their past, their childhood from your color movie, sure, all your collection and your name will go into the Hong Kong history museum, again, let us say thanks to you.
@MichaelRogge Macau has done a good job of preserving its old part and building on new land. The coastline isn't the same but there is a very distinct old town area.
It's amazing how little has changed in all ithese years! In some scenes It almost looks like this video could have been taken today, except for a few things like clothes
I have more than 150 clips on old Hong Kong on UA-cam. There are a few more of Sheung Wan. Too few people recognize themselves in my clips as I have only been able to show a slight portion of the entire population.
Hello Michael, You could go to google map, there's a street view for Hong Kong and you can have a good look how the state of Sheung Wan is right now without leaving the comfort of your chair. But to sum things up - things have changed much. Enjoy the google street view.
The old buildings with the pillars supporting the upper floors all but disappeared. If you look really hard you can find a handful scattered in different neighborhoods. Many are marked for demolition. In my recent trip this spring I was tempted to go into one near the temple street that was condemned and boarded up just to explore.
I guess that most of the people in my video clips have died by now. Only the children may have survived. Would love to hear of anyone recognising him/herself in my videos. But alas, noone did so far!
Hi Michael, yes thats very true but those old movies have a magic about them thats sadly missing from modern films. If anyone is interested they can find this location on google earth, its the corner of Hollywood Rd. and Ladder St. At the top of Ladder St. is a set of stairs that Nancy Kwan walked up in the film, with William Holden looking for her in the crowd.
The Hong Kong people of course, otherwise I wouldn't have gone through the trouble of putting these clips on UA-cam. I wish to share my regret of having lost the old Hong Kong.
i'm actually considering moving to Sheung Wan this summer. it looks like rent for a decent 2 bedroom these days runs between $13,000 and $20,000 (US $1,675 and $2,577). seems to be one of the more expensive parts of Hong Kong? those prices are a little cheaper than Manhattan prices, but the apartments also seem much smaller than those in NY. i'm from the US and am not that familiar with Hong Kong yet.
Thanks so much for sharing this, i was born in HK in 1976, still here now, my office is in Sheung Wan, to think i walk these wonderful streets everyday. Did they smell like dried fish in the 1950's like they smell now?
Wow ! Impressive! A video camera like this quality in those days are rare, and probably professional. what occupation are you? Thanks for sharing this video.
@maestrovso Thanks for your info. Yes, one cannot stop the tooth of time. Here in Amsterdam old buildings are declared a national treasure that may not be demolished. This makes that we still have buildings centuries old.
I guess I am a believer in the saying that "Never say never". The chance may be small, but it could happen. I am taking a very careful viewing of all your uploaded videos (of this region). Once again, thanks, Michael.
@jennylingwong I'm 82 years old and find no pleasure in traveling by plane anymore. Moreover I do not recognize HK anymore. I only go on cruises in Europe.
Hi Mr Michael, is this your recorded image? Thank you for sharing this valuable video. Hong Kong was so pure in the past. Now Hong Kong is very different and have become worst and worst.
After 1997 HK is exactly overdeveloped city. Tall buildings, shopping mall everywhere, meanwhile old street and local culture is vanished. After 5-10 years, there's no difference between some cities in China.
Thanks too, I shared your clips on my faceny good comments about it. I guess you have no clips of my beautiful island Cheung Chau? Do you want me to take a video of any particular corner of HK today?
Dear Mr Rogge, I'm video producer with the South China Morning Post. I am wondering if we could some parts of this video in one of our productions? It's about a hardware store that was founded in 1959. Much appreciated.
No, unfortunately I never called on your island to make exposures. Thanks for the offer for a video of HK today. It would only make me 'wehmutig' so don't bother.
I tried to looking for my father and mother if they were in the film : D There was a pier between Sheung Wan & Central area, ship to Lantau island in 70s and 80s
Thanks, nice background info. I remember that Chinese audiences always had to laugh at American portrayals of Hong Kong, often hopping from Kowloon to Victoria and Chinese wearing outdated clothing.
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I am same age as this video! obviously these images were not in my mind cos I was just born then. still, i am so happy to see such real image back then. when we have a seemingly better 'look' of the city today, many are wishing to have those days back!
Thank you very much for your sharing. Best wishes to you!
All the images were happened before my birth. They are all the treasure of HK. Thx Micheal
Thank you for your video. I was a baby in 1964, under the guardian of my parents. I did not know what the world looked like outside my door. I see women wore Cheung Sam (traditional dress in the 50's)
WOW WOW WOW. For 99% of local Hong Kong people who lived here in 1964, we have not seen a colour video. Definitely we did NOT have it in colour for TV, probably not even in local movie. Where does this come from for it is genuine ? Totally amazed
It was taken for a documentary film I made in 16mm Kodachrome for Dutch television.
Good job. Thank you so much for making the film & most of all, keep it so well for so long:)
Thanks again and yes, I'm one among those people want to cry when they're watching your clips.
Seeing those kids worked on the street but still wore smile on their faces. You can image their life might be poor but they felt joyful to certain extent.
Hope that from your wonderful clips the spoiled young people right now in HK can learn more about their parents/grandparents lives in the old time and how they made HK became a famous international and financial city with their hard works.
I was born in Hong Kong in the 50's and grew up there. Few people owned cameras back then. Your video footage documented the everyday life of the Hong Kong people almost half a century ago - an invaluable footage of Hong Kong!
Thank you really very much for sharing.
I still live in Sheung Wan, though my parents passed away already. Thanks for sharing.
At one time I thought that my (80) movies in 8 and 16mm had no value anymore. Until I received enthousiastic responses and now they are coming to life again in these 190 video clips.
this was beyond memory - I wasn't born yet. Viewing your clip was like seeing my birth place through the eyes of my parents. thanks for sharing.
Dear Michael, I'm a German HK resident since 15 years and your videos make me want of go into a time machine back 50-60 years to experience the pure HK as it was.
God bless you for giving us such a precious insight about our beloved and treasured people and city.
Love, long life and health to you, Hans & Vera, Cheung Chau island
Dear Mr Rogge, thank you so much for captured & sharing all these precious images. It brings tears to my eyes every time watching it, not sad, but full of joy & loving memories. THANK YOU!!
My husband and I are so grateful for this video clip. We have lived in Sheung Wan for nearly 9 years now. We love the area so much because this area still has some old traditional cha chaan tengs, wanton noodles shops, dried seafood stores, and Chinese tea shops. Although so much has changed with the town landscape there are quite a few places and buildings where you can almost imagine, feel and smell how Sheung Wan used to be back in the 60s and 70s.
These collections are superb and capture the essence of Hong Kong exquisitely during those times. Personal videos like these truly show the power of sites like You Tube, enabling people all over the world to enjoy them to their fullest. A most refreshing beak from the norm. Great job!!
THX ! The year I was born in HK !
Thanks for the amazing footage of Sheung Wan. Now it's completely changed. Only the back street famous for dried produce remains the same, but it's so quiet nowadays.
I'm a hongkongese and born this year 1964, my office in Sheung Wan Man Mo Temple area. Your precious footage gives a special meaning to me.
thank you for sharing with us such valuable records.
Thank you very much Sir for sharing these. As a hiker in HK, these are particularly meaningful, giving me a profound historical perspective to the trails I walked.
I remember scenes like these. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for translating that to me. The first time I hear of what people in the clip say.
1964 was the year I joined HK government to be civil servant. My working place was GPO building. It is really wonderful that I could return to that space and time. I just want to cry for that wonderful feeling
Thank you very much! I was born in 1963. I missed my parents and the good old days.
Dear Mr. Rogge,
Others may already replied. At 2:40 the temple and the school adjacent to it are both quite well preserved. The school was built with the donations collected at the temple. The temple belongs to a long time non-profit organization that also built many hospitals serving the residents many whom cannot afford paid services.
Thanks for your records! Invaluable!
thank you SO much for these videos!
i'm only a teenager, so I've only ever been able to see what Hong Kong is like now with all the sky scrapers.
always been facsinated by how my grandparents lived and how the city would have looked.
truly amazing, thank you so much :)
Thank you very much for uploading this clilp..
wow, hahahahaha, michael, you made my day. i live on "bit lay jet see guy" (bridges st) which is a small dead end street above the man mo temple. there are still some signs of the same life in that video but not as much of course. wow, truly incredible for you to upload this. it's a very important piece of history. THANK YOU!!!
Amazing! Thank you so much for sharing this glimpse of the past.
Thank you so much!! This is so authentic.....
Great footage! I'm living near sheung wan now and I regularly walk past that temple you filmed.
Thanks and same to you. I passed your beautiful island by ferryboat many a time more than fifty years ago. Wish you a pleasant stay there.
didn't realize 8mm can capture audio as well.. Thanks for sharing...
finally,I found my year (1964) when I born in HK,it really colours my memory.tks !! ^ ^
Very nice. I was living in Sheung Wan for almost three years. The MaJong scenery hasn't changed ever since then. Thanks for posting and greetings from Hamburg, Germany.
Very nice video of 1964 thanks
This is amazing!! Thanks very much for sharing!
I have had so many responses of HK viewesr who could weep at seeing the old HK.. I took them to show my folks how modern HK looked like at the time. I never realised that they would serve half a century later to show what the old HK looked like!.
Sheung Wan has maintained its old architecture relative to the other areas of Hong Kong. Possibly because of this it's become the cool area for young people in the last 10 years, with very high rents as a result.
Some scenes for the 1960 movie ' The World of Suzie Wong ' were shot next to the Man Mo Temple. To the right, out of shot and across the road, is the building used as the Nam Kok Hotel in the movie. It's now an antique store.
This is really astonishing to all Hong Kong people who can now see their past, their childhood from your color movie, sure, all your collection and your name will go into the Hong Kong history museum, again, let us say thanks to you.
@MichaelRogge Macau has done a good job of preserving its old part and building on new land. The coastline isn't the same but there is a very distinct old town area.
Yes, particularly near the fishmarket!
By the way, Michael, your films are great. I hope the hk govt archive has reached out to you. They should be preserved for viewing by all hk people.
Thanks Michael. I was a 6-yr-old boy living in this area of the world in 1964. I might see myself in one of your videos. Please post more.
Wish the building at 3.53 still exist!
thanks for sharing your video.
Thank You very much
Thank u so much, very good Quality
It looks real :)
hi Mich…thanks so much
The hustle & bustle of Chinatown rightfully captured in the film.
Thanks. I'm not a 'firm', though. I was myself privileged to wander through Sheung Wan in the good old times of the fifties, taking my camera along!
@nwong6410 . Yes, they will have a professional digitalisation of the films for their archives very soon.
Thank you
It's amazing how little has changed in all ithese years! In some scenes It almost looks like this video could have been taken today, except for a few things like clothes
6-80年代頭香港都市就係尼D顏色!懷念!thx!MichaelRogge
I have more than 150 clips on old Hong Kong on UA-cam. There are a few more of Sheung Wan. Too few people recognize themselves in my clips as I have only been able to show a slight portion of the entire population.
好清，重要有聲，十分珍貴
Hello Michael,
You could go to google map, there's a street view for Hong Kong and you can have a good look how the state of Sheung Wan is right now without leaving the comfort of your chair. But to sum things up - things have changed much. Enjoy the google street view.
The old buildings with the pillars supporting the upper floors all but disappeared. If you look really hard you can find a handful scattered in different neighborhoods. Many are marked for demolition. In my recent trip this spring I was tempted to go into one near the temple street that was condemned and boarded up just to explore.
I wonder how many of these people are still with us?
i never know that the video quality in 1964 is already that good, i thought only black and white existed at the time
I guess that most of the people in my video clips have died by now. Only the children may
have survived. Would love to hear of anyone recognising him/herself in my videos. But alas, noone did so far!
Oh hey this is the first time i saw my grandma in color
lol
thank you
Hi Michael, yes thats very true but those old movies have a magic about them thats sadly missing from modern films. If anyone is interested they can find this location on google earth, its the corner of Hollywood Rd. and Ladder St. At the top of Ladder St. is a set of stairs that Nancy Kwan walked up in the film, with William Holden looking for her in the crowd.
Thanks so much !
I was born in Winter time of 1964
@79snowwolf . Thanks for update. Hardly believable a quiet Sheung Wan district!
The Hong Kong people of course, otherwise I wouldn't have gone through the trouble of putting these clips on UA-cam. I wish to share my regret of having lost the old Hong Kong.
i'm actually considering moving to Sheung Wan this summer. it looks like rent for a decent 2 bedroom these days runs between $13,000 and $20,000 (US $1,675 and $2,577). seems to be one of the more expensive parts of Hong Kong? those prices are a little cheaper than Manhattan prices, but the apartments also seem much smaller than those in NY. i'm from the US and am not that familiar with Hong Kong yet.
Thanks so much for sharing this, i was born in HK in 1976, still here now, my office is in Sheung Wan, to think i walk these wonderful streets everyday. Did they smell like dried fish in the 1950's like they smell now?
Wow ! Impressive!
A video camera like this quality in those days are rare, and probably professional. what occupation are you?
Thanks for sharing this video.
@maestrovso Thanks for your info. Yes, one cannot stop the tooth of time. Here in Amsterdam old buildings are declared a national treasure that may not be demolished. This makes that we still have buildings centuries old.
that was a fascinating hong kong !
I guess I am a believer in the saying that "Never say never". The chance may be small, but it could happen. I am taking a very careful viewing of all your uploaded videos (of this region). Once again, thanks, Michael.
Life was basic but happy.
beautiful :) i definitely see differences, but there are some elements of hong kong back then that still look similar :D i wish i lived back then...
@jennylingwong I'm 82 years old and find no pleasure in traveling by plane anymore. Moreover I do not recognize HK anymore. I only go on cruises in Europe.
Wow, all those buildings were gone in the past 30 years
Depending on where you go in Macau. There are still some fairly old areas there while the area near the ferry and cotai are totally different.
Nice!
Hi Mr Michael, is this your recorded image?
Thank you for sharing this valuable video.
Hong Kong was so pure in the past.
Now Hong Kong is very different and have become worst and worst.
The video clips have been transfered from 16mm Kodachrome colour film, hence the quality.
After 1997 HK is exactly overdeveloped city. Tall buildings, shopping mall everywhere, meanwhile old street and local culture is vanished. After 5-10 years, there's no difference between some cities in China.
Not one overweight person to be seen. How time has changed.
Thanks too, I shared your clips on my faceny good comments about it. I guess you have no clips of my beautiful island Cheung Chau? Do you want me to take a video of any particular corner of HK today?
Dear Mr Rogge, I'm video producer with the South China Morning Post. I am wondering if we could some parts of this video in one of our productions? It's about a hardware store that was founded in 1959. Much appreciated.
What is your email address?
No, unfortunately I never called on your island to make exposures. Thanks for the offer for a video of HK today. It would only make me 'wehmutig' so don't bother.
So do I. Most of them have died. Only few people seen in my 830 clips have survived - alas !
I found my old friend in ManWu Temple
whoa, im 13 and i live in hong kong...
and i never knew hong kong looked like that. O_O
年輕人想體驗舊香港住宅的氣氛，可以去澳門的舊城區感受一下，澳門的建築物保育比較好。
Michael do you like Hong kong or Hong Kong people?
I tried to looking for my father and mother if they were in the film : D
There was a pier between Sheung Wan & Central area, ship to Lantau island in 70s and 80s
@jasonng861231 Are you sure? I heard and saw that it looks more like Las Vegas nowadays !
勁正！good！
If they were alive why did they never respond to my vids?
Do you mean to say that you RECOGNIZED your grandmother?
At 3:50, when was the girl doing?
It looks she was doing on firecrackers.
If so, it was extremely dangerous.
yes, i think so
Interestingly, the modern Macau still looks a bit like the old Hong Kong in this video
Thanks, nice background info. I remember that Chinese audiences always had to laugh at American portrayals of Hong Kong, often hopping from Kowloon to Victoria and Chinese wearing outdated clothing.
Those kids are 50+ yo now. I think most of them alive
If the people complain about Child Labor....see how we all lived
through before and we had to work so hard to earn those little
pennies.