Then and Now: Chapei Fire Station 闸北救火会

Posts from This Journal “then and now” Tag

• ...and the smile slowly disappears from his face (1927)

  This short video from April 1927 shows a visit of foreign consuls to the Bureau of the Foreign Affairs (驻沪 江苏交涉公署, or 外交部). Its old address…

• Corner of Fuzhou & Shandong Roads, 65 years apart (1949 vs. 2014)

  This selection or 130 "then and now" images of Shanghai is extremely low-res, but still quite enjoyable:…

• NE corner of Wulumuqi and Yongjia Roads 1932 vs 2018

  I cannot imagine the rationale behind chiseling off those horse-head gables from the roof (an attack on the Four Olds?). Otherwise, there has…