The Lombard Street of Shanghai...

...was the nickname of Kiukiang Road (Jiujiang Road 九江路) in the second half of the 1920s. Also, comparisions were made with Wall Street, depending on the journalist's provenance, one suspects.

Bank of East Asia, at the southwest corner of Sichuan Road and Jiujiang Road.

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Municipal councillor's dream (1925)

Any good bureaucrat can relate! The municipal coffers are full and locked; new capacious trams move passengers along well-organized streets; Shanghai…
Lovely, if fuzzy, footage of Shanghai in mid-1930s

At 0:15 there is a view along North Szechuen Road showing the New Asia Hotel, finished by May 1934, but the Bridge House Apartments is not yet…
Shanghai downtown from air (1936)

High angle hi-res shots of Shanghai are one of my favorite things. Photo by Wulf-Diether Count of Castell-Rüdenhausen. Source.