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Texaco Roofing in Shanghai

Posted: February 1st, 2010 | 3 Comments »

One of the architectural nerds of Shanghai today. An ad for Texaco Roofing materials from the 1920s. You’ll note that these were the products used on a variety of well known buildings including the Allen Memorial Church, Shanghai General Hospital, the Dah Fong Cotton Mill (gone), Chekiang Road Theatre (gone), the Wing On Textile Mill (gone)  and Maclean’s Church at Sunkiang.

Texaco roofing materials - 1924

3 Comments on “Texaco Roofing in Shanghai”

  1. 1 cintia said at 11:50 pm on February 7th, 2010:

    Ah.. didn’t know there’s another theatre on Chekiang Road. There’s a Chekiang Theatre designed by Lazlo Hudec in the shape of a gun. A pretty interesting structure :)

  2. 2 Paul French said at 1:29 am on February 11th, 2010:

    might be the same one with different names and therefore not ‘gone’ as I suggested

  3. 3 Timothy Joe Mills said at 6:44 am on December 11th, 2012:

    Please send me your e-mail address.

    Thank you.

    Sincerely, Timothy Joe Mills

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