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A Yankee Band on the Bubbling Well Road – January 1929 and the US Navy’s in Town

Posted: February 22nd, 2016 | No Comments »

Shanghai, January 1929 and the US Navy is in town and up to high jinx. Here Gerald H Glauser of the US Navy leads a band of Chinese musicians and assorted navy boys in an impromptu parade down the Bubbling Well Road (Nanjing West Road to newcomers). What exactly this racket sounded like we cannot know and only imagine but everyone seems to be having fun….

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