Wallis and the Palace Hotel – #2

Following on from my post about Wallis staying at the Palace Hotel on the Shanghai Bund in autumn 1924 the phenomenal Old Shanghai picture researcher (& newly minted Old Shanghai Phd) Katya Knyazeva sent me this gem from 1924 reminding me that the trams ran right outside along the Bund and that, already, it seems the plot to the north of the Palace, across Nanjing Rd, was cleared and would eventually be Victor Sassoon’s Cathay Hotel in 1929….