Beware Strangely Appearing Date Stamps
Posted: May 3rd, 2011 | 1 Comment »Some odd date stamps popping up around Shanghai – with most really old buildings being trashed one answer is to slap some fake date stamps on the not quite so old. Yunnan Road is a prime example of this and several buildings have done this – one from the late 1990s even stamping itself 1887 (most unlikely for a eight storey building!!). This seems to have happened following the renovation and reopening of the old Great World on the corner of Xizang Road (Thibet Road) and Yanan Road (Avenue Edward VII) last year. The area behind (to the east) of the Great World, though Frenchtown, was once a warren of mostly Chinese-run and patronised flop houses, brothels and various nefarious places that cadged of the crowds looking for a good time at the Great World.
All very interesting and a great little area between Yanan and Jingling (Rue du Consulat). But, this building on the corner of Yunnan Road South (Rue Palikao) and Ninghai Road East (Weikwei Road) is not from 1921 as far as I know. So explorer of Shanghai beware!
BTW: tomorrow – the top working girl shag pads of the old Great World exposed!! (felt a tabloid urge come upon me)
Some very iffy stained glass as well!
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