Where’s Peter Pan on the Avenue Joffre?

I’ve posted before about the Peter Pan Shop on Avenue Joffre (now Huai Hai Road) in Frenchtown that remained for many decades in so many young Shanghailanders minds as the most wonderful toy shop in Shanghai. It was run by two lovely White Russian Jewish ladies. But I’ve posted again as someone told me a nice anecdote about the shop the other day…

Chinese sales people from toy companies, publishers and curio dealers would turn up at the store looking to sell their wares into the store….they would invariably ask to speak to Mr Pan! JM Barrie’s mischievous little boy who never ages but can fly was rather unknown to them sadly!