Hong Kong 1968

My father shot super 8mm film of Hong Kong while his ship, the USS Bennington (CVS 20), was in port during September of 1968.
The film had been kept in a damp environment and was coated with a thick layer of mould and was then cleaned and scanned in. Minimal processing was done, although some repetitive or blurry scenes were cut.

[@jmylee]

thanks for the video. I am a HongKonger. By the time I was 14...I may see your father and his team on the street of Hong Kong.

[@susanchan250]

I am a HongKonger born in 1968...and find my old home in your video....thanks for preserving the good old days of HK.

[@Amidat]

you mean the days when Hong Kong people who weren't white were restricted from even going to certain areas?

[@housekeeper1349]

I was in Middle School in Hong Kong 1968. Still remember those U. S,. warships came to Victoria Harbour. for R & R, Immigrant to U. S. in 1969. Join the U S Navy in 1973. A Westpac tour with my ship U S S Richard S. Edwards (DD-950) in 1974.

[@1khs883]

LOVE this .... im a Hong Konger and ive not seen this before! Thank you!

[@ww89]

Hong Kong 1968 in color! Thanks so much!

[@iamjimfan]

Thank you very much. Hong Kong used to be such a great place. Heaven bless Hong Kong.

[@frankcafarella3400]

Thanks for sharing. How I miss those days!

[@sfbluedevil8588]

Thank you very much for this beautiful video. It brought back lot of my childhood memories in the early 60’

[@user-vl6iv3kp3k]

Happy childhood memories keep piling in . I am from British HK. Alan L an ex British soldier I met in my late dad's LTC home 's face lit up first day of our encounter. Alan was in HK much before my time in a barracks in Sumsuipo深水涉。 An old man in wheelchair heavily diabetic Alan recounted his young happy days. World of Susie Wong. His tattoos his jade necklace. I miss Alan .

[@GARYINLEEDS]

My Father was station there 1960/2. He died in 1966 of lung cancer. Thanks.

[@davewong4834]

A relative was in the US Marine, he came to visit us, spent half the day with our family, and brought me the most expensive electric toy car at the Tsimshatsui toy store. That was in the early 60s.

[@user-vl6iv3kp3k]

To Dave Wong: Lucky you! I remember eating at the Jumbo floating restaurant once courtesy of some distant relative visit from LA. Notice that the servers in the video were all male young men. Interesting isn't it. The restaurant scene took a U turn in the last years eg in my late dad's Fanling粉嶺 (where he was school principal for years and everyone knew him)the servers were all Mainlanders immigrant. No more 新界人。Likewise no shop keeper seemed to be able to converse functionally in English. This is Tsimshatsui尖沙咀 ! A statement of fact A personal observation. HK the HK I cherished only exist in my heart.

[@davewong4834]

@@user-vl6iv3kp3k All we can do is just to treasure these wonderful memories from the bygone years.

[@listhk8361]

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[@gochigo]

The magic of film? or whatever the medium they used for recording; the colour was so vibrant. Thank you very much.

[@LeonardBottleman]

The film stock was Kodak Kodachrome, which was known for its vibrant colors that held up over time (in this case over 50 years).

[@joecchin6822]

Thanks for sharing. I was very young then but I can recognise all the locations in the film.

[@mokseuiyau]

無限懷念我們的舊香港⋯！

[@LeonardBottleman]

The film certainly shows a bygone era.

[@user-vl6iv3kp3k]

I feel the same.美好的回憶 永藏心間 my favorite memory bank. Untouchable.Non erasable. My memory. My life.

[@moeejanice]

Salute to your Father and You, thank you indeed!

[@williamlee702]

Mr. Bottleman, sir, can't thank you enough,

[@pjlewis177]

So miss all the past life very much about old Hong Kong

[@richardnystrom234]

It is a very precious film. Thanks a lot.

[@jj963963jj]

Thank you to share the precious clips of HK scenes in the late 60s which bring back my memories. I lived in Wanchai and as a kid was very font of viewing carriers and destroyers in Victoria Harbour. All those sailors with fancy tattoos wandering around bars, MP guarded in pair ......... 😊

[@user-vl6iv3kp3k]

Hello j Wong . Me too! Fleming Rd 菲林明道As a very young child I remember climbing on the couch watching mom walking towards the ferry terminal taking the ferry to attend work. The sound of the tram running on track still resonates.

[@NOLIBERALBIAS]

Wanchai I was there

[@ray-charc3131]

Wanchai, my secondary school there at 70's. ...Sailors, bars...No way now. I think they like to be there as well as we do like them there.

[@hiroogarden1917]

Yes, bars with black curtains in the front with two men sitting as guardman, sometimes women with heavy makeups holding handbags with big flowers on their heads, standing around

[@AndyF.-kq1cq]

I was six years old in 1968, I was born in Hong Kong. She was a peace place under British Hong Kong Government.

[@user-vl6iv3kp3k]

Wow. Congrats Leonard. This 1968 HK video continues to gain momentums and rave review. Lovely.

[@alfong8279]

Very good video of Hong Kong of yore, thanks!

[@connorxiaoyang878]

that is awesome video, thanks!

[@namaekako302]

Thanks for sharing! Those good old days!

[@callmebackfriday2]

Thanks for the video. Bring back lot of memories when I was a kid in Hong Kong.

[@raymondluk4620]

The first time I saw the USS BENNINGTON anchoring in the Victoria Harbour was in December 1958(around Christmas Holiday) on Hong Kong when I was still a little boy. The flight deck was packed with PantherJets and Skyraiders quite a gorgeous sight I still remember. In the sixties I visited USS OKLAHOMA CITY USS PROVIDENCE flagship of The Seventh Fleet. Impression is still deep

[@AndreyPurtov]

Interesting footage from interesting breathtaking place 👍

[@aliceyuen135]

Precious. Thank you very much.

[@yellowwducky]

Wow, if I didn't know better that is 28 Barker Road at the 18 second mark in the center; I lived there eons ago (and it has now been torn down). This is incredible footage, thanks so much for posting!

[@johnnyngai8067]

Thanks for a historical HK video.

[@rightleft4455]

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[@RAYDUM]

living in a falling city, watching a rising city recording. sad. 2021 hk people

[@yukchingchoy9077]

🥺😥😢😭❗

[@mokseuiyau]

Thank you very much !!!

[@user-vl6iv3kp3k]

HK it was . The British HK that I grew up. Nostalgic. Everything is the way it used to be the way I remember. Thank you for preserving and sharing history. Priceless video. Borrowed time. Borrowed place. There is only one HK. Nowhere in the world could it be 'cloned'. I dearly miss the 60s 70s HK.

[@vc4510]

No. Not very thing. Very little things.

[@rightleft4455]

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[@echan275]

Thanks Leonard, my family left HK for Boston (where my great grandfather first set foot in the US) in January 1969. I lived in HongKong again from 2018-2020 after retirement. I remember the US arm forces took breaks from Vietnam to HK.

[@Blitz9H]

Welcome home. Thank you. Thank you for the video. My dad was there too on another aircraft carrier.

[@LeonardBottleman]

Which carrier, and do you recall the year?

[@Blitz9H]

@@LeonardBottleman Oriskany in 1966 and 1967. He spent time on the Ticonderoga also.

[@user-vl6iv3kp3k]

My late uncle owned Wings Tailor永時洋服 in Chungking Manson重慶大廈 Tsimshatsui 尖沙咀 Specialised in 3 day ready tailored made shirt suit. Clientele mostly US Marines! I still remember the well dressed male 'guides' that he hired soliciting business outside the Manson, and the atelier I once visited in the upper floors of the same building. Vietnam war was at it's peak. Business was brisk.

[@rightleft4455]

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[@davewong4834]

My classmate lived in that building. I have visited him many many times. 40 + yrs later, I went back to visit, things are no longer the same. Especially after 2019. All it becomes is a third-class police state.

[@user-vl6iv3kp3k]

@@davewong4834 wow good for you. Thank you for sharing. Very true. My cousin a long time NewYorker did not have the gut to venture into Chungking Manson during her HK visits the place where she used to work every day at her dad's tailor shop!

[@davewong4834]

@@user-vl6iv3kp3k I was shocked when I walked down from my hotel facing this iconic building for the first time in decades. I might have passed by your dad's store many many times back in the 60s, at the height of the Vietnam war.

[@szehui9841]

Thank you

[@aatusc]

Thanks for the upload. The past is gone and the future is doomed...HK is now not the same HK we know as before. I am a HKer and I will always love HK.

[@rightleft4455]

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[@royfung888]

Do you know the British-Hong Kong government only aims at the interests of the British?

[@DavidLee-lh5ox]

Correct, Hong Kong is no longer the same ever since those so called HongKonger (in reality rioters) trashed HK in 2019.

[@sogreatray]

Awesome footage. The Chinese to the north are undergoing a cultural revolution. HK was quite a sanctuary.

[@user-vl6iv3kp3k]

Amen

[@listhk8361]

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[@kniger]

It was beautiful

[@fungwong5548]

thanks for uploading this video to recall my memory of the spectacular view of the old Hong Kong. Those were the good old days in Hong Kong, though we are poor. We are happy to live our own lives without any fears and control from the dictatorship.

[@user-vl6iv3kp3k]

1968 was the year with 'mass emigration' . Many people decided to leave HK due to the 1967 riot. 危機 opportunity in a crisis. As a result I managed to get into a KEY Anglican Girl school as 插班生. My whole life is rewritten. I owe everything I now own to the group of dedicated teachers (and my late parents) at HYS.

[@sidharthasidhartha5184]

HYS=協恩中學

[@jkaposi]

Great film. Would love to see more flight ops footage. Former blue shirt here.

[@song1861]

HK was so advanced back in the day..

[@wangwang2048]

This 3 of them was Served on ATV, and TVB. But so sadness to hearing that 3 of them was Successively Passed away. But Granny Kam (Lee Heung Kam) will always in my memorized .

[@rightleft4455]

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[@user-vl6iv3kp3k]

Leonard I am terribly sorry that this beautiful video that you uploaded for us ex British Hong Kongers got " trolled":{ on the other hand I am happy that your video got attention:) Lovely

[@LeonardBottleman]

Trolls are part of the Internet experience is seems.

[@Dept246]

Internet troll definition “to antagonize (others) online by deliberately posting inflammatory, irrelevant, or offensive comments or other disruptive content”. Just because a person has a difference in opinion does not make him a troll.

[@hiks1969]

Amazing

[@MayMay-fe2ki]

I have nothing to say but THANKS TO ROBERT BOTTLEMAN, USS Bennington for this record film as I was only 6 years old boy at that moment. All such memories of 1960's inside my brain only and I can't express those historical environments in Hong Kong to my daughters ( i.e. new generation). Thanks for your givings.

[@nunaworld]

THX A LOT.

[@user-vl6iv3kp3k]

I miss dearly the salty' aroma ' of Victoria harbor, the blue sky white clouds. I used to day dream about the world outside HK. any comparable? No. I don't think so. I can boast that there isn't. Monte Carlo? No way. Tokyo?San Francisco no? 鐵塔靈魂Sam Hui was so right Only once in a Dover Calais crossing did I smell the sea again..and all my HK childhood memories came back! La Mer..

[@wangwang2048]

Thank you for showing us. I don't know how long do you lived in Hong Kong, but I was born after 12 years of this Hong Kong had changed a lot , there are lot of buildings and Towers. The Mini Palace Museum from Beijing but built in the West Kowloon will also open in November 2021. Hong Kong is returning to what it was like before the social movement. If you are in a foreign country? Hong Kong welcomes you back anytime.

[@keithkululu2]

returning before?? HK is not colourful anymore, destroyed by the Chinese govt.

[@kevinlee9079]

@@keithkululu2 Keith Tse is absolutely correct. HK is game over now because of CCP

[@mcmultiplechoice2931]

well thank you for the offer, but please keep that offer to yourself, I don't want a free trip to the Chinese court because I am a foreigner and your government can accuse and then take me for anything if things turn sour. Maybe you should go to tiktok and invite your mainland Chinese friends instead.

[@technocrat711]

A lot of new high rises have been added obscure old HK.... Enjoyed it.

[@user-vl6iv3kp3k]

"I am from British HK" I proudly announced to a passerby woman on our Covid neighborhood walk. ' nei ho' a manderin greeting to me.' I teach ESL Many of my students from China ' 'sorry I don't speak Mandarin. I am from British HK' I replied. (Meaning I speak English longer than you. I could be older than you. But your age showed) ' then it's hello too' she responded. ' with a British accent' I replied without turning my head. By this time we already passed. Subsconcious bias. Funny thing I fooled one ex Brit HK colleagues 'Ah you read Chinese? ' I smatter in six languages hahaha( and still learning English . There are many levels to a foreign language) I could tell from the look whether a east Indian here is a FOB or 2n generation or from Kenya ex brit colony without them opening up their mouth. Me? Your ESL student ilk? I guess I am generic a good spy material, pondering my next career move!!

[@hkhkhk2019]

interesting...never thought there were already so many buildings in Hong Kong so many years ago

[@carlaalmaraz4481]

Great job on the editing!! I would sure be cool to see a video of the same scenes now. How long was your dad in the Navy?

[@LeonardBottleman]

Thanks. My father enlisted in the early 1950s and served in both the Korean and Vietnam wars. He retired some time in the 1980s. He served most of his time in the Pacific, and moved to the Atlantic in 1969, some time after reaching E9.

[@rightleft4455]

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[@user-vl6iv3kp3k]

Ah Leonard Lowoo 羅湖落馬洲 the' border' , a must see lookout for foreign tourist into then sleepy rural Shenzhen深圳(deep furrow in a field) is missing from the footage. Beyond repair perhaps? Lowoo was liken to Dandong Liaoning丹東遼寧 that borders n Korea by a river 鴨綠江. Kim travelled in his train across that river in his china visit, I believe.

[@sidharthasidhartha5184]

4:47 Tai Pak Floating Restaurant was part of the Jumbo Kingdom.

[@kwanglam]

👍well done

[@johnmmm]

Hong Kong was the PEARL of the Orient.

[@watkin9284]

いや、素晴しい、６０年代の香港、ノヴァのようだった。香港頑張れ、もう一度輝いてください。

[@kaifailo1452]

Western navy tourists admired & spared the scenic spots of Hong Kong more than the Hong Kong people themselves.

[@jiangjiang7402]

In fact it is unfair to state that, at that time HK is still quite poor and even camera is luxurious merchandise, so not many films/movies coming out from local HKers.

[@kaifailo1452]

@@jiangjiang7402 If you go to Tiger Balm Garden again,you will be quite astonished that the man made hilly garden & the white tower had been removed and they were given way to the Ransdale Garden,leaving only the main building about 1/5 the original garden's area.Moreover,there were still many local people who could own a private car,needless to say about movie's camera.

[@NOLIBERALBIAS]

It is sad that at the same time people in Vietnam were dying and lost their family and places to live. Tragic

[@LeonardBottleman]

Yes. This was one of the Bennington's ports of call on it' Vietnam tour of duty. The ship and crew spent most of its time during the war in the coastal waters of Vietnam.

[@user-vl6iv3kp3k]

Yep. "b52 bombers this and that..." I recall, the most popular radio news headlines, in 60s 70s HK. Hindsight US lives lost , I think, sadly for nothing! Blame it on the incorrect intelligence at the time. Fortunately the Vietnamese don't seem to bear grundge against the American. Money talks. My colleague's late hubby a veteran visited Vietnam in his later years with a now 'full size body' attempted to pass through the narrow underground tunnels that were built and used by the Viet 共!

[@user-vl6iv3kp3k]

I recall that day the fall of Saigon so well. As a pre teen I sensed that the days were numbered. The s Vietnamese ( like the Afghans) jammed up the US embassy. US aircraft leaving with loads of babies orphans so so sad.I trust that they are all doing well in the US

[@user-vl6iv3kp3k]

And I recall the boat people, mostly ethnic Chinese, floating in the sea. They were 'locked up' in camps in HK. The' cream' were scooped up fast by the west Yep. None of those I met in my workplace here ever ever return to visit Vietnam. The unspeakable must have happened on these migrant boats. Traumatic experience that may have haunted their life forever. War is horrible. Covid , is relatively, nothing.

[@NOLIBERALBIAS]

@@LeonardBottleman By no mean, it is a great video or short film from that period of time. Thank you for sharing this R&R film.

[@msarkanyrend7216]

Thank you. Can’t imagine China’s reaction if there were that many US navy walking around Hong Kong in post handover Hong Kong.

[@alexlo7708]

Its still OK whenever you're real tourist. Not the extremist.

[@joecchin6822]

There were many US Navy port visits since the turnover. Only until recently ~2019? China banned the port visits.

[@alexlo7708]

@@joecchin6822 Yes, it stop since Trump +US deep state start attacking China policy.

[@listhk8361]

@@alexlo7708 日佔時期結束後香港歷任港督和特首列表 (1945 - 2021) kzbin.info/www/bejne/q6SmipytZ9aaeNU 香港各區人口數目及各區面積列表 (2020年9月) kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnulfYStmMigqNE

[@user-vl6iv3kp3k]

狮子山精神？1968HK I used to stare at Lion Rock Mountain every day in HYS primary our window opened up north on 天光道。Lion Rock was a fascinating and imposing view, varied with time of the day and season. The 1930 art deco style 2 storey school building has since been replaced with a non descriptive high rise school building. The motor cycle centre across stayed.

[@user-vl6iv3kp3k]

More on food 1968HK from the eyes of a middle class little girl. I dreamed of western food. Mom loves having a loaf of white bread（ brown buns occasionally I now learn it's zero wheat but brown color ing） sliced in Cherrikoff 車厘歌夫. My little eyes would fixate upon the huge red lifeless lobster big cheese block and ham in the display fridge. Mom would make comment like 'they are not good for you' translated to' we can not afford it.' Maybe I never ask. Why bother! I was grateful that my parents provide enough for me( but I did check if the lobster was still around upon my every visit)

[@user-vl6iv3kp3k]

The 1968 train from Tsimshatsui Kowloon to the New Territories was indeed a 'slow train to China', literally and figuratively! I remember sitting upright on the hard bench in an otherwise empty car. Very few people would take that train then . No need. NT was a big farmland inhabited by NT natives the Pangs of Fanling ...my late dad would pull down the windows in anticipation of the coal droplets passing through the tunnels landing on your nose(burning coal smell riding on the cog train climbing up Mt Washington in Vermont!) .too heavy a job for a mini me. The car would stop oops..foul smell. Pig nose poking out from across the window.yep pig car from china to the slaughter house in HK to go on my plate. As Chinese we eat tongue and cheek( the Italian fancy too) and nuckle. But the nose? No

[@listhk8361]

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[@rexco2700]

The Tiger Balm Garden!

[@user-kw6vl1ox6r]

我媽媽的年代吧… 那時候我知道大部份人家裡電視機還是用黑白 且少數人擁有

[@LeonardBottleman]

Our family only had a black and white television set at this time as well.

[@hermanchoi3965]

I live in Aberdeen when I was young.

[@yukchingchoy9077]

Me too!

[@manwing1597]

5:39 幾十年前航母已有彈射系統

[@LeonardBottleman]

The Bennington was an Essex class carrier from World War II and it underwent a number of refits over the many years it was in service, including the addition of a catapult system.

[@knwong4458]

I was a 9-year-old boy in 1968 and I vaguely remember some of these US aircraft carriers visiting HK. I believe Essex class carriers were all decommissioned in the 1970s. After that the carriers visiting HK, such as Enterprise and Midway, were all bigger. I also remember an Essex class carrier Hornet was still used in the 70s to retrieve the space capsules for the Apollo missions.

[@SJ-xm8po]

Golden days in Hong Kong where everyone was happy and thriving with joy. There were opportunities everywhere .

[@Amidat]

except not true... not everyone was happy and thriving... that's a myth

[@benjaminhill2836]

Siberian Fur Store building still exists today.

[@AliensKillDevils.]

Enjoy Sunshine and Please be Vegan🥬🥗🌽🥕🥦🥥🥑🍓🍇🍌🍎🍐🍑🥭🍅🥒🍉❤️🌞🌈👼❤️🏖

[@ryunocoser]

Some Hong Kongers were from Guangxi during 60s, they escaped from the communist's rule. It feels lucky they are living under British rule and CCP can't do shit against them.

[@OvenZheng]

被殖民心态

[@chikinli1944]

當時英國著名公司RB來港，而鴨脷洲在78年後建成大橋！

[@marlbankian]

Interesting

[@user-vl6iv3kp3k]

I need to say that looking back at British HK, I now finally agreed with my secondary teacher's view. Be proud of British HK . Hey inter branch banking was unheard of in 1979 Toronto!! These years I found HK people abroad relatively competitive and adaptive . We tend to conduct our thinking in a 'non conventional' way aka outside the box . We have a rather 'balanced' world view, HK a world class Cosmo exposed us to the most IN Things . We grew up seeing Rolex Cartier ad Jaguar ( my teacher drove one to school) Rolls Royce not an uncommon sight. No big deal. Alain Delon hit man movie new every week. Yves Montand's Z. The French new wave movement. Bee Gees. ABBA Cliff Richard. Tom Jones. Candice Bergen. Dr. Zhivago. Sound of music. Love story. A man and a woman. Oliver Twist. Adam's Family Bewitched 歡喜冤家 Family Affairs uncle Bill (ah NYC apt paper grocery bags) Macmillan and wife ( my first concept of Halloween) Columbo Next came japanese pop二人世界 'New' Money cannot buy pop history. 'New' Money cannot buy etiquette. C'est tout、

[@AmelieZh]

Be proud of British HK.? Omg

[@user-vl6iv3kp3k]

Funny thing it was this same period of time that our Pisano across the border under gone the so called Cultural Revolution. Time was really tough there. I remember my late aunt wearing 7 layers of clothing's, carried loads of cooking oil etc to visit her relatives behind the iron curtain, returning to HK stripped down to an essential one layer. That was then.

[@user-vl6iv3kp3k]

It's not uncommon to hear refugees swimming from the neighbouring northern country during the nights, with the mere aid of old car tyres, to escape the eternal distitute. Dad once gave food and clothing to two who knocked at the school dorm door. Occasionally you hear news of some human body parts floating in the sea , suggesting the other parts fallen victim to the shark！Those who made it were real fortunate. My maternal aunt has three of her nephews swam to HK and 'made' it in the States

[@vc4510]

Graduated from PUI CHING .

[@2mikelim]

Can't see much on super 8... woolly images. It'd be great on 16mm but at bigger cost and weight of cam. Nothing like today when we can film HD on our phones

[@LeonardBottleman]

Yes, my father did not have a lot of spare cash and a super 8 was what he could afford at the time. He splurged and used Kodachrome for this footage. I have other film he shot on Ektachrome from around the same time and it has faded badly over the years.

[@alexlo7708]

It seems too modern than was in 1968.

[@wingkaykeung1697]

👍

[@jagdpanther2224]

@5:21 These are S2 anti submarine planes!

[@LeonardBottleman]

Yes, the Bennington was refitted to be an anti submarine carrier for Vietnam. My father worked on the avionics for these planes.

[@bmm8516]

Thx for sharing the good old days of HK. HK is now a police state.

[@ebtourbillon]

its hk? i dont recognize

[@LeonardBottleman]

Things have certainly changed. I was 8 years old when my father filmed this, but I never had the opportunity to visit Hong Kong myself. I do recall when he returned from this WestPac tour that he had found memories of Hong Kong and its people.

[@Krush0-0]

Back then Mainland was deep in slump.

[@mjamesk2499]

回歸後美鑑訪港已成絕響 蘓絲黃的世界不會重現 完

[@user-vl6iv3kp3k]

Agreed. World of Susie Wong. William Holden was already an old man then. Ah! Golden age of Hollywood Movie, cinema going was my late parents's past time. A relief from the every day hard working life. YET there was hope for a better future。 只要你肯捱

[@DavidLee-lh5ox]

當年灣仔酒吧區那種烏煙瘴氣@.@……我寧願一世也不重現 完

[@DavidLee-lh5ox]

@M James K BTW, 回歸後真的連一艘美國戰艦都沒有到訪過香港？？？ 別胡說八道好嗎？

[@user-vl6iv3kp3k]

Ah! My 1968 HK everyday staples: poultry was relatively expensive, beef in particular ( a whole sale monopoly I later learnt) seafood in abundance and affordable, thanks to our then large fishing community水上人家 our' lockup northern paisano' the non depleted fish stock. Supply over demand. Every day we had two dishes fish for sure steam or pan fry the second dish stir fry fresh veggies from NT wow I could still remember how fresh very thing taste. We had deep sea fish like 紅衫 碼頭 膠魚 獅頭魚 白䱽仔 saw law 魚湯 yum . Stir fry菜芯with squid or small shrimp. Braised octopus and pork belly on special occasion. Braised male carp 煀公鯉on mid Autumn festival dad's speciality。 Clay pot frog rice 田鷄煲 in the winter. Well no more. We now have tasteless jumbo shrimp and high end fish 筍殼that cost Cad$ 44/lb eating out a little girl's memory of 1968 British HK.

[@user-vl6iv3kp3k]

1968 was a better year than 1967, the year of the Riot. I recalled having to leave school early one day, took a minibus instead of the regular bus , detoured and got dropped off at the other side of home. A 'mob' gathered at 裕華左敦道彌敦道交界tear gas and all that. I was not afraid. Too young.

[@user-vl6iv3kp3k]

I told my Canadian colleagues here that it is my personal experience that the Brits was arguably the best coloniser（sorry . Compared to the French the Portuguese the Spanish) The British education system, the rule of law the upward social Mobility made possible by education. My many grass roots classmate made it to HKU. Yep. We worked hard at school. We never judge each other by where they lived nor how much their parents made. Bullying? unheard of.

[@LeonardBottleman]

This comment reminds me of a famous Monty Python scene: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5SaeaCep8yHq7M

[@tony4887]

Talking like a real slave, the Brits love people like u.

[@user-vl6iv3kp3k]

@@LeonardBottleman good morning and thank you Leonard. Haha John Cleese . Fawlty Towers my favorite. Incidentally I am not the only one reminiscing the Brits system hubby's India born colleague, a Sik yet Brit Gent persona commented that the Brits should never have left India!! Quoted.

[@DavidLee-lh5ox]

YEAH! 60's to early70's....serious & systemic corruption in HK Disciplinary Force's, white supremacists(racism) beat the shit out of HKer face by White British Police Officer for no reason.....etc. Never heard of bullying in 60's? or you just play dumb!?!? British was arguably the best coloniser!!!!　Ha Ha. you must be joking.

[@HY-ix2ch]

@@tony4887 unfortunately there are a lot like him. They even think their colonial masters' farts are fragrant, which is how Hong Kong really got it's name.

[@user-vl6iv3kp3k]

The Tiger Balm Villa 胡文虎 胡仙haydays of the 星島news paper empire. Mom and dad never bothered to take me to the Villa . The 18 levels of hell and eternal punishment depicted apparently scared a lot out of my older siblings. 一個善惡分明的年代

[@AmelieZh]

This was the prime back in those days, but HK will be better than ever.

[@karl5173]

What are you talking about? Since when were you here?

[@chechungkwan713]

As time passes and the communist's growing influence this type of memorial video or footage is not easy to locate 😢

[@OvenZheng]

你们喜欢被殖民？

[@michaelgermania8370]

Question: HK enjoy free election at this moment?

[@user-vl6iv3kp3k]

It's remembrance day here Nov 11 11am. Little did I know later that the Canadian 'boys' from Winnipeg lost their lives defending British HK close to Christmas. A memorial sat unnoticed in a busy corner of 深水涉I believe. No one told us kids then. Rest assured that they will not be forgotten.

[@kungshih3881]

公石

[@user-vl6iv3kp3k]

If you've not from British HK you're simply not qualified to be on the Comment panel:> May I humbly ask What is your personal experience, if any?

[@user-vl6iv3kp3k]

Well 1968 HK. Let's fast forward to 1970s HK . One day my English teacher Mrs Fang announced that she was disappointed in me. What did I do wrong? I dream of studying in sunny California USC UCLA one day( a dream indeed not with my late parents meagre salary) ' I thought you would be eying the ivy leaguer Yale Harvard Columbia MIT .." thank you for bestowing on me. I just love surfing USA the red tile roof the palm trees the beaches my Californian dream. I was a kid

[@user-vl6iv3kp3k]

Poppy. Everyone should know what a poppy stands for. Not really. I recalled vividly a 10 year old boy approached the cashier in Valumart with his granny behind demanding a poppy . Yep. Whose' fault' is this? The teacher ? The family? 慌死執輸 Our piaisno north of British HK who were ' locked up' for years behind the iron curtain. No poppy concept.

[@waikinngai3794]

光榮的 英國香港