Shanghai Undergoing Many and Rapid Building Changes On Tuesday and the day before with the opening of-most of Shanghai's schools for foreign children, marked the.true finish of the long summer holidays; and by now most pleasure-seekers from this _port must have returned or be, at any rate, on the eve of doing so. When these late-comers do return, however, they will surely agree with those already back that Shanghai seems to be the most changeable port in the world,—a two or three months' absence.and when one returns one finds flat, level ground where once buildings stood, erections on ground where before there were none and even some of the best-known shops seem to have spirited themselves away.
Foremost among these will 0 the wisp shops is that of Messrs. J. Llewellyn, for, in place of the familiar doorway and windows, one now finds a solid boarding and a little notice to say that the chemist has removed elsewhere, It is a little disconcerting but the truth is that Llewellyn's, along with—the shops once held by Toyo Mural ind the Palace Tobacco Store have already being torn down to make room for the promised alterations to the Palace Hotel that were described in these columns a little while ago.
Among other vanished buildings! are the two eldest on the Bund, this side of Avenue Edward VII, namely, Banque Belge pour I'Etré ger and the Netherlands Trading Ca. which formerly filled the block between Nanking Road and Jinkee Road. Many buildings behind these two hate also been torn down, as far as the Pagoda Shop on the Nanking Road and Stock and Sharebrokers' Association on Jinkee Road. Soon the work of putting up the new building will begin and it hoped that in February, 1928 the new shops, officers and flats will be The chief} ling will be the described Inst, year when Messrs, Sassoon decided to pull down the old buildings, will enable the enthusiastic shopper to it twenty different shops without once setting foot in the street, Changes Out West Grext changes are also being! wrought on Avenue Edward VII where among. other alterations a large block of Chinese houses has been pulled down, and in the French Concession, near the new Frerch Club, there is a lot of land being! developed, and flats and houses being put up. Love Lane has also changed somewhat, and an enor-metis number of new modern Chinese shops have sprung up. In fact, Imost everywhere shops and flats are being put up as fast as the builders can build them, There are changes also to be noted all along the Nanking Road; some shops, such as Took How Kung, having smartened their appearance, and others having changed altogether, The Olympic Theatre is an important building among those that have been. having their looks improved, and when this cinema opens fence more towards the end of this month it will Be one of the finest in the Far East, There are, of course, many other! important changes in Shanghai which will be noted by those of observant of eye, but the casual,
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