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Image ID34439
TitleDouble-decker bus advertising "Aspro" on Nanking Road in the 1930s
Year1930
Date1930
Estimated date1930
Estimated period1930-1937
LocationShanghai IS
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Street view of Nanking Road. The now famous Nanjing Road was initially a smal street called Garden Lane or Park Land, which connected the Bund with the First House Racecourse.

Nanjing Road in 1930. The famous shops gathered together and the stores stood in great numvers with a large numver of customers visiting, so the traffic was busy. Here had been the most important commercial road in old Shanghai.

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Apart from Aspro, other brandnames and products are legible and advertised through various medias (shopsigns, neon lights): China Hand Work Co. (vertical shop sign on the right), Jennny's (right), B.B. (back), ... Grah & Co. (left). The distinctive silhouette of the Cathay Hotel emerged in the background (left).

Source: Postcard bought in Shanghai (personal collection), available in two distinct collections entitled "Old Shanghai."

Keyword(s) [en]autobus ; double-decker ; aspro ; medicine ; textile ; shopsign ; vertical ; horizontal ; roof ; cathay ; hotel ; tramway ; trolley ; automobile ; car ; pedestrian ; man ; hat ; light ; neon
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District NameInternational Settlement - Central - Central
District typecommercial
SectorB 2, H 1
Type of mediumSign/Signboard, Transportation device
Street 1Nanjing Road
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LanguageChinese, English
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