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TAIPEI AIR STATION |
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The market was a place of strong smells, for example, from the fish we see here as we walk by. However, the stand with the most difficult odor sold hundred-year eggs. Ca. April 1959. |
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Red carts laden with wedding gifts are carted through a downtown Hsinchu street, ca 1958-1959. The brown building on the right is the Bank of Land and the building next door is a jewelry store, (although the term literally translated from Chinese is “silver store”), which closed sometime prior to 1986. Thanks to Juju Wang for interviewing citizens to research this photo for this facts. |
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Here is the same scene taken by Juju Wang in 2006. You can see that the façade of the old jewelry store building is still recognizable (behind the pink Hello Kitty sign). |
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This biscuit man had his shop about a quarter mile south of the MAAG Housing Compound, ca. 1958-1959. Much later it and other shops were replaced with a park. |
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A shoe merchant, circa 1959. Incidentally, under the boy’s nose (barely detectable at this resolution) is the purple hint of a treatment for impetigo infections, probably gentian violet. Impetigo was common, and often you’d see someone with the something purple painted on their skin, especially the legs. Roy successfully treated his son Brian with the purple stuff when he got impetigo on his leg. |