Kowloon Walled City
Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 3:46 pm




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The part is out by the airport, right?Dave Chesser wrote:It's still pretty densely populated. I ended up staying in a motel there by accident. There's a memorial in a nearby park and most of the people still live and work in the area so it still has some of the flavor. LOTS of dentists there for some reason, if I remember correctly.
Holy shit Dave, that must have been crazy. Helluva lot different than even accidentally getting a hotel in East St. Louis vs St. Louis.Dave Chesser wrote:It's still pretty densely populated. I ended up staying in a motel there by accident. There's a memorial in a nearby park and most of the people still live and work in the area so it still has some of the flavor. LOTS of dentists there for some reason, if I remember correctly.
Looks like I can start my new career with a pair of pliers and a plane ticket.By the early 1980s it was notorious for brothels, casinos, cocaine parlours and opium dens. It was also famous for food courts which would serve up dog meat and had a number of unscrupulous dentists who could escape prosecution if anything went wrong with their patients.
Indeed. Stories from Hong Kong in the late 80s are really cool. I found the area on Google Maps and have been there - it has been completely razed and is fairly sterile now. I want to hear more about what it was like before they tore it down.Bedlam 1946 wrote: Holy shit Dave, that must have been crazy. Helluva lot different than even accidentally getting a hotel in East St. Louis vs St. Louis.