Koon Chung Theatre ( Theater was used actually) 1931-39 on 60, Jordan Road, corner Canton Road. But another version is emphasised as it was located on Jordan Road x Woosung Street, but still No. 60, Jordan Road. The first mentioned location was much convincing.
Sun Po ( Newport) Theatre, Formerly named as Kum Sing ( Empire Cinema) shouldn’t have been included surrounding Jordan, mate, as it was located corner Soy x Fa Yuen Street, Mongkok. Thanks.
38, Kwun Chung Street? But it’s widely known ‘ Universal’ ( Man Lok) Theatre ( 1967-95) was located at 50A, Bowring Street, possibly similar to Shanghai theatre which was situated corner of Austin Rd. & Shanghai Street with 2 street numbers.
Shanghai Theatre ( 1994-1998). 1, Shanghai Street or 23, Austin Road, Yau Ma Tei. Its dual addresses put it squarely at the northwest corner of the intersection of Shanghai St. and Austin Rd. Seating capacity 130. Info from gwulo, thanks.
Have you ever heard a guy’s nickname as ‘ GWAI GUR POON LAM’ ( Ghost-leg Poon Lam), the big brother of that district, also accompanied by the soccer stars in 60’s, Chow brothers. widely called ‘ elder and younger PSYCHOS. ( Dai Sai Song).
Funny enough, when the Chow Brothers played for Yuen Long football club, Ah Gor said ‘delay no more’ to younger brother, for why didn’t pass the ball to him at the corner spot, and little brother responded ‘ delay no more’ , I was being marked tightly by the defenders, they frequently mentioned their beloved Mum with each other, and the watchers at ‘Fa Hui Pitch’ laughing loudly, then big brother shouted with the same 4 words to us, that was fun other than watching the match . * Teammates included Chan Charn-Lam, ‘ BA LA DA’ Wong Chi-Kwong, Tsui Pak-Lit…Goalie was possibly either ‘ Sau Nga Chai’ Mok Siu-Lam or nicknamed ‘ Indonesian Teddy Boy, =YAN NAY FEI’ Kwok Tak-Sin.
@@mingleung1193 Agree, Ming. Those were the glorious days of HK football without a doubt. The first time I watched live 1st division football match was SCAA ( Nam Wah) vs Sing Tao ( Jet planes) in 1963 at Government Stadium in Caroline Hill as my colleague was SCAA’s centre back Cheng Yun-Yu’s classmate and also born and raised in ‘Lin Fa Dei of 18 Heung, Yuen Long. Nowadays, I meet ‘Dai Gor Yu’ and say hi quite often in Sydney suburb since he’d retired from a long time job at Qantas 20 years ago. Btw, I was born in 11/ 1951. All the best!
It was an open secret in the early 60’s, that you only spent $5. extra then ‘invited’ a boat girl, or being touted actually, (sorry, that was the facts) to sit next to you during the After Work Movie ( Kung Yu Cheung) at $5.30pm in Kam Wah Theatre. Canton Rd. Yau Ma Tei. * I wasn’t one of them , and was a shy boy.
