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Inside the Kowloon Walled City where 50K residents eked out a grimy living...(Lots of Pics@ link)
Daily Mail ^
| May 05, 2012
| Pamela Owen
Posted on 09/07/2014 5:29:34 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom
Looks homey .../ S
If you are a rodent...
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posted on
09/07/2014 6:32:11 AM PDT
by
Popman
(Jesus Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
To: Uncle Lonny
Thanks for first-hand account.
To: Uncle Lonny
Great I just searched on Google.
It looks like the Chungking Mansions may still be in business.
To: beaversmom
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posted on
09/07/2014 6:43:43 AM PDT
by
Califreak
(Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S.)
To: MeshugeMikey
Looks like some of the old projects in Chicago.
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posted on
09/07/2014 6:44:29 AM PDT
by
Vaduz
To: Vaduz
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posted on
09/07/2014 6:46:11 AM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
(Please RESIGN Mr. President Its the RIGHT thing to do)
To: beaversmom
Someone’s confused.Kowloon is part of Hong Kong.These photos are clearly of Detroit.
To: beaversmom
It looks like they had the best HOA ever!
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posted on
09/07/2014 6:56:17 AM PDT
by
WMarshal
(Free citizen, never a subject or a civilian.)
To: beaversmom
Ungoverned by Health and Safety regulations,
The U.S must have not got there yet.
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posted on
09/07/2014 6:56:22 AM PDT
by
ravenwolf
(nd)
To: beaversmom
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posted on
09/07/2014 6:56:51 AM PDT
by
ExCTCitizen
(I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
To: SamAdams76
Kowloon was a name of a Chinese restaurant in my hometown, too.
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posted on
09/07/2014 7:09:04 AM PDT
by
ExCTCitizen
(I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
To: beaversmom
The walled city was eventually torn down. A public park now occupies the site.
To: MeshugeMikey
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posted on
09/07/2014 7:30:14 AM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: major-pelham
Describing the walled city as lacking a government is not entirely accurate. Although there was no formal government, the illegal and quasi-illegal businesses there set and enforced rules and resolved disputes using gangs as hired muscle. In effect, the walled city was governed by gangsters.
To: beaversmom
Fascinating stuff. I am currently reading a book about pre-revolutionary China. Chinese culture is pretty brutal.
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posted on
09/07/2014 7:39:57 AM PDT
by
riri
(Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
To: Cringing Negativism Network
It looks like the Chungking Mansions may still be in business. It's still there - I walked around the shopping area inside just last year. Lots of African and Middle Eastern travelers and immigrants. Want to buy a fake Rolex from a seedy-looking Indian guy? That's the place. :)
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posted on
09/07/2014 7:46:27 AM PDT
by
Mr. Jeeves
([CTRL-GALT-DELETE])
To: beaversmom
The city was a phenomenon with 33,000 families and businesses living in more than 300 interconnected high-rise buildings, all constructed without contributions from a single architect. Why be an "architect" when you can be a "city planner"?
To: Gamecock; F15Eagle
To: beaversmom
Amazing, I was ignorant of all this history.
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posted on
09/07/2014 8:07:09 AM PDT
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: beaversmom
This is what is planned for Americans living in the suburbs.
The communist Democrat Party calls it "smart growth."
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posted on
09/07/2014 8:18:04 AM PDT
by
StormEye
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