Yilan Park, today’s Yilan Zhongshan park. That lake is no where to be found to day. Don’t think the obelisk is there either.
There was a Jinja, but was moved to today’s Yuanshan park.
The only thing still left standing from the Japanese era is this:
Sacrificial head offering memorial, made by the Japanese to honor those ethnic Hans that lost their heads at the hands of local Aboriginals. The memorial of course glossed over the fact that the Qing government committed ethnic cleansing of the local Kavalan and Sakizayas, executing the leaders and their wives by cutting off a piece of their flesh at a time until they die.
Very neat…wish there were more commentary on the exact locations of some of the shots…the one with the Mandarin Hotel seems to be flipped for some reason. I also seem to recall those houses where Daan Park is now were still there in '89, but my memory is fuzzy. I do recall the motorcycle repair shops because I got my old Suzuki monster fixed there.
Every world city I can think of has a “Old Picture of …” archive on Facebook, where members can post and discuss about old pictures. Even Oslo, a tiny city when compared to Taipei has one with over 15.000 members. So I created one for Taipei as well. Please come and join and contribute with your photos. It might be a small step in making beautiful Taipei more recognized as a world renowned city, but a step it is.
It was a major transportation link in the old days. there’s been some talk about it on here before. I remember some guys tried to follow the length of it as best as possible. Here’s one post about it
really? that’s interesting. It’s a pity they didn’t keep operating them. Even with cheap gasoline, a fleet of automated, solar-powered barges would cost next-to-nothing to run, I reckon.
They must have had really, really small barges though. Less than a meter wide judging by the scale of that car in the photo.
I guess it wasn’t being maintained at that point and it gradually became overgrown and narrow. This happens regularly at the Huangxi near my house, and they have to bring bulldozers in to re-widen it.
I love the one titled: “Taipei - dans les faubourgs”. Bamboo huts, roaming pigs, and mud ramparts. That square meter of land the pig is rooting on is probably worth a year’s salary today.
