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Top: Hong Kong's floating towns, where people live and die at sea, is a feature of the world's most spectacular city and its harbor
Top: Hong Kong's floating towns, where people live and die at sea, is a feature of the world's most spectacular city and its harbor

Top: Hong Kong's floating towns, where people live and die at sea, is a feature of the world's most spectacular city and its harbor

Date12/28/1974
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Original Toronto Star caption: Top: Hong Kong's floating towns; where people live and die at sea; is a feature of the world's most spectacular city and its harbor.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0117484F
In contrast to Hong Kong's busy harbor, visitors can escape to the New Territories, which separates Hong Kong from China
In contrast to Hong Kong's busy harbor, visitors can escape to the New Territories, which separates Hong Kong from China
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The water people of Hong Kong are born, live and die aboard the junks and small craft that populate the busy harbor
The water people of Hong Kong are born, live and die aboard the junks and small craft that populate the busy harbor
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Hong Kong Harbor is a lively, bustling place full of sails and color and animation, with the world's best tourist city sprawling over the waterside hi(...)
4/1/1972
Hong Kong's Toronto jockey
Hong Kong's Toronto jockey
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Hong Kong's other side, far from the camera-cluttered shops of the main streets, can be seen by tourists who pick up a pamphlet outlining six walks th(...)
Hong Kong's other side, far from the camera-cluttered shops of the main streets, can be seen by tourists who pick up a pamphlet outlining six walks th(...)
12/31/1977
Hong Kong Harbor, with its fancy ferries and tour boats and its exotic, though not so fancy, junks, is a big draw for tourists, whose numbers increase(...)
Hong Kong Harbor, with its fancy ferries and tour boats and its exotic, though not so fancy, junks, is a big draw for tourists, whose numbers increase(...)
4/1/1972
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The ubiquitous junk that you see everywhere around Hong Kong will most likely have been built on Cheung Chau Island in the New Territories. It's the c(...)
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Hong Kong Harbor is one of the busiest in the world, with ships coming and going constantly
Hong Kong Harbor is one of the busiest in the world, with ships coming and going constantly
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King Kong's capers. Angelo Mosca - King Kong in black tights - wrestles for a living. At 6-foot-5,300 pounds, the former football star says he was alw(...)
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Above left, Winston Kong's ruched and ruffled silk taffeta sheath ad stole, $1,600 at Winston, shoes, Gerard
Above left, Winston Kong's ruched and ruffled silk taffeta sheath ad stole, $1,600 at Winston, shoes, Gerard
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A Chinese junk from Hong Kong rides at anchor in Toronto harbor, seen through a porthole of another ship
A Chinese junk from Hong Kong rides at anchor in Toronto harbor, seen through a porthole of another ship
6/12/1972
In Hong Kong harbor: Freighter addicts are willing to pay $5,000 to $7,000 for a trip that can last 7 months - but a luxury cruise can cost double or three times that
In Hong Kong harbor: Freighter addicts are willing to pay $5,000 to $7,000 for a trip that can last 7 months - but a luxury cruise can cost double or three times that
4/1/1972