Bars! (Tsingtao - Shanghai, 1940)

Created 25-Jan-12

Modified 4-Feb-12

18 photos

From a sailor's album (by the name of Harold - Harry - Carrico). Photographs taken between June 20 and August 24, 1940, in Tsingtao (Qingdao) and Shanghai. Carrico was a seaman on the SS Pike (aka Submarine 173), which used Shanghai and Tsingtao as a regular base, until the attack on Pearl Harbor in Dec. 1941, that is, when Japanese authorities closed the Tsingtao port to American warships and merchants.

Readings:
Andrew Field: Shanghai's dancing world: cabaret culture and urban politics, 1919-1954 (HK, Chinese University Press, 2001)

Mumm Cafe, Shanghai, Finnemore's Bar (right), in what appears to be the (in)famous "Blood Alley"

Ritz Hotel, Bar and Restaurant (appears to be Tsingtao)

Charleston and Moulin Rouge Cabaret, Tsingtao (Thanks for the verification, SU!)

Midnight Cafe and Cabaret (appears to be Tsingtao)