Most people are familiar with Shanghai's past during the 1930-1940s; but few know what this great city looked like in the late 1970s, shortly after the opening up. Here are some pictures that bring us back to that particular spring…(see original post here)
Pic 1: a busy pedestrian street; people were still wearing the "uniform" white shirts, but you can see some red skirts already. Note: all heads were black; no one dye their hair yet!
Pic 2: The Bund. Only a few buses run on the empty street; the century old colonial buildings were torn and beat. But street was dug up for construction and there was a new building in distance.
Pic 3: Around People's Square – the city center. People lined up to get on buses – a scene once gone but is slowly coming back now.
Pic 4: Birdview of Pu Xi. The ocean of red roof houses without the skycrappers that take up the sky today.
Pic 5: I'm guessing this is Pu Dong, on the Huangpu River bank. There was no paved road nor any decent buildings.
Pic 6: Thriving consumerism.
Pic 7: This look like the crossroad of Nanjing Road and Changde Road. You can see clearly here that no one follow the traffic rules.
Pic 8: an ordinary corner on which probably stands expensive property today