| We stayed at The Singapore Hotel on Hennesey Road, in the district of Wanchai, known at that time as The Suzie Wong Area, and at the night time the place was teeming with Girlie Bars, American sailors, and the usual Shore Patrol with those long night sticks that they carried with them, I remember as we passed the shore patrol we used to up the English accent a bit so as not to be mistaken for drunken American sailors on shore leave, as there were many a time we had heard the clunk of wood on bone, later we befriended a couple of sailors and went on a tour of the Wanchai Area, from The Butterfly Bar on Jaffa Road, to Pinkey's Tattoo Palour and the usual haunts that the sailors hung out in, In fact the whole place at night time was like a scene from the movie The World of Suzie Wong starring William Holden and Nancy Kwan and I often watch that movie with fond memories, The tall building on the right hand photograph is The Conneaut Building all the windows are round and it is affectionately called "The Building of a Thousand Arseholes"
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