Shanghai General Tips by herzog63

Favorite Thing: There is alot of action on the river! Boats,Ships,Junks & and barges of all sizes are roaming the waters! I could spend hours just watching the boats go by! Sadly I only saw one Junk with it's sails up and it was a prop being used in a Steven Speilburg movie so that doesn't count!


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Favorite Thing: You can walk around in some of the shopping areas where at certain times can be quite crowded. When I was there in 1987 the most of the shelves in the stores where quite bare!! I think things have changed since then. I thought it was quite interesting to walk into a Huge store with lot's of racks and shelving and only have a few items on each one. Prices were very cheap compared to here in America.


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Favorite Thing: There appeared to be families living on many of these boats that were tied up in the Wusong River. I enjoyed just walking along and watching how people lived and worked.


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Favorite Thing: This guy was enjoying his morning when he spotted me taking photos he proudly posed so I could take his photo. I gladly obliged..


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Favorite Thing: These carts seemed to still be the main workhorse for neighborhood delivery! Not so speedy but the delivery will be today sometime!


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Favorite Thing: I just thought it was cool to see the writing. It was on the columns that were in front of one of the big stores. There sure were alot of people in this area shopping.


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Favorite Thing: Steven Speilburg was filming "Empire of the Sun" while I was in Shanghai. One of the days was very interesting as I kept coming across different "movie props" that I thought were real!! LOL When I saw this movie marquee for "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" I thought that it had run non-stop since the 1930's!! ahahha I was going to check it out...I also came across an old Texaco sign and in 1987 There weren't any of these foreign companies in China so that was a prop too...The foreign companies were just starting to get back in at this time. Well that sign was a movie prop also. In the evening I watched the Bridge scene being filmed as I stood up on the hill above the Wusong River. It was pretty interesting to see.

Fondest Memory: This was so cool...I was disappointed that it wasn't a real movie house!

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Favorite Thing: I don't know why but I noticed that alot of the babies were being cared for by the fathers in Shanghai. When I did my wandering through the residential areas. Maybe the moms were working? Maybe the Moms needed a break? I don't know...just something that I noticed. I spend alot of time with my son and I also did the same when he was a baby....I guess we are all the same all over!?!


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