Hong Kong
Station Ship, Hong Kong
While doing our Westpac tour, USS Duncan was assigned duty as "Station Ship, HongKong" for thirty days to show the flag in the far east. Since we were carrying the Squadron Commander (ComDesRon Nine), he was the "Senior Officer Present Afloat". His Communications Officer was on leave so I was assigned his duties (and privileges - LOL).
Toward the end of our stay in Hong Kong, there was a shipping strike and a strike by dock workers, so many ships went unloaded. Honk Kong ran out of American beer, and Duncan was renamed the "Drunken Duncan". Imagine how it looked when an American destroyer (and the rest of our ships in the squadron) pulls into a port and it runs out of beer!
I bought three suits with matching silk shirts for $25, and they threw in neckties.
While in port, I was able to visit Tiger Balm Gardens, Victoria Island and Aberdeen.
Tiger Balm Gardens
The mansion and gardens located at 15, Tai Hang Road, Tai Hang, Wan Chai District, Hong Kong. The Tiger Balm Garden was demolished for redevelopment in 2004. The Haw Par Mansion and its private garden have been preserved.
- More information is available at [ Wikipedia:Tiger Balm Garden ]
Aberdeen
Land is at a premium, so the south side of the island became home to huge floating restaurants. These barges are in a single word, huge! And the food was absolutely wonderful. I'll give you a clue. Years later at a meeting of a dozen 'techies', the topic of food came up. All of us had, at one time or another, had visited the same floating restaurant in Hong Kong!
Bottoms Up Club
The Bottoms Up Club was a girlie bar in Hong Kong. The bar became notorious for its appearance in the 1974 James Bond film "The Man with the Golden Gun". The interior of the club evoked the interior of the club as seen in the film.
History
The Club opened in the basement of Mohan's Building at 14 Hankow Road in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, in March or May 1971. One of its early managers was Pat Sephton, a former Windmill model . A 1994 court ruling requested it to remove its naked-buttocks neon sign, and to have its naked dancers wear bras or negligees. The Tsim Sha Tsui location closed in April 2004. Rising rents were cited as possible reasons for the closure. The Club re-opened at the first floor of David House, 37–39 Lockhart Road in Wan Chai in May 2004, this time mainly as a sports bar, with one of the original bars being recreated in a back room.
The club closed down in July 2009.
- More information is available at [ Wikipedia:Windmill Theatre#Windmill_Girls ]
In BackDrop lore
In the late 1970's, Tom (a Backdrop member) traveled to Hong Kong. He was so taken with the place, he brought several boxes of matches with the "Bottoms Up" logo printed on them.
He would often place a book of matches on tables of restaurants just to see the reactions of waitresses and other clients of the restaurant.
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