Nei Ho ? Remember the san Po Kong riots of the 67's.? Foreign Correspondents Club was in the Hilton I worked for Sam Jaffe abc news had a dream summer job in their South east asia office Cbs news gad a office there too.protest March above the Hill at the HK Governors Mansion above the road. Got worse with bomb scares and e.o.d.tech's losing limbs. before things got better.
Alex Ngan
09-May-2013 11:03
The Cat Street Coffee shop was our regular hang out. See and Be Seen. I especially it's men's room by the side on the stair leading to the second floor ...
Faith
21-Apr-2012 12:50
This picture brought back many memories.
We also went there for Christmas lunch.
Thank you
Faith
Monica
11-Apr-2012 19:39
I "lived" in the Hong Kong Hilton in the early 70's. We went there twice for short trips before we moved to HK in 1975. We lived in the hotel for 4 months before we moved to Repulse Bay.
I loved that hotel. Tanaka, the maitre-d of The Grill was always charming. My dad had been there so many times for business trips that they made a monogrammed napkin ring for him. He still has it.
Tommy, the somalier, was sweet. I think I had a crush on him. And the band...I can't recall their name. They were Philipino, I think. I recall having a crush on one of the members as well.
I loved that hotel. I was sorry to hear it was torn down. When my brother and his wife went back to Hong Kong in 1996, she almost booked them in the hotel. Thank goodness they changed hotels before they left or else they'd have found themselves looking at rubble. According to him that was all that was left when he got there.
I finally made it back in 2009. What changes to HK! Amazing. Even though I was 9 years-old when I left, I remembered so much, including the exact spot the Hilton had stood. You can't miss that rounded curb. Wow.
So sorry to see it gone.
Martin McCabe
15-Apr-2011 13:18
Lived on the 17th floor for 3 weeks in Oct 1968, pjcked up by bus for school at SGS every morning before mocing to Kowloon City.
Guest
15-Jan-2010 02:58
I worked in the room service for couple years before I came to the states. I still remember the 'Eagle's Nest' night club on the top floor and the 'Den' disco in the basement. A lot of memories.
he was a formidable figure, with scare tactics like that who would have dared to enter just to use the loo?? especially if you are 12 or 13 years old.... go to the mandarin instead!
Guest
07-Sep-2006 20:48
when I was a little kid, my mom used to say to me every time we walked by the hotel entrance (we lived in Wanchai then), 'see that big, bearded & turbaned Sikh security man with a vicious dagger? he'll come & take you away at night if you don't behave!'. Racist, derogatory & totally unacceptable way to teach a kid but I guess it must have worked. I remember that I would cry & beg her not to let him come near me. Well it brought tears back to my eyes when I first looked at this pic - Hilton is gone forever! ... by the way, I think he did quite well financially (tips from hotel guests), I seem to recall reading in the paper that ICAC was after him for tax evasions when they tore the hotel down.
