
Rainy weekend here. How about your city?? I went out to try to find some moment, some moment for rainy weekend … But the light is not so good to take a nice photo. I caught some moments … but the photos looked so blurring. So lucky this building didn’t move as people did.
This building is on the Huai2 hai3 Road (M), the first ground floor is the shop. You could see the name of the shop in this photo — 上海妇女用品商店(red words on that big board)。In literally: 上海(shang4 hai3), of course you know it; 妇女(fu4 nv3)=women; 用品(yong4 pin3)=things for use; 商店(shang1 dian4)=shop. The products selling in that shop are all related to women. Once before 1980s, it was very famous in the mainland for its various goods, esp. some colourful clothes for women. At that period, people only wore the blue or green clothes. The whole China was a whole “gray” world. If someone wore some colourful/modern clothes, he/she would be criticized as the “bourgeois” who is the enemy of the “proletarian”. That period was a little bit abnormal as I see. Oops, history lessons again…
Oh, weekend, I stop, stop!!
The other floors of this building are apartments. (Adress of this building: Num.447-479, Huai2 hai3 Road (M). )
Happy happy and happy …..

Please don’t stop; keep the history lessons coming…so very interesting! Nice and sunny in New York today. Hope your shopping was good.
I have often wondered what it would be like to have a large lighted sign right outside your window.
New York has been good lately but a little rain never hurt anyone. You have a great blog with fantastic photographs and great stories to accompany them!
Well, those buildings are almost European. If it wasn´t for the signs, I ´d say that is a German or Dutch city.
History lessons are very good and useful. Keep them coming along with your beautiful photos.