Photos of Old Chefoo ( Yantai
)
Chefoo
became an open port after the Treaty of Tianjin in 1858. The name Chefoo comes
from the name of the
nearby
peninsula, called Zhifu. It was home to the American China Mission
and
the American Asiatic Squadron would spend the summer there till World War II
broke out,
when
it was occupied by the Japanese. Some Japanese soldiers refused to surrender
and holed up
in
the West Fort, where you can still see traces of machine gun fire . There is
also an East Fort, built in the Qing dynasty
with
several Krupp guns .Many foreign consulates were located on Yantai Hill, which
is now as museum .Raymond Burr, of
Perry
Mason fame spent some time here as a child, as did Henry Luce of Time Magazine
.Yantai was a German concession for 20 years, till WWI.
Yantai
Beer was brewed here before Qingdao (Tsingtao) Beer.
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Chefoo
1920s
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view
of Yantai Hill
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The
Chefoo Bund
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guns
at the west fort
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Church
and Astor hotel, torn down
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same
spot today
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Chefoo
1926
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Working
girls, Chefoo was bemoaned as a din on iniquity due
the American Squadron Naval Base by the missionaries
there
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torpedo
boats of the American Squadron
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British
Legation
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Chefoo
city wall, long gone
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East
Fort
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American
Mission with World war I memorial gate, may be part
of the entrance to Times
Square now
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Jean
Ermitage
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old
chefoo by Yantai Hill
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old
German post office
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old
French Post office
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old
main post Office, still in use
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pillbox
on the beach from the Japanese occupation days, most
of these have been destroyed
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American
sailors on rickshaws
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street
scene, Chefoo
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Chefoo
street in the 30s
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roughly
the same spot today
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many
of the old buildings were torn down or restored to make
an open muesum a few years ago
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West
Fort with bullet holes
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