Photos of old Chefoo (Yantai)

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.

Chefoo 1920s

view of Yantai Hill

The Chefoo Bund

guns at the west fort

Church and Astor hotel, torn down

same spot today

Chefoo 1926

Working girls, Chefoo was bemoaned as a din on iniquity due the American Squadron Naval Base by the missionaries there

torpedo boats of the American Squadron

British Legation

Chefoo city wall, long gone

East Fort

American Mission with World war I memorial gate, may be part of the entrance to Times Square now

Jean Ermitage

old chefoo by Yantai Hill

old German post office

old French Post office

old main post Office, still in use

pillbox on the beach from the Japanese occupation days, most of these have been destroyed

American sailors on rickshaws

street scene, Chefoo

Chefoo street in the 30s

roughly the same spot today

many of the old buildings were torn down or restored to make an open muesum a few years ago

West Fort with bullet holes