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View of Blood Alley from Avenue Edward VII toward Rue du Consulat. We see the signs for Royal Café, Crystal, Fantasio Café, Laci; there also were New Ritz, International Kitchen & Bar, Little Navy Bar, Chez Lazare, New Deal (Shelton's), Shanghai Bar and New Manhattan...


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The article in Russian: https://magazeta.com/arc-federal/


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Here is a couple entering the newly opened Mandarin Club in the underground floor of the Bubbling Well Apartments:

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Continuing on the topic of buildings that have long disappeared, here is another forgotten pearl - the 'old' Wheel casino and its successor the Ritz Café.

This image of the Commercial Press under construction, at 26 Paoshan Road, may be showing the casino building in the background:

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