...is up on Building Russian Shanghai.

In his autobiography, Pakidoff mentions starting as Draughtsman at Elliott Hazzard in 1930 and attending a correspondence course in Architecture in 1933-1937. He failed to graduate because of the shortage of tuition money, but in 1937 he was hired as Assistant Architect by “a British construction firm” and ( Read more... )

Trove is a great source of digitized historic newspapers. Here is what The Canberra Times wrote about Shanghai in 1957:

"There are two European rendezvous left - a pastry shop on Avenue Joffre, where groups of White Russians lean against the windows and do their best to ignore the city outside, and a coffee shop in an arcade near the Bund. Here the ( Read more... )