The
Shwedagon 1855. This is the first photograph ever of the Shwedagon
pagoda and was taken from where the Cantonment Gardens are today.
Another
photo of the old Royal Hotel at 619 Merchant Street between Brooking
Street and 42nd Street (now the Gamon Pwint shopping centre between
Bogalay-zay St and 42st). It was once considered the best in Rangoon
together with the Strand and Minto Mansions. At least the building is
still standing.
The
New Excelsior theatre on Montgomery Street (now the Waziya on Bogyoke
Aung San Street) c. 1950 screening the Ester Williams musical "Bathing
Beauty". It is the oldest cinema in Yangon and was built in the 1920s.
