Wednesday, December 31, 2008

The Grand Hotel – Tsingtao



A contact in America was kind enough to send me some scans of various luggage labels recently from around Asia collected in the 1930s.The Grand Hotel Tsingtao (Qingdao) is a good one as I’m not sure it’s there anymore.




Here’s a picture of the hotel in its heyday.









Grand Hotels Ltd ran three hotels in Tsingtao as their flyer below shows. I don’t know much about the hotel except that it crops up in a lot of GI memoirs – American soldiers were apparently billeted there at the end of World War Two.

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1 comment:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 12, 2010 at 8:00 PM

    The hotel became Japanese-owned subsequent to WW1; I have bilingual stock certificates from that era but doubt that they are valid....So the hotel was German, then Japanese, and finally Chinese...

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