In Shanghai Old Street, looking back to the old days and exploring old Shanghai

Looking back to the old days and exploring old Shanghai you will be
brought by "Shanghai Old Street" through the times-times back to 100
year ago. The rebuilt Shanghai Old Street is 825 m long from Renmin
Road to Henan Road, divided into the eastern and Western section. The
eastern section runs from Renmin Road to Guanyi Street. Shanghai Old
Street is an important east-west passageway for sightseeing in the
Yuyuan commercial and tourist area. Back in the old days, it was
called the Great Street Before the Temple. There gathered a group of
Shanghai's earliest old-style private banks, gold shops, silverware
shops, wine shops, teahouses, theatres and firms, a passageway for a
passenger flow linking Shiliupu, the City God Temple and Yuyan area.
It was an old street gathering all the 360 trades of old Shanghai. It
mow presents to visitors the almost extinct trades, like the private
banks, shops with mahogany furniture, pawn shops, old-fashioned
teahouses, old-fashioned wine shops, and embroidery stores. In the
eastern section of the street after "remodeling and restoration
teahouses, old-fashioned wine shops, and embroidery stores. In the
eastern section of the street after "remodeling and restoration to
antique feature" the folding screen doors and aluminum windows of many
shops are no longer there but replaced with latticed windows, wooden
door-boards and swing-boards and swing-doors typical of decorations of
last Qing Dynasty residences. Besides, the patterned drip-pipes,
upturned eaves, protruding corners and horse-head walls make visitors
feel as if they have gone back to the old days. The western section is
mainly laid out with Ming Dynasty imitation buildings with black tiles
and white-washed walls, red pillars and upturned eaves, typical of the
architectural style of old towns in the Ming and Qing Dynssties. Here
one will find rows of antique-featured shops, such as the water pipe
store, glutinous dumplings store, roasted nuts shop, teahouses. A
visitor here will find the different trades of business and travel and
a hundred different features of the town market
Address: Fangpang Rd, Shanghai
Phone: 86-021-13564688117 to Miss Shen