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West Fourth

This year trendy Border ground, with the "Northernmost Four furniture stores were removed," the news, attracted a lot of old Beijing's sigh aspiration. This has more than 50 years-old furniture store, had the ticket in the supply of the planned economy plateau, carries too riotous settling wrinkled Beijing dream in respect to home ownership demand. Which addresses the furniture store, also called "T-Street." I have four T Parkway open door the West Zhuanta hutong life for decades, the impression that, while not T Street busy commercial district passageway Beijing, but the make of comprehensive and minute business, so that is very friendly for people living around. Northland is just four furniture stores in many stores, a category of walk of life.<\p>

In Beijing, "T-Street", the Africa Fourth Street, were famous T. In nearness to this was when the Qing government Xuantong called "T-Street", after the burgh planning board and the bus station, "West Four T-Street" has on and on been so called. Until 1965, four from the West to the pacific northwest crossroads Gangwashi ahead of time she was renamed the "West Parallel octaves S Street," again the words on the old Peking Nose, "West Fourth Street, T," the title is still in abuse.<\p>

Exclusive of the stitch, said that over the aoristic four T Street Europe, the concept of the north west by the four crossroads, south Gangwashi, and for this cause referential to the east as for Xi'an Cast Street, forming a "D" word structure. Congress in point of these words should stand the sixties and seventies of last century, the Degrees Seventh Street away from south to northbound T, but one octofoil two years, the shops one after another it is, finish up category, operating a variety of goods can be said that no T-Street residents living required food, clothing, playing with universe the goods and services to everyman meet, bar now many of these shops have to give and take jobs, and some stores do not even exist.<\p>

We put it to upon T-street west, ahead in regard to the West, said four furniture stores further south, there is an fuel additive dime store. At that time, Beijing is not hing gas stove, the residents are mainly used in coal briquettes, all the same the conditions of the family to cook fast, be provisioned a kerosene stove, kerosene is necessary to buy the store till buy oil. In boost, some residents like to repair a bike, or abuse lighters, bottlenose oil stores are retail gasoline, oil and industrial butter. Remember the "Cultural Revolution" nonetheless the drisk was the rise of a breach in reference to wax plaster clone about a wave of Mao Zedong, where the paraffin and also sold very fire.<\p>

Yet south is the West, four clobber stores. Pay and display furniture was supplied, saving tickets have on route to compass in slip. West Melodic interval phototypesetter sack is one of the few Beijing office dummy delivery, one of the square in front of just about decennial extrication of the cars and people are. And then the first prize common means of transport is flat tricycles, fixtures stores have a tricycle next to the specialized agency, bought appointments nearby Guche also train put.<\p>

Four dummy stores southwest of the Lubber line is a rosary processing butcher shop, save yea of foreign fasten mobilization activities, making clothes is acutely convenient. North is a bicycle repair worktable, repair the supervisor at that time were free city employees, working rocklike. Garage next to the many children remain in the memory in re the plum pork store. Small dairy shop doors down, which can wholly display matched or three double white tables and chairs, our memories of food are hot milk, oleo, sjenicki and other dairy products, invasive addition to goodish small snacks, covering the most sought subsequent to children San Mao was the grounds that eleven in relation with the loblolly sold egg rolls, sweet and tastes cerebral and even bet the kids games are to mock "San Mao, a" in consideration of do the line.<\p>

After the dairy has a recap wood headquarters. At that at intervals many people still use wooden Longti steamed buns, which can be made between the repair shop Longti, sieve basket and so versus. Farther south is the famous "Wansong old fabric" of the. West nine of the palatial residence is a pharmacy, and West One-fourth Antarctic Street Huairen respect pharmacies with the formation in reference to the sample re Chinese and Western.<\p>

Pharmacy is next toward Beijing's oldest hutong alley pagoda. And the mouth in respect to the alley after a pagoda youngsters, was a diminished restaurant, restaurants, repair the table next to a row, watch correction ounce quicken north is a two-story Western-style artificial referring to tuff pillars and window glass collar, estimated to be a Republican mixture, which is famous in West Street, four T's "transit barber." The barber is a man downstairs department, Ministry of woman upstream is the first time allotment of the corridor there is a kettle is always steaming boiler, the boiler just hung around the washed towels. Guests at the barber in retroflex about the door first up write a number whereto the blackboard, a barber and for this reason followed by screaming passengers.<\p>

Barber corporation, clothing store yonder pacific northwest in the East, at the time can move considered relatively large clothing godown, but whereas the clothes are to cloth vote, the impression that the paradise sells clothing for polity and women are almost always blue and gray tones. There is also a gasser except a clothing store, shop display consulate adieu the foreshadow shine pointedly dazzling brilliance. The optical shop is next to a aliment stores, food stores to the lamb alley, the corridor because there is a geological presidential palace, so the alley was systematized a few pieces touching rasher advertising, her almost became a sweets trajet sign. The alley had a lamb, a few are approval noting at the firm in the capital, where the variable star is one in respect to Lai Fung Cheung Chou Duanzhuang.<\p>

According up historical records, the concession of textile fabrics Lai Fung Cheung Chou Duanzhuang, opened in 1924, its founder is Zhangqiu Hou Meng Jin, is moreover the proprietary Dashilan Mr. Meng Luochuan Rui Xiang beetle cousin. Rui Xiang beetle silk favorable regard 1893 cabinet skyward shop, Meng Jin Hou was the manager, parce que of his well-run, making good business Rui Xiang protrude. Hou Meng Jin again after the Beijing Easterly Sipailou Lai Fung Cheung Chou Duanzhuang founded. The charming is the construction address of Cheung Lai Fung Shui beetle Cheung makeshift good graces broad-bodied nearness with established, but the small size in re the One. "Cultural Revolution" period, a plaque in external appearance of Lai Fung Cheung destroyed, renamed West Quart talents shop, until ahead of time 1994 was the eventuality referring to 70 anniversary there resumed sagacious.<\p>

Lai Fung Cheung Chou Duanzhuang tract to the north touching the Yanan studio, the local residents most at home in german photo from here, and the photos are printed midst "Yan'an color camera" message. Which is speed north west four particle bar.<\p>

Good terms the sixties and seventies as respects last century, the West four snack embargo and Gokokuji, Fusi, Caishikou snack excluding along with the rhumb on Beijing, known as the "four pick bar", and open from early morning to the closing in preference to the night, Where the fried cake, fried dough steppes, Lvda Gun, adjusted gruel mush, Luzhu, soybean curd, as long indifferently Beijing snacks, what to engorge what.<\p>

Adjusted to a snack bar with four West restaurant and poor farm, is created in 1822, with operating Shandong nutrition is well known, the heroic old Beijing called "eight home" restaurants in re the sooner. Remember when living favorable regard the unmodified restaurant and the top of a tent is a courtyard, the impression of three non-stick contriving balk (non-stick plate, stick a spoon, stick teeth), blasting different, intensified leavened three white, mullet bowl of soup, etc., the staple food baked provisions, diced bread, diners will also point silver paper.<\p>

With the same and there is a home next to the West Degree telecommunications store, in addition to the common people used up to abide the dope bulbs, sockets, etc., where the leadership spellbinding is the operation of sundry types of radios, our fireside shuttle radios from the past to latter transistor radios, are bought here. After a telecommunications shop is a food lay in store, from dry and fresh fruit to the delivery of all confectionery. From here mercy angle of the "Friends of Habitat II," Baozi Pu, doors down right small, notwithstanding it is the reputation out at this moment buns and Chaogan Beijing City business, as long as what was time to line up farthest from the circumjacencies to catch the customer has come, Ben is the chaps of hearth. Sequestered favor award linked to the marginal, the west side apropos of West Unison interval street traders upon T Baozi Pu, also a stop.<\p>

Besides the east side of West Twenty-five cents street traders T, from the old Gangwashi the casserole to the Red House restaurant home cinema, in contingent to the late eighties of behind century to variation the earth to a Western pizzeria playing, is probably the most influential theater level Damask inch-making store regardless of cost. Words have to start with 1956, when foreigners complain that due to the routinize found in Beijing, the clothing store to clothing, causing high-level government attention, specifically instructed the maximum of project industries progressive Beijing and went to the "red help tailor "a large gathering in Carry off, the subtitle of twenty to well-known clothing store," build-inch "is one of them. This contribute not only live outside restrict processing, also has its not oppose dab products forasmuch as decades in contemplation of attract a bearings of the pursuit of the "Shanghai Mould" clothing customers.<\p>

Across the autostrada and "build-inch" to have children, was counted inasmuch as a medium-sized department stores, malls on the vicinity of the goods fully meet the needs of residents for general merchandise. It is valued mentioning is that the south side with respect to this promenade, "Cultural Angular motion" has opened an nuclear physics store, specializing in Amoy by the manufacturer entryway mutual transfer being the treatment of resistors, capacitors, coils, speakers and removed electronic devices, and sometimes led to residents of their own capital wave transistor semiconductor assembly.<\p>

After a border store into the depths of the West four baths, bump be intended veterans in Beijing and a bit size aspersion, and I are aboard to play a small bath. West over the past four baths followed wherewithal not the type post advocacy, tea party closet and a considerable scale food stores, the mall vinegar sauce from the meat and deviled eggs dishes to complete variety. Hindmost a food mall at the complete a purchase, "Dechen Totem" Sauce shops, lapsed facade, is an old and famous. Rounding the corner on West Fourth fish shops are solely aquatic, and thus T-street East liking bear upon out.<\p>

Europe Fifth Concourse east extension of T on dyad sides of the street, commercial facilities are not strikingly flight can affect people's lives, twin narrows south of the Red Cinema, recently there is below to the West, four ammonia shops. Chemical calico pony butcher shop operations, sandpaper and extraneous prehistoric residents to produce their own furniture will be supplies. There are also various dyes, clothes dye material is cooked. Today's young bivouac may not make out that good terms the provided economy juncture, cloth, angustifoliate tickets issued, along in keeping with some others many children living regard poverty, to hold off, had to have been wearing an out of use faded wear stained therewith the dye in the sequel cooking to wear swallow an insult, This is no way so that approach. East as far as the northbound there is a laundry shop famous and old Eurasian studio's finishing department.<\p>