Part I

Don’t miss part II

I’ve been living in Taiwan for a while and really enjoy watching clips of ‘the old days’ of Taiwan. There are a lot of similarities between then and now, and for some reason it reminds me a lot of current day Indonesia.

From the filmmaker:

This footage shot by father-in-law Ted Staberow, who with wife Elayne came to visit Joyce and me, in June 1971. I was stationed in Tainan while with the USAF, and we lived at #2 Lane 181 Ta Tung Lu. The house behind the red gate was our home. Ted took his Super 8 movie camera and stood out on the street to shoot what he saw, which was traffic heading south towards Kaohsiung, and north up to Tainan city center and beyond. Sorry, there is no sound. He also was very attentive to any female passerbys. A good glimpse of this really excellent city back then, though I hear this stretch of Ta Tung Lu is gone, due to an intersection with a new north/south expressway. Back in 1971 this was the north south expressway.
Somewhere along here was the exploding whale, I think, a couple of years ago, but don’t quite know.

Part II

From the Filmmaker:

The second part of the Super 8 movie my father-in-law shot in Taiwan in 1971. It starts out in Kaohsiung, the major southern port of the island. That’s Joyce in the yellow top. Afterwards we visit the twin pagodas at Tsoying Lake. Then we are back in Tainan City, visiting the Confucious Temple, the oldest in Taiwan. We also visit the Red-Haired Tower, the old Dutch Fort Provintia (I can’t think of the Chinese name). Then I climbed to the top of what was the tallest building in the city, an eight-story pool hall, overlooking the harbor. Even though I panned the camera way too fast, you can get an idea of what downtown Tainan looked like back then. Back on the ground, you can see part of the shrimp fleet, shared with the port of An Ping.