Sharp Street West
Sharp Street West (Chinese: 霎西街) is a street in Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island. The street starts from Morrison Hill Road near Wing Ning Street in the west, passes South Pacific Hotel (南洋酒店), the intersection of Chan Tong Lane (陳東里), Xinhua News Agency, the intersection of Bowrington Road, and connects to Canal Road West near the entrance of Canal Road flyover.
Features
South Pacific Hotel
The site of the South Pacific Hotel was the Nanyang Theatre. Nanyang Theatre is a cinema with a total of 1,097 seats. It was demolished in 1989 and converted into the South Pacific Hotel, which housed two mini cinemas with 352 and 374 seats respectively and reopened in April 1992. The name of the theater was also changed from Nanyang Theater to South Pacific Theater. Although it reopened as a small cinema, business did not live up to expectations and it closed in April 1999.[1][2][3]
References
- ↑ "香港記憶 | Hong Kong Memory". 香港記憶 | Hong Kong Memory (in 中文). Retrieved 2025-04-22.
- ↑ "South Pacific Theatre / 南洋戲院 [1992-1999] | Gwulo". gwulo.com. Retrieved 2025-04-22.
- ↑ "那天我們走過南洋戲院". 戲院誌 Talk Cinema. 2009-01-29. Retrieved 2025-04-22.
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