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Qianmen Dajie 2008

New Qianmen
新前门

August 7, 2008

Soon the trolley will run again, but I don't think they will bring back the pedicab, and bicycles are banned. Below, the trolley was installed in 1924 on Qianmen Dajie, so this photograph was taken in the 1920s or early 1930s.


Qianmen Dajie in the early 1900s









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