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			<h1><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Destruction of Qianmen Hutong<br>
				</font><font size="+1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">前门胡同的扯破</font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
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							<td><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">West Damochang Street </font><font size="+1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">西打磨厂街 </font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">ended at Qianmen Dong Lu at the modesty wall that surrounded the major rebuilding of the business district on both sides of Qianmen Dajie can be seen. West Damochang Street </font><font size="+1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">西打磨厂街 </font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">would normally continue all the way to Qianmen Dajie and connect to Dashila Jie to continue west. </font>
								<p><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The roof of the modesty wall was decorated with pictures of old Beijing. Along the length of the wall, old pictures of Qianmen were hung with bits of history to inform the passerby.  Great attention was paid to keeping the destruction from being unsightly.  This was the year of the Olympics, and while the main streets would be finished, most of the hutongs would still be in rubble.</font></p>
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