Rebirth: Outstanding

Chapter 8 Legend of Retiro

Song Tianyao knew all about the legend of the North Point Dance Floor Nightclub, but he never had the opportunity to set foot in this Hong Kong entertainment mecca. Latest and fastest update

North Point Dance Floor Nightclub, whose real name is Retiro Garden Nightclub, 49 years ago, together with the "Guangzhou Restaurant" in Hong Kong, and the "Parallel Gate" in Central, were also known as the three major nightclubs in Hong Kong.

Guangzhou restaurant, although the name “restaurant” is hung on it, it actually operates as a dance hall. It is the first nightclub in the sense that it opened in Hong Kong. That year was 1935, when prostitution was banned in Hong Kong. A large number of prostitutes-women were introduced into nightclubs and transformed into dancers. It was the Guangzhou restaurant who invented a term to buy a street clock, which means that after singing and dancing, they can spend money to take the dancers out of the nightclub.

It can be said that the nightclubs in Hong Kong, from 1935 to 1945, for a full ten years, the Guangzhou restaurant was thriving in Hong Kong, and it swept the mountains and rivers until 1945 when the Paramount Nightclub opened.

Paramount Nightclub was opened by a British ghost named Charlie. It is different from the old-school traditional decoration style of Guangzhou restaurant. Paramount takes the name of "Parallment" in Shanghai and introduces modern western style, regardless of the building. It is still an employee, all of whom are based in England. This style immediately attracted all high-ranking British officials in Hong Kong, and it also allowed British businessmen doing business in Hong Kong to find a mecca for entertainment that suits their tastes, from the colonial governor of Hong Kong to ordinary British businessmen. As long as they are British, they have almost all of them. The entertainment and entertainment venues will be arranged in Paramount, which attracts many Chinese rich people who want to bribe senior officials and negotiate business with British businessmen to come to Paramount. Therefore, in only half a year, Paramount has taken Guangzhou. The name of the restaurant's Fengyueaotou was replaced, but the good times did not last long.

In 1946, Li Caifa, a Shanghai native from Hong Kong, a gang leader, and known as "Hong Kong Du Yuesheng", opened the Retiro Garden nightclub by the Seven Sisters Bay in North Point. It just took the name of Shanghai Beach Paramount, so it can be said that Li Caifa’s Retiro Garden Nightclub brought all the luxury of Shanghai Beach to Hong Kong.

The name Retiro Garden does not sound as good as Paramount, but it includes swimming pools, golf courses, nightclubs, restaurants, chess and card halls and other entertainment venues. The entire nightclub is like a luxury resort. As soon as it opened, it boarded the month. The American "Life" magazine is called the largest entertainment venue in the Far East by the magazine, and the owner Li Jianfa is also called the "Emperor of Hong Kong Nightclubs" by the magazine.

Moreover, Li Caifa relied on the relationship of the youth gang to plan the first dance girl strike since the opening of the port in Hong Kong. The target of the strike was the "Parallor Gate" nightclub. That night, all dance girls in Hong Kong went on strike, and all dance clubs and nightclubs were closed. Together, they accused Paramount nightclubs of spreading tax deductions on them and deducting their wages.

The Paramount Nightclub clearly knew that Li Jianfa was behind the plan, but it was helpless, because regardless of public opinion or labor law, it was not good for the Paramount Nightclub, and the mother Sang, the big sister, and the manager in the nightclub almost All of them have the background of the prefix, and no matter which prefix, it will give the veteran of the green gang Li Jianfa face. In this strike, three of the four big mothers of Paramount moved to Retiro Gardens, although in the end Paramount Nightclub will meet The dancers made concessions, raised their salaries, and resolved the matter peacefully. However, Retiro Garden gained a good reputation among the dancers, because before planning to launch the strike, Retiro Gardens had already increased the salaries of nightclub dancers. Over the average income of all dancers in Hong Kong.

If 49 years ago, it was the three major nightclubs in Hong Kong, then after 49 years, there will be nothing but Li Chinfa’s Ritz-Carlton in Hong Kong. The Kuomintang was defeated in 1949 and Du Yuesheng came to Hong Kong, and those who came to Hong Kong with Du Yuesheng during the same period returned. There are countless Shanghai tycoons. It can be said that 80% of Shanghai’s wealthy businessmen gathered in Xiangjiang, and Li Jianfa also saw the right time and arranged for someone to charter a boat to Shanghai. He invited a group of well-known figures in Shanghai’s service industry, and all of them hired Jinli with high salaries. Chi Garden, in one fell swoop, has turned Ritz Garden into a high-end consumer place, completely separating it from the other two.

For dinner, Retiro Garden has specially invited celebrity chefs from well-known restaurants in Shanghai.

Dressing, Retiro Garden is well-known in Shanghai, a tailor who used to cut clothes for the President of Huaguo.

Haircut, there is a barber in Retiro Garden who shaved the heads of three handsome men in Shanghai.

The wealthy people in Shanghai also let a group of Hong Kong turtles and colonial ghosts see what wealth is. The newspapers that year recorded that Du Yuesheng came to Hong Kong and Ford Motor Company sold 105 cars in January, compared with the previous year. The number has doubled.

When the car is still exclusive to the rich in Hong Kong, the subordinates of Shanghai's wealthy families can get the driver to drive a Ford 49 to help deliver to the vegetable market.

Poor at that time, many high-ranking government officials in Hong Kong only drove Ford 49, which meant that they were no different from the subordinates of Shanghai's rich family.

And these Shanghai rich people's entertainment place in the evening is Li Chinfa's Retiro Garden. With his connections in Hong Kong and his identity as a Shanghainese, Li Jianfa has a good relationship between the rich and the Hongkongers in Shanghai.

However, if the woods show up in the forest, the wind will destroy them. Hong Kong is a British colony. A Chinese was called the Emperor of Hong Kong nightclubs by American magazines. A Chinese nightclub was actually called the largest casino in the Far East. How can the British swallow this breath.

So, just opposite the Retiro Garden Nightclub, the British Charlie opened a Tiangong nightclub. The architectural decoration style is completely imitated by Retiro Retiro Gardens. The area is larger than Retiro Retiro Gardens. The dancing girl, mother Sanghe, played a big charity card on the opening day. The director of the Hong Kong Colonial Government Welfare Department and senior government officials were invited to attend, which immediately attracted countless wealthy people who wanted to connect with the Hong Kong colonial government to flood into the Tiangong nightclub. The Tiangong nightclub is very crowded, and the Retiro Garden gate can be a splendid bird.

Just when everyone thought that Li Jianfa could not compete with the British, at nine o'clock the night when Tiangong nightclub opened, Du Yuesheng, who has been ill and closed the door since he arrived in Hong Kong, and has never set foot on the festivities, dragging his sick body, At the gate of Chi Garden, opposite the Tiangong Nightclub, I got off the car and walked into the Lichi Garden Nightclub step by step.

Shanghai Du Yuesheng went to Ritz-Carlton Garden tonight. The news spread all over Hong Kong like the wind. At this time, in the Tiangong nightclub, many rich people in Shanghai who wanted to get acquainted with the senior officials of the Hong Kong government. .

At the end of the development, Hong Kong Chinese officials, inspectors, many veterans of the Hong Kong Youth League, disciples and grandchildren all gathered in Retiro Gardens, and even at the end, the Director of the Welfare Department couldn't help entering Retiro, and met Du Yuesheng.

Du Yuesheng only sat in the Lichi Garden for two hours and saw only a few people.

However, after this night, Retiro Gardens became the home base of various figures from the Three Mountains and Five Sacred Mountains in Hong Kong.

At this point, no one in Hong Kong's fun field dared to jump out to compete with Li Jianfa, and Li Jianfa has truly established his reputation as the emperor of Hong Kong nightclubs.

And Chu Xiaoxin, being able to become the head of the uncle and youth group in such a nightclub where there is a mixture of fish and dragons and sprinkling gold everywhere, is also considered a powerful person.