Discount hotels near Da Shi Jie Restaurant, Taipei. SAVE UP TO 75% OFF hotels near Restaurants and Cafes in Taipei. Rates from USD $15. Book online for instant. Great World (Da Shi Jie) is located in Shanghai. For travelers who use our custom trip planner, Shanghai holidays become easier to arrange, with trips to the Great World. Map of Da Shi Jie, Prague: Locate Prague hotels for Da Shi Jie based on popularity, price, or availability, and see TripAdvisor reviews, photos, and deals. Contents • • • • • History [ ] The Great World opened on 14 July 1917, the brainchild of Shanghai magnate. It was built as an integrated entertainment complex featuring amusement arcades, parlour games, music hall shows, variety shows and traditional Chinese theatre. Great World was rebuilt in 1928 in an eclectic style borrowing largely from European baroque, topped by a distinctive four-storey tower which quickly became a landmark. In 1931, Great World changed hands, bought out by another magnate,. On 14 August 1937 it was the site of the Great World bombing, or 'Black Saturday'. It was the second day of the between the and the. Great World had thrown open its doors for refugees fleeing the fighting in the Chinese and Japanese zones of the city for the relative safety of the (where Great World was located). Two bombs from a damaged bomber were accidentally released and exploded in front of Great World. The pilot, fearing the plane would crash, had intended to release the bombs into the large uninhabited space of the nearby, but the bombs were released too early. About two thousand people, made up of shoppers, passers-by, and refugees who were standing outside Great World, were killed or injured. After the takeover of Shanghai in 1949, Great World was renamed 'People's Amusement Arcade', but reverted to the old name in 1958. Closed during the, in 1974 the site became the 'Shanghai Youth Palace'. On 25 January 1981, Great World was re-established, and renamed 'Great World Entertainment Centre'. The basic layout of the complex has remained the same since the 1928 rebuilding. While the entertainment options have been updated over the years (with early on and more recently, for example), some elements remain the same. One legendary feature is the series of distorting mirrors near the entrance, which have provided simple entertainment to visitors for close to a century. Description [ ] In its heyday, Great World's main attractions were vaudeville, various regional forms of traditional, and forms. It was also famous for the twelve distorting 'magic mirrors' imported from the Netherlands in the lobby area. Writing of his visit in the mid-1930s, Hollywood film director described, 'On the first floor were gaming tables, singsong girls, magicians, pick-pockets, slot machines, fireworks, birdcages, fans, stick incense, acrobats, and ginger. One flight up were actors, crickets and cages, pimps, midwives, barbers, and earwax extractors. The third floor had jugglers, herb medicines, ice cream parlors, a new bevy of girls, their high collared gowns slit to reveal their hips, and (as a) novelty, several rows of exposed (Western) toilets. The fourth floor had shooting galleries, fan-tan tables, massage benches, dried fish and intestines, and dance platforms. The fifth floor featured girls with dresses slit to the armpits, a stuffed whale, storytellers, balloons, peep shows, masks, a mirror maze, two love letter booths with scribes who guaranteed results, rubber goods, and a temple filled with ferocious gods and joss sticks. On the top floor and roof of that house of multiple joys a jumble of tightrope walkers slithered back and forth, and there were seesaws, Chinese checkers, mahjongg, firecrackers, lottery tickets, and marriage brokers.' Now there is theater, music hall, Guinness hall, movie hall, video hall, magic world, dancing hall, KTV, tea house and ski field and so on. There is also the new Shanghai flavor snack corridor, restaurant and boutique market and so on. The Shanghai Great World is a playing center with entertainment, performance, viewing, food and sports and so on. Architecture [ ] The Great World consists of three four-storey buildings and two annexe buildings. The building was built in a simple vernacular style, except a tall, Baroque-inspired spire in the centre, which is supported by grand order columns extending to the first floor. Transportation [ ] Address: 1 Xizang Road, Shanghai •: •: Line 8 •: lines 1, 2 and 8 •: routes 127, 71, 48, 49, 01, 17, 18, 23, 980 etc. References [ ].
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