I've written several times previously about the American military housing areas in the Taipei area. Today I received an interesting link from Klaus Bardenhagen, a German reporter who lives and works in Taipei. You can view his website (with a link to his blog) at
http://www.taiwanreporter.com.
The link he provided is to an article in Taipei City's tourism magazine titled, "
The US Military’s Cold War Housing in Shanzihou & Tianmu." It goes into some detail about the architecture of the old structures and how they were perceived by local citizens.
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That's an interesting and very sympathetic article. The focus is very much on the BOT housing however. There's still a lot of other housing connected with MAAG and USAID which doesn't get covered.
i wish someone could post or tell me how to find possible pics of the house i used to live in in yanminshan. if you knew where the Japanese amb residence was there was a lane right before the entrance to his house and ours was about a 1/4 mile down the end of that lane where at that time it dead ended in 2 cul-de-sacs.
@quinn: You mean current pics? Have you tried Google Maps/Street View?
Quinn :
I made a map out lined all Quarters, https://picasaweb.google.com/good.old.house/
I will mail this map to Don with the house number list, so you can have a better view, please tell me the year that you lived here,
please also contact Helan at TAS Alumini too.
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