Aberto em 1928 foi durante muitos anos o centro de jogo de Macau... Fica na San Ma Lou - Av. Almeida Ribeiro... muito perto da Rua dos Mercadores com as suas casas de penhores com edifícios de fachadas “art-deco” restauradas.
Macao had a single street running half the length of the town, the “Street of Happiness,” which had been one great and continuous street of pleasure until 1928 when the nine-story-high Central Hotel, the largest house of gambling and self indulgence in the world, was constructed . It is a nine-story skyscraper, by far the largest building in Macao, and it is devoted solely to the human vices. It has one more original feature. The higher up the building you go, the more beautiful and expensive are the girls, the higher the stakes at the gambling-tables, and the better the music. Thus on the ground floor the honest coolie can choose a girl of his own class and gamble for pennies by lowering his bet on a fishing rod contraption through a hole in the floor on to the gaming-tables below. Those with longer pocket can progress upwards through various heavens until they reach the earthly paradise on the sixth floor. Above this are the bedrooms.
Macao had a single street running half the length of the town, the “Street of Happiness,” which had been one great and continuous street of pleasure until 1928 when the nine-story-high Central Hotel, the largest house of gambling and self indulgence in the world, was constructed . It is a nine-story skyscraper, by far the largest building in Macao, and it is devoted solely to the human vices. It has one more original feature. The higher up the building you go, the more beautiful and expensive are the girls, the higher the stakes at the gambling-tables, and the better the music. Thus on the ground floor the honest coolie can choose a girl of his own class and gamble for pennies by lowering his bet on a fishing rod contraption through a hole in the floor on to the gaming-tables below. Those with longer pocket can progress upwards through various heavens until they reach the earthly paradise on the sixth floor. Above this are the bedrooms.
ResponderEliminar(abridged) Ian Fleming,'Thrilling Cities' 1947
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