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Ocean Park takes a step back in time

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Amy Nip

Rickshaws run on a street lined with dai pai dong food stalls tended by girls with braided hair and flowered shirts.

Around the corner is a Grand Cinema, decorated with old movie posters and fitted out with a period ticket booth, next to which performers in retro outfits stand luring customers in.

An Elvis Presley lookalike shouts from the upper floor of a tong lau, a style of tenement common in Hong Kong up until the 1970s, while olive sellers hurl their produce to customers on the balconies.

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Welcome to Hong Kong in the 1950s, as recreated by Ocean Park.

With Old Hong Kong, a HK$10 million attraction launched yesterday, the theme park aims to provide a taste of yesteryear with nostalgic buildings, fittings and traditional delicacies.

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Having taken two years to build, it is aimed mainly at locals familiar with the city's past.

'People come with their memories, and we hope they can relive them here,' Alex Chu, the park's executive director for design and planning, said.

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