The geographical concept of old Andong is slightly different from today. There were 9 ditches flowing from southwest to northeast in the city of Andong. The area of ​​each ditch extends from the north to the Yalu River. Therefore, the area of ​​Qidaogou in history is much larger

Bagang Street, called Bagang in Dandong dialect, after the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, Japan signed an agreement with the Qing Dynasty to use Qidaogou as the dividing line between the Chinese residential area and the Japanese residential area. Japan occupied the highland and built a cement dam along the Qidaogou.

Bagang Street Xiri Residence Old Movie

Old Andong's geographical concept is slightly different from today. There were 9 ditches flowing from southwest to northeast in the city of Andong. The area of ​​each ditch extends from the north to the edge of Yalu River. Therefore, the area of ​​Qidaogou in history is much larger than today.

Qidaogou was transformed into crypt after liberation. In 1986, the cement dam paving road was named Bagang Road. Now there is no trace of the dam that existed in the past.

Bagang Road is still the dividing line now, but it is just the dividing line between Zhenxing District and Yuanbao District . During the epidemic, Dandong grid blocking and a isolation network separates the two areas here.

There is a dam, there is a river, and there is a river, there is a bridge. There were once five bridges on Qidao River, which ran through Qidaogou, arranged from south to north as the Toudao Bridge to Wudao Bridge. Today, these bridges have all disappeared, leaving only some place names on Bagang Road.

The five bridges accompanying Bagang Street, I have already talked about them in "Talking about the Past Things in Dandong". I will not go into details. Interested friends, please follow my official account "Lao Jiang Kaising" to read the previous article.

Andong Five Bridges Distribution Map

The cement dam on Bagang Street was built by a Japanese on the side of the Manchurian Railway annex that was rented by the Manchurian Railway. It is a single-sided dam. After the embankment was built, a row of two-story buildings were built along the dam wall.

The ridge of the dam starts at the intersection of Shiyijing Street and Xianqian Street. There are hillsides in Qidaogou, and there are no dams built. In the Japanese era, there are Japanese cemeteries in the ditch.

After the dam ridge was built, the dam was bounded by the dam, to the west was the Japanese residential area, and to the east was the old market street of the Chinese.

Bagang Street East China Land

Old Movie Listen to the old man that after the opening of Andong, there was a "dashed city" between Bagang Street and Xin'an Street. It was a square market called Old City Street, which was very lively.

The old city street was later renovated and there was indeed a road called "Xinshi Street". I can't tell if it was the road leading to Guangji Street on the side of the Dandong Cinema. Now there is no trace.

In the old China, many bizarre stories happened in the Anton Garage Market, especially during the puppet Manchukuo period, before and after the liberation, the Japanese fled in a hurry, and many "dumpling" became rich overnight.

The various forms of the world in the junk market have very strong drama conflicts and distinct personality traits, war themes, separation from life and death, joy and sorrow, ups and downs, and filming a TV series, slogans for 180 episodes, plus love, hate, love, love, hatred, and love, the ratings are estimated to be very high.

is Xin'an Street across the dilapidated city, and its location is roughly the same as today's Xin'an Street. My first memory of Xin'an Street was Dandong Cinema and Friendship Cinema. I still remember going to watch "Modern Times" at 5:30 in the morning. It was also very hard to watch movies at that time.

Friendly Cinema in the 1970s and 1980s

Friendly Cinema's mosaic colored bricks on the exterior wall of the foyer of the Friendship Cinema are dazzling and beautiful today. At that time, when I went to Xinhua Bookstore , I always liked to walk through the alley next to the Friendship Cinema, walk through it for a short section of Bagang Street, and then I arrived at the second bridge and entered Qijing Street.

is very close to Erdaoqiao Dam. There is an alley called the Traffic Gate. During the puppet Manchukuo, it was a "three-no-control" area, with small restaurants coming one by one. Walk north, go to Sandaoqiao, and arrive at Ping'anli, a large area of ​​kilns, where there are empty places to do everything, such as selling Dali Wan, slimming, etc., which are very prosperous. Let’s talk about the east side, performing opera, gambling, and playing art... with the shabby mess as the center, forming the most prosperous and lively commercial district in Anton at that time.

There is a Chunhe barber shop west of Xin'an Street, famous! Heading north, adjacent to the Friendship Cinema, there are shops for renting Little Man Books and Sticky Food. It is about the ninth store in the current Jinzhou Bank . It is a slender department store, not too big or small.After the demolition of the Ninth Store, the store was also built, called the Long March Department Store. In the 1980s, the ground floor of Long March Department Store was converted into a water and land shopping mall, selling some chilled seafood, and now it is the Dandong Branch of Jinzhou Bank.

Door east of Xin'an Street, opposite to the Friendship Cinema is a hotel, and across the street is a fruit pastry shop. Another road is Dandong Cinema.

After the liberation of Dandong Cinema,

went to Dandong Cinema to watch movies. There were several steps in front of the gate. The ticket office was on the east side of the gate. In the 1980s, there was a kiosk for Lu Guangming roast chicken on the side door of Dandong Cinema. At that time, Lu Guangming roast chicken was the best roast chicken in Dandong.

This street at the side door of Dandong Cinema leads to Guangji Street. There is a carving factory on this street that carves Xiuyu . I often look in through the window and find it amazing.

Dandong Cinema is close to Xin'an Street to the west. Next to it is a food factory. It makes biscuits and can be seen through the window. The fragrance wafts far away.

There was no pedestrian street at that time. Later, Xinliu Shopping Mall and Jinyuanbao Shopping Mall were built. The place was not lively. People were gathered around the two cinemas. After the opening of the pedestrian street, there were Xin'an Department Store and Xinyouyi Shopping Mall, which was a flash in the pan.

There is a blue brick house at the intersection of Xin'an Street and Guangji Street. There is a book club on Guangji Street. Someone is talking about storytelling . He is young and has no money to listen to it. Now that I have money, not only is the book club gone, but I can’t find Guangji Street.

In the early 1980s, the market gradually flourished, and the entire Xin'an Street was filled with clothing sellers, and the road was full of stalls and there were also mobile hawkers.

Xin'an Street

Xin'an Street has been changed to a pedestrian street, it's really good, it feels like a city. Unexpectedly, I have built some mobile houses on the pedestrian street over the years, and it is so terrible that I feel like I have arrived at a market in a town.

Back then, from the block of Manchuria Railway affiliated to the block of Andong County, the street structure also changed from neat checkerboards to the shape of Bagua.

A city, two completely different architectural styles, have laid the foundation for the beauty of Dandong. The naturally beautiful Dandong and its unique climatic conditions have become more and more beautiful.

Unfortunately, these old buildings gradually disappeared under the erosion of time and were forgotten.

Autumn at this point, Dandong is late in autumn, and the ginkgo on the street has turned golden and started to fall. Autumn goes and winter comes, followed by spring, and then, the trees are full of green again. The old ones don’t go, and the new ones don’t come. The cycle of reincarnation in heaven and earth will definitely be better next year than this year.