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Kalgan’s Mongol Gate in 1935

Posted: August 4th, 2015 | No Comments »

I’m a little out of my knowledge zone here but as Zhangjiakou (aka Kalgan as used to be known) is now to be hosting much of the 2022 Winter Olympics I guess this will all get resolved. This 1935 picture is described as the “Mongol Gate” in Kalgan – i.e. it led towards Inner Mongolia. I think this gate was sometimes referred to as the “North Gate”, as it was north of Peking (and so coming from Mongolia was the northern entrance to the greater Beijing area) and is now the Dajing Gate (with a few adornments that were not originally there on top and at the sides).  The explorer Roy Chapman Andrews recalls having no end of trouble with the police trying to get through the gate back in the 1920s…hopefully the world’s bobsled and curling teams won’t have as much trouble in seven years time….

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Later – with a bit of build up around the sides and on top?



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