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2006 PHOTO COURTESY JUJU WANG Days later, demolition of home No. 4 is in progress. Details: In 1959, No. 4 was occupied by its first residents, Colonel Dosch, his wife and daughters, Nancy and Karen. |
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PHOTO COURTESY JUJU WANG This is the interior of the old swimming pool building during demolition. Our camera is situated at the location were two men were sitting in the poolside photograph of Dorothy and Diana shown on this page, third picture, in the Hsinchu Compound section. The area with the exposed wood framing was the location of the snack bar. |
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Before the demolition, the compound looked something like this December 2002 Google Earth Imagery. The annotations for known house numbers and notes on other features of the area. Details: The yellow letters are Bruce’s arbitrary key to the housing units. |
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SOME PHOTOS COURTESY JUJU WANG By August 2006 much of the demolition was complete, as suggested by the large photo inset in the above diagram of the compound. The diagram is meant to show what part of the compound was shown by that photograph. Details of the compound are suggested by the smaller photos. Some house numbers are shown. The color of the building shapes merely indicates the recent color of the roofs. The building shape shown as a dashed line represents the duplex that was removed due to a fire. The plot of the burned duplex became a small park and playground. The MAAG Compound was probably lucky to survive the twenty-first century, considering how valuable land must have become in burgeoning Hsinchu, the now technical center of Taiwan, one the of the Four Asian Tigers. Details: The Rayle’s old No. 3 home is sits under the date stamp on the large insert photograph. The Jefferson’s old No. 2 home is in the lower left corner of the photo. Major Armstong’s old quarters sits across the street from the Rayle’s home.
Legacy
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PHOTO COURTESY JUJU WANG The United States MAAG people left behind ordinary but nevertheless foreign (to Taiwan) western products in garage sales. During 1959, an unknown MAAG family sold these kitchen items to a Mrs. Cool (her translated English name.) Details: Parfait glasses, serving plates with decorations reminiscent of English dinner ware, green cereal bowls, Pyrex casserole dish, Pyrex pie dish and a gilt-edge dinner plate. Interesting sidebar to this, the Chinese were known to have produced the first “china ware” and are recognized for producing some of the finest porcelain ware. |