with all due respect to The Animals I have always wondered what that house in New Orleans looks like. I’ve been to NO but nothing looked right and it was only the other day that I realized that we have the very house here in Hong Kong.
If you take a look at the building known as The Pawn (after the bar and restaurant that occupies floors 2, 3 and 4) it looks just like what I imagine the Animals had in mind. Although if they can really remember if be surprised.
It sits in the middle of modern high rises shrugging its shoulders at the neighbors as it stares down Johnston road – looking like a throwback to times that many people who were there will have no recollection of. This feeling of a history that is perhaps not as salubrious as it could have been is reinforced as you climb up a narrow staircase that snakes round to the bar.
I know the building is traditional but to me it just looks well a little seedy. I love it.
The Burble 