Golden Taiwan Travels (1967) – S5-E29
Travel with Eryk and John as they explore Taiwan using the 1967 edition of a long-forgotten guidebook: The Golden Guide to South & East Asia. Taiwan was then a new travel destination full of rewards for the tourist willing to get off the beaten path. Listen and learn what you can take into the country (half a pound of pipe tobacco) and what you can’t (roulette wheel). Find out where to visit, shop, eat and stay. Feast on Mongolian barbecue, visit a “hideous” giant statue, find the girlie bars unknown to the GIs, and go fishing without leaving your hotel.
Cover image left: The Florida Bakery in Taipei circa 1965, photo courtesy of Scott Ellinger, via Taipei Signal Army.blogspot.com. Jack Hornbeck; courtesy of Taipei Air Station.blogspot.com. Right: Nightlife just around the corner from the Florida Bakery, also circa 1965. Photo by Mike Hime; courtesy of Webmaster@dawgflight.com. Center is the 1967 edition of travel guidebook, The Golden Guide to South & East Asia. The 1967 version may be available somewhere, but the 1971 edition is on sale on eBay.
Taiwan was then a new travel destination full of rewards for the tourist willing to get off the beaten path. Listen and learn what you can take into the country (half a pound of pipe tobacco) and what you can’t (roulette wheel). Find out where to visit, shop, eat and stay. Feast on Mongolian barbecue, visit a “hideous” giant statue, find the girlie bars unknown to the GIs, and go fishing without leaving your hotel.
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