In the opening part of the hit drama some time ago, there was a scene of the old traffic booth passing by, which suddenly aroused my memory of the past years.
What impressed me the most were the two traffic booths. A road located near the "first bend in Asia" on the Bund of the original Yan'an East Road**. The traffic box is cylindrical in shape, with windows on top for traffic police officers to watch the road conditions on all sides, and below is a sealed wall painted with a pale yellow background and outlined with red lines. The entire sentry box is suspended on a steel beam, which is as high as a three-story building, and it is necessary to go up and down the stairs to enter and exit the sentry box. At the end of the 60s of the last century, when I was in the fourth grade of primary school, one afternoon I visited the Bund with Xiao Pengcheng and National Day in the alley to see the water scenery of the Huangpu River. Peng Cheng's eyes were sharp, and behind the crowd of people on the side of the lover's wall, he was the first to notice that a thief was stealing. He whispered to us, "There are thieves! We immediately stared at each other vigilantly, and when we saw that the thief had succeeded, we turned to leave, "What should I do?" In a hurry, he cried out: "Catch the thief!" "The thief was a thief with a weak heart, so he ran away with his feet and tried to escape in the direction of Yan'an East Road across the road. At that time, we didn't know the courage to come, and we all chased after it desperately. It was also a coincidence that this scene was discovered by the traffic police at the sentry box, and the thief was intercepted quickly and decisively. We panted and reported what had happened to the police uncle. The thief took out the stolen thirty dollars and returned it to the owner. The policeman's uncle kept praising us and invited us to go up to the booth to leave our names. We declined his kindness, and we were excited that night until the evening.
Another traffic booth is located on the west side of the original "Huaiguo Old" on Huaihai Road, close to the west side of the "Huaiguo Old" there was originally a Jade Bird Photo Studio, and not far from the photo studio door is the traffic booth. Its style is no different from the Bund sentry box, but it is not so high, and the base does not have steel beams. I remember it because my next-door neighbor's little brother almost went missing. My family's old house was in the alley near Lujiawan at the time, and my younger brother's family lived next door. My younger brother is 5 years younger than me, and he has two older sisters. My little brother likes to play with me. My fifth-grade younger brother just started school, and one day I took him to Fuxing Park to play, and after playing, he went out from the back door of Yandang Road to the white face of Huaihai Road's "Huaiguo Old", and was about to go home after a walk. Somehow, they got separated. I was in such a hurry! Sweating all over his body, he turned his head in the "old Huaiguo", and when he couldn't find it, he went to the store to find someone for help. Someone came up with an idea to report to the police for help. It can only be like this, I walked out of the "Huaiguo Old" and saw the police booth, thinking that the traffic police are also police, so I will ask for help first. When I got on the sentry box, an unexpected scene happened! The little brother is eating the biscuits given to him by the police in the sentry box, and there are tears in his eyes! When he saw me, he burst into tears and smiled. I was also relieved at once, "Thank you, Uncle Police!" I thanked me again and again, and secretly rejoiced.
After graduating from middle school, in early 1975, I took a group photo with three particularly good classmates at the Blue Bird Photo Studio near the "Huaiguo Old". We were all dressed in navy blue polyester tunics, with pens pinned to the left jacket pocket, and we looked like scholars. After taking a good photo, we waved goodbye at the traffic booth on Huaihai Road. More than forty years have passed in a flash, and the former traffic booth no longer exists. Times, landscapes, and the breath of life have changed. The four of us in the group photo, one of whom later went to New York University to study as a lawyer and now lives in California and has his own law firm; Another Tongji University graduated, worked as an architect in a design firm in Hong Kong, and is still busy; There is also an agricultural college (now Jiaotong University) after graduating into the municipal government office, and later went to the sea to do business, and also made a fortune, and now calligraphy and painting health. I was the only one who studied at a TV university, and I have been working in a corporate office, and I still paint and smear myself after retirement, making myself happy. (Fu Guangda).