In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the original Gaudi Street was not only the world of clothes, but also hardware, wool, leather goods, electronic watches, calculators and so on. On October 1, 1980, the Industrial and Commercial Bureau was established and issued licenses for traders operating in Gaudi Street. Gaudi Street Garment Industrial Products Market became the first industrial product market in Guangzhou and even in the country. Since then, Gaudi Street has become a sea of clothing. At that time, small vendors had to pay 1 yuan a day to the street, and there was no tax. Two or three years after 1986, Gaudí Street ushered in its heyday. Many non-local people ask: How to get to Gaudi Street? “Going to the market”, you have to look at it if you don’t buy anything, and there is even a rhetoric that “if you don’t go to Gaudi Street in Guangzhou, you have never been to Guangzhou”. During its heyday, it dominated the clothing wholesale market in the whole country, and even Hong Kong merchants came here to order.
In the late 1980s, there were 200,000 visitors a day on Gaudi Street, and there were many visitors from outside the city. At that time, Gaudi Street was overcrowded. It took almost an hour to walk from the Beijing intersection of Gaudi Street to the uprising intersection. Familiar residents sometimes simply skip the “right way” in order to save time, but pass through the dwellings. At that time, a large number of merchants from Northeast China, North China and East China went south to Guangzhou to purchase the latest fashionable clothing or just some samples on Gaudi Street, and then left in a dusty environment.
Those who made their first pot of gold on Gaudi Street still clearly remember the good times of space jacket jeans, in addition to wool, acrylic, glass inch (nylon shirts), T-shirts, bodybuilding pants, and now Children’s clothing, swimsuits, men’s and women’s underwear, magic bras, popular colors perfectly express his historical evolution on people’s bodies. At that time, the merchants could make hundreds of dollars a day in Gaudi Street. More than 10 years ago, there were many millionaires in Gaudi Street. Although today’s Gaudi Street is not as majestic as in the past, its status still has an excellent reputation in Guangzhou’s clothing market, and its huge accumulation comes from all over the country and even at home and abroad.
Main business: T-shirts, fitness pants, children’s clothing, swimwear, underwear for men and women, magic bras
Market address: Gaudi Street, Beijing Road, Guangzhou
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