The Bruce Lee Saga Continues

Bruce Lee, considered by many as one the most famous martial arts superstars of all time, left this world over 36 years ago.

The Bruce Lee saga continues till this day and will continue to be a topic for decades to come.

If everything goes according to plan, Bruce Lee fans and martial arts enthusiasts worldwide are in for a treat. I will tell you in a minute why that is.

Besides residing in the United States, Bruce Lee also had a Hong Kong residence during the last couple of his adult years up to his untimely passing in 1973.

It is located in Kowloon Tong and due to the vicinity to the former Hong Kong airport, Kai Tak, houses there were not allowed to be built any higher than 2-3 stories as far as I was told.

On one of my numerous business trips to the former British colony during the early Nineties, I actually had a Saturday off and so I jumped on the subway, aka MTR (Mass Transit Railway), to check it out.

After getting off the train and leaving the MTR station, I asked a local policeman how to get there and it was actually pretty easy to find at 41 Cumberland Road.

Honestly, I was expecting some really impressive mansion or whatever, but the house I remembered was very subdued. Probably just the way the former owner wanted it for privacy reasons. And who could blame him?!

Anyway, the house (that has been a romance hotel!) was sold again several months ago to a philanthropic Hong Kong businessman, who is in his Eighties and who would love to see the house become The Bruce Lee Museum.

I learnt just 10 days ago that Shannon Lee, daughter of Bruce Lee, was on her way over to the Big Kong for further talks on this issue.

Let’s keep our fingers crossed that they can work out a deal everybody is happy with real soon.

This would be awesome, don’t you think?