Old days pics to share...

[Altivo]

Thanks so much for the memories! St Matthew's was my kindergarten! Keong Siak and then adjoining Duxton Plains was my playground!

 

I actually didn't know what Keong Siak Rd was all about till very much later - always looking in awe at the red lanterns

 

No pics of the Crocodile factory?

 

i was from St Matt kindergarten as well... next to it was the creepy looking Fairfield Methodist Girls School (now become co-ed leow) .....

[Number19]

Thanks for pointing that out I was unsure so i put 'should be bencoolen'

[Carchngchia]

Ah....A&W.It was hip to go to this place. Remember their super sweet ice cold Root Beer in a thick mug? Shiok shiok on a hot day!

[Dumb]

In my days we normally would tell the pirate cab to drop us at almost end of Bencoolen Street and from there we walked to school. If the cab turned to Bras Basah, the price would be different from 20c or 30c up by 10c.

Edited February 20, 2007 by Dumb

[Nephilim]

i was from St Matt kindergarten as well... next to it was the creepy looking Fairfield Methodist Girls School (now become co-ed leow) .....

 

When were you there? I'm from class of '77-'78

[Dumb]

Tree Planting aka "Gotong Royong".

 

The bus ticket looks familiar same as those stamps. I used to collect stamps when I was a baby so I can still remember them.

 

Can't believe you collect stamps when you were a baby. Baby only goes for breast milk in those days. You forgot that?

 

Sometimes no breast milk, we got condensed milk - Dutch Baby!

Edited February 20, 2007 by Dumb

[Altivo]

i'm born in 78... so my batch would be 83-84

[Ferrari7]

Fiat EXPERT!!!!

[Dumb]

Rgd Bukit Batok stairs, yup that's the one and looking at your photos that place hasn't changed a bit!

 

Rgding the Merdeka Bridge lions (think there were 2 of them - one at each end), last I heard ST reported they are now housed somewhere in SAFTI Camp.

 

I remembered ST also reported that one of the lions was dumped somewhere in the stadium area.

[Dumb]

Bugis Street. Those days u can see all the ang mo there who were attracted by many beautiful transvestites who wud sometimes strip & dance around the tables for the ang mo's. Then they wud run when the police came to arrest them.

 

Bugis Street was then very well known for Gu Bak Keow Tiau Quite a number of them.

[Inimatad]

Ah....A&W.It was hip to go to this place. Remember their super sweet ice cold Root Beer in a thick mug? Shiok shiok on a hot day!

 

Hehee...used to take the mug home in my school bag..

[Pisces69]

Their Root Beer float was a specialty. Their RB is different taste from F&N Sarsi.

 

I also enjoyed their super unhealthy burgers with fries. But those days I cud eat junk food all day long.

 

And we cud drive in & park right in front. Plus was free parking.

[Pisces69]

Hee hee. Cos I'm not that old leh. So I must have been a baby when those things were around.

[Pisces69]

SAF NCO club. I enjoyed many a cheap beer there. Pity beer no more.

 

The Fiat 600 was super fast for such a small car. Rear engined 600cc only.

[Pisces69]

Ya Lor......Now Only Drink .....Cheap Beer.......Import Beer Better....

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Beer Bintan

[Pisces69]

OH! This is the shop that faces the sea???? I tot it was the one that faced the Meridian Hotel.

 

That's why I was wondering how came it changed from Esso to Shell?????

[Pisces69]

Remember there's a huge blue "oil drum"-like structure near the junction of Lavender Road-Kallang Road?

 

It has been demolished for many years. Wonder who owned that building.

 

Got pics for that?

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Those blue "drums" were the tanks used to hold PUB gas & was known as Kallang Gasworks.

 

If u were observant, u wud have noticed the tanks can rise & fall depending how much gas was inside them.

 

It was removed as considered too dangerous as many houses were already built in the vicinity & if the tanks exploded, can u imagine how many pple wud b killed & injured.

[Pisces69]

The stone lions (2 I think?) were guarding Merdeka Bridge and Nicoll H'way. I believe the lions were removed & placed somewhere else. Issit Sentosa?