Remembering Singapore the way it was
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Construction site at Bendemeer Road 1970.
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Originally posted by viciouskitty74:
And those flat flat escalators that you can push a trolley on or run on at the airport. Its a novelty for us kids.Airport must have been your regular playground and the place where you ears kena pulled a lot by your parents>LOL mine is playing hide and seek with my younger siblings in any of those Chinese emporium but one time my sister got lost at 'The House of Wax' People Park Complex.My left ear became like Dumbo
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Originally posted by viciouskitty74:
Does anyone remember those rattan bicycle seats?
Or those round round rattan seats.....Do you have it in your home nowadays?
You mean this chair?
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Originally posted by viciouskitty74:
Bet no one here remembers that Parkway Parde Roof top used to be a children playground.
Or that its 2nd floor has a chuckee cheese.
can remember lah -
Originally posted by Short Ninja:
Airport must have been your regular playground and the place where you ears kena pulled a lot by your parents>LOL mine is playing hide and seek with my younger siblings in any of those Chinese emporium but one time my sister got lost at 'The House of Wax' People Park Complex.My left ear became like Dumbo
No wonder you fly all the way to Japan.
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
Something about Sentosa in the 70s.
Roller skating rink, Coralarium, Rare Stone Museum, Surrender Chambers, Fort Siloso, Apollo Sentosa, Fort Siloso before the monorail start in the 80s.
Back then the island was mainly for the local pure hearted SIngaporeans that was why it was so under developed>LOL
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
You mean this chair?
My memory wans have lot more spaces or gaps. I think what i have in mind, maybe can still find in Arab Street Rattan shops.Talk about rattan, and remind me of canes......those days, we ganna whacked till all those lines on the legs.....
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Originally posted by Short Ninja:
Airport must have been your regular playground and the place where you ears kena pulled a lot by your parents>LOL mine is playing hide and seek with my younger siblings in any of those Chinese emporium but one time my sister got lost at 'The House of Wax' People Park Complex.My left ear became like Dumbo
My parents dont believe in pulling our ears. We ganna the canes. -
Originally posted by viciouskitty74:
My memory wans have lot more spaces or gaps. I think what i have in mind, maybe can still find in Arab Street Rattan shops.Talk about rattan, and remind me of canes......those days, we ganna whacked till all those lines on the legs.....
You're are not alone, I also kena until terok terok.
I always go out to play and swim in Singapore River. After came home sure kena whack.
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
You mean this chair?
This was a favorite studio photo pose for babies born in the 60s now who knows maybe sitting on a Gundam Robot
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Originally posted by Short Ninja:
This was a favorite studio photo pose for babies born in the 60s now who knows maybe sitting on a Gundam Robot
Now they photo edit on the computers.
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
Construction site at Bendemeer Road 1970.
Thanks for posting pics like these Mr Chew.And Wow!! Check out the Bedford truck and forklift people! -
Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
No wonder you fly all the way to Japan.
Hahaha single engine plane -
Originally posted by Short Ninja:
Thanks for posting pics like these Mr Chew.And Wow!! Check out the Bedford truck and forklift people!Not forklift lah, just a small tractor. Very noisy type.
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Originally posted by viciouskitty74:
My memory wans have lot more spaces or gaps. I think what i have in mind, maybe can still find in Arab Street Rattan shops.Talk about rattan, and remind me of canes......those days, we ganna whacked till all those lines on the legs.....
And marks were so common that teachers only asked when there were no marks,one would say,'Why no corporal stripes on you today?' -
Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
Not forklift lah, just a small tractor. Very noisy type.
seriously at first I thought it was a forklift used by the ancient egyptians to move rocks>hahaha -
Remember last time, pierce my ears first time.
They use sewing needles!
Now they use those pierce ears guns!
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
And then there were the dark thick eyebrows and sloping neck t-shirt (from Flashdance) craze.
The local brands Heshe and 2nd Chance were all the rage then. Gucci, Lanvin and Cartier are the far away dream for many.
My dad bought me a Fila shirt way back then and told me it was expensive but what was the point when my classmates only knew the brand 'Gilford' -
Old
Current
Future.... LOL...
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
Remembered next to Mata Ikan was Ayer Gemuruh.
Dont find these kind of names anymore.Now the names are harder to remember maybe because the changes would come again all too soon -
My 3rd car Broward in 1961.
Old girl standing next to it. Cannot show you the face lah.
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
My 3rd car Broward in 1961.
Old girl standing next to it. Cannot show you the face lah.
Must be someone rich and famous........
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Originally posted by viciouskitty74:
Must be someone rich and famous........
Maybe my long lost uncle>LOL -
Originally posted by Short Ninja:
Maybe my long lost uncle>LOL
Basket!!!! You so fast 'recognise' relatives! -
Originally posted by ~N3RD~:
Old
Current
Future.... LOL...
You have the oldest one? Where the three lines end at Yishun,lakeside and Tampines