Down Memory Lane - were you in the pics?

[zeddy]

Heading to Changi Village on Nicoll Drive..... near Telok Paku?

My guess is this narrow road is the road outside of Selarang Camp leading all the way to Changi Village.. That stretch of road is still in use till now.. Only that part of Changi has narrow roads identical to this pic.. Bus No 2 and 29 are the only buses that go through that route..

 

[zeddy]

Changi village jetty.... view from footbridge across river

My dad used to dive from the Changi jetty with his kampung kakis during his younger days..

 

[Force 136]

Where's Odeon? We seen a few of Capitol, Cathay. But Odeon also a nice memory, saw my 1st Bruce Lee there

Got great Fried Kway Teow at coffee shop next to Odeon .....

 

[Force 136]

Did you grow up in District 3?

Queenstown Cinema...

Golden City and Venus.... next to emporium.....(Tai Chong?) ...

Margaret Drive

 

[Force 136]

Chong Pang.....

 

[Force 136]

When you travel from Clementi to Pasir Panjang, you will not miss this mosque......remember?

 

[zeddy]

Another fond memory for me personally is the old Clifford Pier..When I started working in the early 2000s, we used to alight from a boat taxi there each time we came back from our offshore job trips.. Blew my first pay on a 2nd hand Dunhill lighter that was sold at a Mama shop in Change Alley..

 

[zhihau]

The Great Flood of 1978.... were you affected? Spend a night in office/school?

wah piang... was around Langsat Road then, remembered seeing shit floating around! centipedes, cockroaches swimming. and a couple of streets down the road, few of my neighbors changed into their swimming trunks too!

 

[Semaj2357]

Seeing the backdrop of Oberoi Imperial reminds me of those CLubbing days at the EL Morocco Discotheque..

And the Indian restaurant RANG MAHAL.
They also had the first restaurant specialising in snails, appropriately named E'CARGOTS.[/QUOTE]

had my first taste of fondue there too.

 

[eatshitndie]

That black car to the right of the photo is not an original Mini; it is the Morris Minor, made in UK. Mini did not exist in that era which became famous after the film "Italian Job" starring Steve McQueen was shown in 1970s.

the mini mark i went into production in 1959. it was also called the austin mini and the morris mini-minor. the morris minor was a much bigger car with a rounder top. you can still see many of their replicates in india today.

 

[Leongsam]

That black car to the right of the photo is not an original Mini; it is the Morris Minor, made in UK. Mini did not exist in that era which became famous after the film "Italian Job" starring Steve McQueen was shown in 1970s.

The car I'm referring to is the one behind the motorbike.

 

[eatshitndie]

The car I'm referring to is the one behind the motorbike.

he was looking at the pic with mata shorts and pierre jardin, my good friend, in the foreground. :p

 

[Debonerman]

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[zhihau]

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[halsey02]

My bad. I deduced from the construction going on the site of shaw house which was built in 1958.

Next to Tropicana on Claymore Hill? cannot be Shaw House, which was next to the Cinema, can it be the construction for Shaw Centre?

 

[cedric]

This is the end of Jalan Besar where it crosses over Rochor Canal After the canal was where in the 70s the first CBD toll booths were installed That building on the top floor was the Spore Judo club and on ground floor was Ong Ban Hock motor spare [parts for Nissan Prince Daihatsu parts I left Spore in late 1970s due to the fu..ed up PAP policies I of which was taking over your property for pittance and no reason May the whole Lee clan I day get the rightfull punishment they fully deserve and rot in Hell IF they are even allowed in

 

[halsey02]

Another fond memory for me personally is the old Clifford Pier..When I started working in the early 2000s, we used to alight from a boat taxi there each time we came back from our offshore job trips.. Blew my first pay on a 2nd hand Dunhill lighter that was sold at a Mama shop in Change Alley..

The small shops on the over head bridge is all gone & sure bring back memories, used to eye the Russian dolls they sells, you know the ones you open, & the dolls from bigger they get to the smallest; back them, I consider them too expensive. Every now & then, the Russian sailors & others would sell their hand made wooden model ships & other hand works & the shop owners will display them....they sell for $25-$50 back then.....expensive!!

The small shops were a treasure hunt...they have all sorts of things pertaining to the SAILING...semaphore flags,maps, compass, hurricane lamps, ship bells, etc.. & then one would go to change alley the opposite side , another 'wonderland' back then. I used to buy my perfume cheap from a mama shop there, back then...."Paco Robane"...cheaper than Robinson's, Metro & C.K. Tang...memories..

 

[sirus]

They turned this beautiful spot into a car park today.....pui...pui...

To the left is the National Theatre.

 

[zeddy]

The small shops on the over head bridge is all gone & sure bring back memories, used to eye the Russian dolls they sells, you know the ones you open, & the dolls from bigger they get to the smallest; back them, I consider them too expensive. Every now & then, the Russian sailors & others would sell their hand made wooden model ships & other hand works & the shop owners will display them....they sell for $25-$50 back then.....expensive!!

The small shops were a treasure hunt...they have all sorts of things pertaining to the SAILING...semaphore flags,maps, compass, hurricane lamps, ship bells, etc.. & then one would go to change alley the opposite side , another 'wonderland' back then. I used to buy my perfume cheap from a mama shop there, back then...."Paco Robane"...cheaper than Robinson's, Metro & C.K. Tang...memories..

Sigh... They totally changed the whole place now.. Bought few Zippos from the Mama shop there as well.. One of the shops at the old Change Alley now relocated at Golden Landmark..

 

[yinyang]

Got great Fried Kway Teow at coffee shop next to Odeon .....

The famous beef noodles morphed from side road, to opposite Odeon. 30 mins waiting time SOP. Next got into Scott's food court (was it the 1st food court?).

Other thing on Odeon, was this unique car park 'shift' -previous slot's clearing up for the next.