Next time I'm there, I will look out for you
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Next time I'm there, I will look out for you
look out for a dark-haired char bor slightly on the heavy side. my name used to be simon, but now you can call me simona. i, too, like samantha have been inspired by caitlyn.
Thought Ocean Park was built when Jackie Bowl was still operating?
Quite a few piu kia and piu char bor always congregate around that area. Will keep an eye and ear out for which one is you. Thanks for the hint :p
In case some pple are wondering where this kopitiam is, it's located directly in between Starbucks / Killiney kopitiam, and Lai Hock Sambal Fish/Crab restaurant. Starbucks itself is just across the road from the 24 hours Teochew Mui (plus 5 other food stalls) kopitiam (which is itself next to 24 hours NTUC FairPrice), and Starbucks is also located near the Treknology bike shop and Xing Wang café. In the opposite direction, further down from Lai Hock Sambal restaurant, would be the 24 hours Mas Ayu muslim kopitiam and Udders ice cream.
Google Maps StreetView is vastly superior to all other online map systems (which are only 2D maps) :
https://www.google.com.sg/maps/@1.3...ata=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sfsDGFkkgskvZo9G7va4heg!2e0
yes, it's in the corner of upper east coast and jalan tua kong. the lai hock restaurant is beneath a multi-storey apartment building where chickens thrive. every morning before 8, you would encounter young natural organic chickens walking free-range to killiney and across the road to ntuc and the 24-hour food court. they avoid starbucks as it's expensive and there's not a starfucks to be found as it's mostly an ang mo housewives' hangout during workdays. the sambal fish at lai hock is shiokingly spicy spectacular.
You planning a gathering for East Coast gang or to go try spot Simon/Simona
chickens walking around are more noticeable and interesting.
There was a Ocean Park Hotel where the Condo now stands. Jackie's Bowl was around the fringe though I can't recall the exact spot now
When I was in St Pat never went inside Jackie's Bowl. Bowling is an expensive game during my school.
Years later used to bowl at Jackie's. Almost every Saturday night we would punt with the bookie.
We played pin 5, those who play bowling know what I mean pin 5.
that is all the pins fall except pin nos. 5 stand. $1 is to $10.
Bowled there until almost the last days of Jackie's.
Wow all Singaporean staff in those days, wonder how come companies could survive then? Must be the rents killing them these days, so they need cheap foreigners to survive, or companies now becoming greedy and inefficient due to cheap labor.
Yes, rent is the major killer. Look at the pathetic businesses at shopping malls. Some shops have more staff than customers
Do you remember if Jackie's Bowl is where Ocean Park Condo now? I vaguely recall its around the area but can't pinpoint the spot.
Jackie was beside Ocean Park, nearer to the canal.
Later part the macdonalds east coast nearby also had a bowling alley.....was that operated by jackies as well? Or was it super bowl?
Let me share with you the history of Jackie's Bowl Katong and Orchard.
Mr Loke Wan Tho of Cathay Organization used to own Ocean Park Hotel together with nearby Cathay Keris Film Studio.
The late Mr Herbert Lim Eng Kuan was the grandson and son of Mr Lim Nee Soon and Mr Lim Chong Phang. Herbert's very beautiful wife Mavis Chew fell in love with Loke Wan Tho and she proceeded to divorce Herbert.
Loke Wan Tho felt very bad and sorry for Herbert and he offered to compensate Herbert with a block of 38,000 sq ft of freehold land at Ocean Park as a gift & the space for a bowling alley at the Orchard cinema at a rental of 10c psf for 50 years.
At that point of time Herbert was trying to bring into S'pore 10 pins bowling from America. He approached Mr Khoo Teck Puat and Mr Jackie Oei (descendent of Oei Tiong Ham) to become his business partners to set up the two bowling alleys in S'pore.
Herbert was the pioneer in S'pore 10 pins bowling and the two Jackie's bowling alleys were very profitable throughout their decades of operation.
Mr Loke Wan Tho divorced his very attractive & high profile socialite wife, Christina Lee to marry Mavis Chew in 1963. Less than a year later, very sadly Loke and Mavis perished in a plane crash in 1964 after they attended the 11th Asian Film Festival in Taiwan.
Dato Loke Wan Tho was only 49 years old.
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was the plane crash near taichung on june 20, 1964?
http://www.planecrashinfo.com/1964/1964.htm
details of 1964 crash in central taiwan....civil air transport plane was partially owned by cia. cia omitted the presence of 2 pistols hidden in thick radar manuals (with cutouts) in their findings. but taiwanese investigators revealed the recovery of pistols. it's still a mystery as to whether the plane was hijacked.
http://taiwanairpower.org/blog/?p=953
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Christina later married Dadi, boss of the 'perfume of orient'
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