Casinos and Shopping Malls are Not The Answer

[Narong Wongwan]

How about Rex and the Jurong drive in theatre?
i rmb watching The Snake Prince there.

Rex was big back then being in town was always hip and happening.....its peers were cinemas like lido Cathay orchard Capitol and odeon.
Old chang kee started there as was the mckenzie Malay chicken rice stall.

 

[TracyTan866]

Rex was big back then being in town was always hip and happening.....its peers were cinemas like lido Cathay orchard Capitol and odeon.
Old chang kee started there as was the mckenzie Malay chicken rice stall.

Is Rex still operating at Bukit Timah/Serangoon road?

 

[TracyTan866]

How about Rex and the Jurong drive in theatre?
i rmb watching The Snake Prince there.

A drive-in in SG didn't seem very viable

 

[TracyTan866]

Rex was big back then being in town was always hip and happening.....its peers were cinemas like lido Cathay orchard Capitol and odeon.
Old chang kee started there as was the mckenzie Malay chicken rice stall.

You have good memories of the cinema scene. You must be an vivid cinema goer.I heard that the RA craze hit SG in the 1980s/90s. Is that accurate and were you familiar with the RA scene then?

 

[Batok Seri]

..I heard that the RA craze hit SG in the 1980s/90s...

Nicholas Cage was in almost every RA movie when they were first screened in Singapore.

 

[TracyTan866]

Nicholas Cage was in almost every RA movie when they were first screened in Singapore.

I thot HK Cat 3 movies were more popular then.

 

[Narong Wongwan]

You have good memories of the cinema scene. You must be an vivid cinema goer.I heard that the RA craze hit SG in the 1980s/90s. Is that accurate and were you familiar with the RA scene then?

Intro in 1991.
By Georgie Yeo who was ministar in charge.
First came all the obscure European soft porn.
Then cinemas test water by showing hk cat3 movies.
After that as usual they tweak and adjusted system till what we have today.

 

[TracyTan866]

Intro in 1991.
By Georgie Yeo who was ministar in charge.
First came all the obscure European soft porn.
Then cinemas test water by showing hk cat3 movies.
After that as usual they tweak and adjusted system till what we have today.

wow...good memory.

so, in your opinion, was the experiment success

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Is Rex still operating at Bukit Timah/Serangoon road?

Rex gone thru many transformations.
From ice skating rink to live threatre to hfj to indian disco etc.
Some associates of mine was going to turn it into a thai disco but deal fell thru.

 

[TracyTan866]

Rex gone thru many transformations.
From ice skating rink to live threatre to hfj to indian disco etc.
Some associates of mine was going to turn it into a thai disco but deal fell thru.

wow...colourful. what is rex being used as now?

 

[SAMMMYBOY]

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juz recalled a veLy oLd open air theatre in the 60s.
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Jubilee along west coast road.
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near the ex.Yusof Ishak sec school.
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[SAMMMYBOY]

wow...colourful. what is rex being used as now?

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tink still screening Tamil or Hindu movies.
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i dare not go there.
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[blackmondy]

There was a Kings and a Princess Cinema.

Was there a Queens Cinema or Prince Cinema?

If those existed, there should also be a Eunuch and Jester Cinema.

 

[jw5]

The jester cinema shows "The Mask Of Zorro" all year round.

If those existed, there should also be a Eunuch and Jester Cinema.

 

[zhihau]

What or where is Octagon?

Kallang Park, it's a place for tak chek kia, all go there to 诗歌朗诵 one... :p:p:p

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Kallang Park, it's a place for tak chek kia, all go there to 诗歌朗诵 one... :p:p:p

Marmota disco?
Hangout for motor gangs.....
The eh sai ones will dance on top the huge speakers....
Later years became a gay joint haha

 

[zhihau]

Was there a Queens Cinema or Prince Cinema?

There was a Prince, Raja too
Raja was next to Princess at Bedok, the Prince had to stay far away :p:p:p

 

[zhihau]

Marmota disco?
Hangout for motor gangs.....

Hehehe... Not sure leh, what was the name of the watering hole near Bencoolen and Princep St? Remembered the motor siao like to congregate there too... Slipped my mind :(:(:(

 

[GoldenDragon]

wow...colourful. what is rex being used as now?

Rex is jinxed. No biz prospered while located there. Used to chiong there. Should be 2000-2003.

 

[JOKERCHEW]

Rex is jinxed. No biz prospered while located there. Used to chiong there. Should be 2000-2003.

Then, should convert into a casino.