at 4:08, tourist promotion video of sg in the 50s says "at a moment's walk from such luxury is a new world, albeit ancient world. all around this island, fishermen stand in the warm sea casting their nets for prawns." if sg wasn't a fishing village nor prawn village then, the video would have depicted so. this proves once and for all that sg was mostly mangrove swamps, coconut groves, and fishing kampongs along her coastline, except for the riverfront and harbor area which comprised colonial buildings.