have any oldies here heard about this?

erection2015 · Nov 27, 2012

was having drinks a few hours back with my former neighbour ... and a few of his friends popped by.

One of the chat items was about amusement parks in Sinkiepoor.

Everyone knows about happy/gay world....new world and great world.....but one of the guys who is in his 60s claimed that there was

another one....Eastern world. He said it was supposed to be the biggest of the lot and was located in the Geylang area but never took off.

Any of you guys know about this? Certainly not me.

GoldenDragon · Nov 27, 2012

Where's bro kohlianthye?

erection2015 · Nov 27, 2012

ya he's got a good memory

GoldenDragon said:
Where's bro kohlianthye?

GoldenDragon · Nov 27, 2012

erection2011 said:
ya he's got a good memory

Elephant memory.

erection2015 · Nov 27, 2012

ya ....interesting reading some of his stuff......he even remembered the vehicle with the 36 doors.

Supplied pic some more.

GoldenDragon said:
Elephant memory.

chuckyworld · Nov 27, 2012

Me only remember seeing the live circus, when they came to our estate, lions and tigers in cage, elephants feeding on grass with their leg chain, and what a big shit when they poo.

We do go around the cage and look at the tigers and lions.

climate of the show is when they ride bikes inside a round steel cage......:p

lee6100 · Nov 27, 2012

erection2011 said:
was having drinks a few hours back with my former neighbour ... and a few of his friends popped by.

One of the chat items was about amusement parks in Sinkiepoor.

Everyone knows about happy/gay world....new world and great world.....but one of the guys who is in his 60s claimed that there was

another one....Eastern world. He said it was supposed to be the biggest of the lot and was located in the Geylang area but never took off.

Any of you guys know about this? Certainly not me.

Could be this one - but not in Geylang:

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The Beauty World Park was a popular market and shopping destination in Singapore during the 1960s. Located at the junction between Upper Bukit Timah Road and Jalan Jurong Kechil, the market comprised over a hundred stalls that sold all kinds of daily necessities such as fresh produce, household items, textiles and stationery. It was also a venue for getai performances and Hungry Ghost Festival celebrations.
The origin of the market dates back to the Japanese Occupation where an amusement park called the Da Dong Ya or Greater East Asia Amusement Park operated at the site. Prior to the Japanese Occupation, the site on which the Beauty World Park once stood was rural land occupied by attap houses as well as mangosteen and pineapple plantations. The area was badly destroyed by bombs during the Japanese invasion.

In the early months of the Japanese Occupation, two Hokchia businessmen, Mr. Yuan and Mr. Yan, sought permission from the Japanese authorities to run an amusement park at the seventh milestone along Upper Bukit Timah Road. Taking its name from the Japanese order of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, the entertainment centre was called Da Dong Ya or Greater East Asia Amusement Park.

The park had stages for wayang and getai, a dance hall, coffee parlours, a cinema which screened Japanese and old Chinese films, amusements for children, food stalls and a large gambling hall. The stage was sometimes used by the Japanese for speech meetings to rally local support for the war cause. However most of the patrons visited the park for its food and gambling stalls. At that time, gambling, as a form of recreation, was used to divert the people's attention from the sufferings of the Occupation years. The gambling games offered at the park included Fan-tan, Dominoes and the popular Twelve-character Lottery. The park operated from 6 pm until 11 pm, and was frequented by locals as well as Japanese soldiers and their families. Each entry cost $0.20 in banana currency.

Beauty World Park
After the Japanese surrender, the amusement park declined in popularity and fell into disrepair. Permission was obtained from the British authorities to convert the amusement park into a market, and the Beauty World Market opened in July 1947. The market was named after the daughter of one of the owners, Mr. Giam. The name also made reference to its prior existence as an amusement park. At that time, entertainment parks were commonly named after "Worlds" such as Happy World, New World and Great World.

The marketplace was a hotchpotch of metal and attap shacks, gambling dens, and stalls selling various items from food, textiles, radio and television sets, cosmetics, books, flowers, hardware, sports equipment, antiques and woodcarvings, curios to accessories. The market also had stages for shows and drinks with hostesses known as "coffee fires". A fresh market, which opened till the late afternoon, sold meat, fish and vegetables to residents living nearby.

In 1962, the market expanded with the addition of the Beauty World Town. The town had stores selling clothes, shoes, textiles, toys, bags, books, bed linens, household appliances, cosmetics, jewellery, music recordings, sundry, Chinese medicine, and hair styling services amongst others. To represent the interests of the tenants and shopkeepers of the town, the Beauty World Town Shopkeeper Association Singapore was formed in 7 January 1967. The market and town grew in popularity, drawing people from places as far as Lim Chu Kang, Choa Chu Kang, Mandai, Woodlands, Holland Road and Ulu Pandan.

Beauty World Centre
Beauty World Park suffered from several bouts of fire, including two major incidences on 20 April 1975 and 7 August 1977. Due to the traffic, health, fire, electrical and drainage hazards posed by the park, the government acquired the land for redevelopment on 8 September 1975. By the mid-1970s, talks were underway to relocate the tenants and shopkeepers to a nearby site. On January 1984, the construction of the Beauty World Centre, a $45 million residential cum retail building, was completed. Most of the tenants and shopkeepers resettled there. Ownership of the Beauty World Centre transferred from the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) to Pidemco in 1989. Pidemco, in turn, sold the shopping centre for close to $80 million to 194 individual buyers through the Beauty World Centre Merchants Association in 1998.

WHITEWOLF · Nov 27, 2012

Your friend mistaken it with Tong Fung Pu Pai - The East is Invincible

CandiceChan · Nov 27, 2012

WHITEWOLF said:
Your friend mistaken it with Tong Fung Pu Pai - The East is Invincible

Hi there,

You seem to be in a hurry to hit your post count to reach 50. :biggrin:

WHITEWOLF · Nov 27, 2012

CandiceChan said:
Hi there,

You seem to be in a hurry to hit your post count to reach 50.

Thank you bro, for helping me to think of topics to post. I'm drying out soon so motivation is important at this stage. :biggrin:

eatshitndie · Nov 27, 2012

i'm old, but not that old. :biggrin:

WHITEWOLF · Nov 27, 2012

eatshitndie said:
i'm old, but not that old.

LOL...that's the spirit bro. :biggrin:

Narong Wongwan · Nov 27, 2012

My first thought was wonderland....now converted to indoor soccer pitches

halsey02 · Nov 27, 2012

eatshitndie said:
i'm old, but not that old.

all of us are old, but never that old...have you hung around outside those "ants till you c" clubs??...you will see a lot of " we are not that old"... ha ha ha ha

palden · Nov 27, 2012

In geylang, now still have happy world.

streetsmart73 · Nov 27, 2012

hi there

1. erect, sorry hoh!
2. me, really not that old leh.
3. probably, kopiuncle may be able to help on this :biggrin:

4. well, he is 90 without teeth mah!

SingaporeNINJA · Nov 27, 2012

palden said:
In geylang, now still have happy world.

Yes, i saw that too. Hehe.

eatshitndie · Nov 27, 2012

halsey02 said:
all of us are old, but never that old...have you hung around outside those "ants till you c" clubs??...you will see a lot of " we are not that old"... ha ha ha ha

if aunties were to claim "not that old lah", i will run. :biggrin:

eatshitndie · Nov 27, 2012

palden said:
In geylang, now still have happy world.

do you mean "happy ending" world?

erection2015 · Nov 27, 2012

i'm 38 .....been 38 for the last 2 decades or so.

eatshitndie said:
i'm old, but not that old.

have any oldies here heard about this?

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