Mobile Food Sellers of Yesteryear

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Junction of bras Basah Rd and Victoria Street

This the Red House which is now Carlton Hotel.

 

[johnny333]

Saturday midnight show or good Chinese kung fu Movies , always make us extra cash, selling tickets double the price.....song song y y.

Curious as to what you did if you couldn't sell those tickets?

Those days got midnight shows, hawker stalls opened until the wee hours, shops that were opened until late at night. The night was alive

Nowadays everyone must rush to catch the last bus

 

[elephanto]

Junction of bras Basah Rd and Victoria Street

This the Red House which is now Carlton Hotel.

This must be late 70s early 80s. NTUC Taxi is all light blue with the words at the side. No fancy logo.

SBS Bus - this type from Bristish leyland the most popular ... quite bone-shattering when the drivers speed because the sliding windows normally rattle in their tracks ....

 

[moolightaffairs]

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wow! that is a discreet place for outing! i remember the health centre very well!
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Wah, go so far to answer the call of nature...!!!
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Leisure health centre my virgin HC call
also hang out at Tradewind KTV one floor lower .....

yeah! full of memories! HC and KTV@Leisuredrome! got kallang theater also right? still there?

 

[elephanto]

People remember this in your schooldays ....

Unlimited travel, unlimited changing of bus .... no more such luck for present day student concession pass holders......

 

[halsey02]

My case slightly better than yours, got enough $ for dinner .... but pak tor pak to until past midnight, with mid-night surcharge $ no enough ....

Lan lan my brother help by coming to drive us & help me send girl home ... malu

My version of having to call for help, at that time no cell phone, we have to use the public phone wasn't easy, finding one that is working was another story. It was Christmas early morning after a celebration with gf at a disco in orchard rd., never mind the midnight charge, there were more people than taxis..walked all the way to Selegie Rd....finally found a working pay phone, knew that my neighbour would be home by then 3am...got him to drive down to fecth as home...really embarassing...swore that if I have to do this again..I get transportation in advance...

:p

 

[halsey02]

This must be late 70s early 80s. NTUC Taxi is all light blue with the words at the side. No fancy logo.

SBS Bus - this type from Bristish leyland the most popular ... quite bone-shattering when the drivers speed because the sliding windows normally rattle in their tracks ....

That's the bakery that sells Hot Cross Buns, during Lent..which is now... tks

 

[halsey02]

People remember this in your schooldays ....

Unlimited travel, unlimited changing of bus .... no more such luck for present day student concession pass holders......

Show your handsome face....

 

[elephanto]

from the earlier 1977 student bus pass to this 1980 SBS student bus pass .... note the change in logo for SBS ....

 

[johnny333]

Good shot of the Wisma Indonesia on the right.

In the background on the right is the Ngee Ann buidling. Back then it was a highrise with apartments & shops at the ground level including Mont'Dor.

Construction of Orchard Road mall from Ming Court Hotel to Mandarin Hotel.

 

[elephanto]

Show your handsome face....

Where got keep for so long ...

Found image from google ... but Josephians will recognize the school stamp ... the principal then was Bro Joseph Kiely ! And 1C11 stands for Sec 1 Chinese Class 11 .... I know becos I also from SJI mah !

Then how racist can you get ? From sec 1C1, 1C2,.... 1M5, 1MC6 ,.....
serious, I kid you not.... 1M5 mostly all malays in that class, !MC6 very funny, got malays & chinese about 50:50, funny thing was then nobody felt anything untoward everything was just .... so normal.

That's truly color-blind in terms of race matters !
Today, all that would be politically incorrect .... old SJI boys of that era will concur.....

 

[elephanto]

Good shot of the Wisma Indonesia on the right.
In the background on the right is the Ngee Ann buidling. Back then it was a highrise with apartments & shops at the ground level including Mont'Dor.

You can see the chinese words on the white tall building in the left foreground ... Yen San Building still standing today in 2010 coming to 40 years now from 1970 or thereabouts ... the Wisma indonesia has that Chinese niteclub 'Hai Yen' ... to its left is the Orchard Rd Police Stattion - now Ion orchard...

 

[halsey02]

Good shot of the Wisma Indonesia on the right.

In the background on the right is the Ngee Ann buidling. Back then it was a highrise with apartments & shops at the ground level including Mont'Dor.

Mont'Dor....cakes...hmmm...those today had not see WISMA INDONESIA..they know only WISMA ATRIA, or Ngee Ann Building..on TSC..."those were they days, my friend, I thought they never end'..sigh! the Orchard Rd we all knew....

 

[johnny333]

Then how racist can you get ? From sec 1C1, 1C2,.... 1M5, 1MC6 ,.....
serious, I kid you not.... 1M5 mostly all malays in that class, !MC6 very funny, got malays & chinese about 50:50, funny thing was then nobody felt anything untoward everything was just .... so normal.

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In ACS if one were taking bahasa melayu or Tamil they put the students in the same class. There were some who took mandarin but they had to go next door whenever it was time for 2nd language lessons.

 

[halsey02]

You can see the chinese words on the white tall building in the left foreground ... Yen San Building still standing today in 2010 coming to 40 years now from 1970 or thereabouts ... the Wisma indonesia has that Chinese niteclub 'Hai Yen' ... to its left is the Orchard Rd Police Stattion - now Ion orchard...

Yen San Building was sold to DBS land...it is, is it still known as xx Orchard Rd?.....was there a Jack's Place somewhere near Yen San Building....??:p

 

[balajii]

Where got keep for so long ...

Found image from google ... but Josephians will recognize the school stamp ... the principal then was Bro Joseph Kiely ! And 1C11 stands for Sec 1 QUOTE]

i still have my sec sch bus card. from sec 1 keep til sec 4. somewhere in the storeroom lah.

likewise i also kept the very last day coupon of the ERP (forgot last time call what. those u need to come out from the car and buy from the booth type).

also kept some 10cts and 25cts bus tickets. those the bus conductor will punch a hole type.

 

[johnny333]

The success of this thread obviously means that this forum is infested with old farts.

Shouldn't be a surprise as Spore is greying & its usually the older Sporeans who are worried with what's going on in Spore.

 

[johnny333]

Yen San Building was sold to DBS land...it is, is it still known as xx Orchard Rd?.....was there a Jack's Place somewhere near Yen San Building....??:p

Thats where Citibank used to be located,

Glad they relocated to MacDonald House which is more convenient if you use the MRT.

 

[HTOLAS]

Well that guy who owned the SJI bus pass might remember being told that behind the walls on the right of the picture was temptation to SIN.

Junction of bras Basah Rd and Victoria Street

This the Red House which is now Carlton Hotel.

 

[elephanto]

likewise i also kept the very last day coupon of the ERP (forgot last time call what. those u need to come out from the car and buy from the booth type).

Walau! Balaji, you compulsive hoarder izzit ?

last time is called ALS (Area Licencing Scheme), the disc can be bought at Petrol Station also, as late as '97 I was still buying them ....