I said some time ago that I would start a thread called "This is Singapore".
Well here is first installment.
I have found a lot of pictures of Singapore scenery's taken mostly in the 1960s, with some maybe a bit older and some a bit newer.
Yesterday I eventually got around to take my simple "Point n' Click" camera along on a walk to some of the places featured in the old pictures to see if I could capture the somewhat same view as it is today.
To start it off, I went to a place I remember from my first visit to Singapore as a "Green Horn" in 1959 and which I have always remembered as the typical Singapore of that time:

I have had a copy of this picture on my office wall for some time.
This in New Bridge Road on the Left and Eu Tong Sen Street on the right, with the most prominent building being the Great Southern Hotel on the right.
There is a Storm Drain between these two parallel streets, over which various shacks were standing on "stilts", serving as shops. The drain also served as open sewer for these shops. (You could smell Singapore before you could see it in those days)
At night there were Street Performers of all kinds, Indian Snake Charmers and Chinese Snake Oil sellers etc. and thriving food carts selling just about any kind of food you could think of.
Here is the same scene now, taken from the pedestrian bridge between Chinatown Point and People's Park Centre:

Surprisingly many of the original buildings are still there, since this the "preserved" Chinatown is to the left.
The Great Southern Hotel, which is now a China speciality Shop is still there:

As is the Majestic Theater, which is now a Shopping Centre:

What is also still there, but hidden by the large and ugly structure on the right, which is People's Park Complex, is the old Pearl Hill Police Station:

No longer in use but gazetted as a historical building and thus to be preserved.
The old Police Barrack is still in use for something. (I'm not sure what):

These two building can be seen and recognized on the old picture.
The tall building in the distance is part of Singapore general Hospital and still there.
On the other side of the street is a mixture of new and old as it is part of Chinatown, what little is left and preserved:

The old Storm Drain is still there, but partly covered (as seen above)
In the other direction it is still open, but no longer used to throw garbage:

If anybody do they are liable to a fine of up to $1000.
More like this when time permits.
Well here is first installment.
I have found a lot of pictures of Singapore scenery's taken mostly in the 1960s, with some maybe a bit older and some a bit newer.
Yesterday I eventually got around to take my simple "Point n' Click" camera along on a walk to some of the places featured in the old pictures to see if I could capture the somewhat same view as it is today.
To start it off, I went to a place I remember from my first visit to Singapore as a "Green Horn" in 1959 and which I have always remembered as the typical Singapore of that time:

I have had a copy of this picture on my office wall for some time.
This in New Bridge Road on the Left and Eu Tong Sen Street on the right, with the most prominent building being the Great Southern Hotel on the right.
There is a Storm Drain between these two parallel streets, over which various shacks were standing on "stilts", serving as shops. The drain also served as open sewer for these shops. (You could smell Singapore before you could see it in those days)
At night there were Street Performers of all kinds, Indian Snake Charmers and Chinese Snake Oil sellers etc. and thriving food carts selling just about any kind of food you could think of.
Here is the same scene now, taken from the pedestrian bridge between Chinatown Point and People's Park Centre:

Surprisingly many of the original buildings are still there, since this the "preserved" Chinatown is to the left.
The Great Southern Hotel, which is now a China speciality Shop is still there:

As is the Majestic Theater, which is now a Shopping Centre:

What is also still there, but hidden by the large and ugly structure on the right, which is People's Park Complex, is the old Pearl Hill Police Station:

No longer in use but gazetted as a historical building and thus to be preserved.
The old Police Barrack is still in use for something. (I'm not sure what):

These two building can be seen and recognized on the old picture.
The tall building in the distance is part of Singapore general Hospital and still there.
On the other side of the street is a mixture of new and old as it is part of Chinatown, what little is left and preserved:

The old Storm Drain is still there, but partly covered (as seen above)
In the other direction it is still open, but no longer used to throw garbage:

If anybody do they are liable to a fine of up to $1000.
More like this when time permits.
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