Gone with the wind

During the Fifty and Sixties Geylang Serai had a handful of cinema screening Hindustani Movies & Bollywood craze had hit Singapore  they are Garrick, Queens, Taj (later renamed Singapura by Shaw Brothers)

The other cinemas around the area are Roxy, Palace, Ocean, Odeon Katong found along East Coast Road and Siglap.

For us as a teenage we are always watching shows at Haig Road (where they called is Government Quarters),  Ten cents is all needed to attend the show such as Orang Minyak, Pontianak, and lots comedy shows starring P. Ramlee, Wahid Satay, Aziz Sater, Ahmad Daud, Jin Shamsudin..etc.  We were also able to catch a free movie at the Old Joo Chiat Police Station and our very own Joo Chiat Community Centre.  When my son told me that Singapura had been demolished I decided to walk and take a look and true enough everything was gone only a piling rig and some excavators are found at the site today (see image) Luckily for me I still have an only single picture of the old Singapura which was capture during Hari Raya way back in 2005

Iconic Dragon Playground in Tao Payoh escapes demolition

Today's news in the newspaper reported that the playground has been given a lifeline, most of us had grown up together with simple playground design by HDB interior designer Mr Khor Ean Ghee during the seventies.  Our future generation will be able to view these iconic during their growing up years that their father and mother once play with it or rather slide down it.  Mini one are also found in Ang Mo Kio Ave 3 and the image to the right is in the Macpherson area along with Jalan Pipit.  The other one found in the Old Kallang Airport is of a dove design and the fate of it is also unknown, hope to find out more of this playground around the island and will update later in another post.