Club Street got its name because of many Chinese Club and Clans Association are there and also around Ang Siang Hill. One of the most famous ones is the Millionaires Club or the Chinese Weekly Entertainment Club at 76, Club Street featuring the most prominent businessmen in the history of Singapore from colonial times through the Japanese Occupation and to today modern Singapore. They are mostly from the Hokkien community and also wealthy Strait Borns Chinese Businessman. Next door at 72 Club Street is the Goh Loo Club in their early day's many members took part in the revolution to overthrow the Qing dynasty by generously donating monies to Sun Yat-Sen Chinese Revolutionary League. After the Japanese Occupation, it is home to the Basketball Association of Singapore from 1946 t0 1970.
