Circa 1960s. Car is turning down towards Jalan
Pudu from Jalan Bukit Bintang (next to former Pavilion cinema. Tung Shin
Hospital is farther down, right after the row of shop houses. The popular pre
60s Kum Leng Restaurant is on top left next to cluster of trees.
Peel Road (Jalan
Peel ) - photo circa 1950s. This was the main trunk road leading out of KL to
the Southern part of the country pre 70s before the Loke Yew Highway and
Seremban Highway were constructed.
May 13th
aftermath of the rampage at Campbell Road (Jalan Dang Wangi ) before the left
turning into Kampung Baru (Jalan Raja Abdullah)
Newly completed Federal Highway with the EPF
building still work in the progress at the junction with Jalan Gasing 1962.
The
colonial "prestigious" shopping places were Whileaway Laidlam, John
Little's and Robinson's Dept Store located at Mountbatten Road (Jalan Tun Perak)
which managed to stay in business till the 1970s ( photo ) with the top 2
floors being converted into a Chinese restaurant and night club.
Tan Chong Motors, the sole agent/distributor of Datsun (Nissan) vehicles
circa 1950s.
Sultan
Street Railway Station signage is clearly displayed on the roof of the station.
Directly in front of the station is Foch Avenue. Present day Puduraya.
Front
facade of Sultan Street Railway Station circa 1950s. On the right next to the
station was the infamous lane with the steps leading up to Wesley Methodist
Church and MBS.
The Jalan
Sultan railway station was archived at more than a century old as evidenced on
the timeline date of this photo. There was no Jalan Pudu yet and China town
area was probably serviced by bullock tracks .
1960s High
Street - Jalan Tun HS Lee. On left is the main office of Eu Yan San, the long
established Chinese Medical Hall still at the same site today. Farther down the
road is the Bangkok Bank.
1920s era,
Yoke Woo Hin Restaurant is ( almost ) as old as Sultan Street. Serves old
Cantonese tradition cuisine including the annual festive dumplings, moon cakes,
dim sum and char siew low wanton mee. Recently ceased business.
Road on left was the very popular Cross Street,
present day Jalan Silang, with the Tai Tai (chinese rich ladies) of the 50s -
70s era consisting of mainly gold smith shops. Some of the shops are still in
business today, but facing competition from shopping malls and complex based
gold smith shops.
Bukit
Bintang Park aka BB Park. This site used to be Hollywood Park way back in the
1930s. Back then, this part of town was considered the outskirts of Kuala
Lumpur. It was for precisely this reason that Pudu Prison (popularly called
Pudu Jail) was built in 1895. Hollywood Park was later acquired by movie giants
of the day, Shaw Brothers. It was upgraded to BB Park with a carnival-like
setting: there were cabarets and dance halls, cinemas, stage shows,
restaurants, game stalls and even a boxing ring. BB Park’s fortunes started to
decline with the rising popularity of television and radio. It was closed in
the early 1970s and redeveloped into Sungei Wang Plaza.
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