NG Joo Kee
Special Project,
Accession Number 001970
- Oral History Centre
Source
- 4
Total Reels
- Yap Wee Cheng
Interviewer
- 01:41:06
Total Running Time
- English
Language
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Reel/Disc 1 of 4
Metadata
- 3 Nov 1997
Recording Date
- 00:30:14
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
Conditions Governing Access
Synopsis
Personal background. Description of Raffles Place in '60s. Could only enter Robinson through the underground carpark. Memories of Market Street and Change Alley. Lived in four-storeyed shop-house at Chulia Street. A shophouse fire in 1971. Oriental Emporium and why it was popular. Indian neighbours who had a special way of shutting doors. Description of the shop-house.
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Reel/Disc 2 of 4
Metadata
- 3 Nov 1997
Recording Date
- 00:30:07
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
Conditions Governing Access
Synopsis
Swill collector. Relationship with neighbours. More Indians resided in Chulia Street. Learned to eat curry from them. Other ethnic festival celebrations. Robinson fire in 1972. Last family to leave Chulia Street. Changes in Raffles Place after the Robinson fire. Memories of roof-top garden and underground carpark.
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Reel/Disc 3 of 4
Metadata
- 3 Nov 1997
Recording Date
- 00:29:33
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
Conditions Governing Access
Synopsis
Like to walk in underground carpark. Flag-selling at Robinson. How he felt in Robinson. Christmas decoration of Robinson. Oriential Emporium sales. Chulia Street became one-way street in later years. Plastic rubbish bin that fascinated him. Hawker stalls at Raffles Place, outside Thong Chai Medical Hall and Esplanade Park. Market at Chulia Street.
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Reel/Disc 4 of 4
Metadata
- 3 Nov 1997
Recording Date
- 00:11:12
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
Conditions Governing Access
Synopsis
Elaboration on market at Chulia Street. Transportation at Raffles Place. Schools that children of Raffles Place went to. Thaipusam at Market Street. Love Indian kachang puteh.
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