WOO Choy Yin 胡彩燕
Chinatown,
Accession Number 002402
- Oral History Centre
Source
- 26
Total Reels
- Moey Kok Keong
Interviewer
- 13:06:36
Total Running Time
- Cantonese
Language
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Reel/Disc 1 of 26
Metadata
- 29 Jul 2000
Recording Date
- 00:30:51
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
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Synopsis
*Born in 1937 at number 46 Pagoda Street. Family background. How she was nearly given away. History of number 52. Educational background. Description of school life at Tong Onn Wui Kuan. Why she quit school. Father worked as hawker. How family escaped hawker inspectors. Bribing needed to obtain hawker license. Worked for a street hawker. Running from hawker inspectors. History of number 46. Description of house and tenants. Tenants quarreled over water supply.
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Reel/Disc 3 of 26
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- 29 Jul 2000
Recording Date
- 00:30:46
Running Time
- MP3
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- Open Access
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Synopsis
*How family stored clothes in metal cases. Description of things hung on walls. Sleeping in the cramped room. No electricity before 1950. An accident in using ozone lighting. Trap-door entrance to 3rd level. Quarrels between tenants. How to dry clothes. Compared neighbourliness with that in HDB flats. Father liked to rent to singles. Examples of the Shunde dialect. Did not like to associate with Shunde district in China. Leisure activities with neighbours. Cooking.
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Reel/Disc 4 of 26
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- 12 Aug 2000
Recording Date
- 00:31:01
Running Time
- MP3
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- Open Access
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Synopsis
*Single women, known as Gu Po from Shunde in China, worked as household servants. Why they chose to remain single. Wedding dinners held at home. Leisure activities of the Gu Po. The defunct Shun De Guang Mei Zhai Pu Tong Xiang Hui. Koh Yiu Wooi Kwoon at number 46 Pagoda Street. The Clan Association lent their telephone and Rediffusion to residents. Function of the Zuo Ban. Residents at the 2nd level of number 46.
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Reel/Disc 5 of 26
Metadata
- 12 Aug 2000
Recording Date
- 00:30:28
Running Time
- MP3
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- Open Access
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Synopsis
*Residents at the 2nd level of number 46. Water supply. Tailor shop took over the Clan Association. Activities in the tailor shop. Relation between the tailors and residents. Description of the tailor shop. Helped out in the paperworks shop at number 44. Seven Sisters' Basin and items in it. Celebration of Seven Sisters' Festival. Only singles participated in this Festival. Praying to the Seven Sisters and the Shepherd.
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Reel/Disc 6 of 26
Metadata
- 12 Aug 2000
Recording Date
- 00:30:44
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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Synopsis
*Competition for the best decorative tower in celebration of the Seven Sisters' Festival. Men looking for opportunities to know girls. Preparation for the Festival. Recalled lanterns made in the paperworks shop at number 44. Shops at Pagoda Street. Laundry shop at number 36. Wu Clan Association and Kok Shing Musical Society at number 32. Number 52 was burnt down. Liquor and wine shop.
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Reel/Disc 7 of 26
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- 21 Oct 2000
Recording Date
- 00:30:53
Running Time
- MP3
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- Open Access
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Synopsis
*Odd number shophouses along Pagoda Street. Number 37 was a lodging place for single men and an opium den. Opium smoking. Cooking raw opium. Playing Chap Ji Kee and its result slip.
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Reel/Disc 8 of 26
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- 21 Oct 2000
Recording Date
- 00:30:51
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- MP3
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- Open Access
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Synopsis
*The Chap Ji Kee result slip. Fan Tang is another form of illegal gambling. Childhood friends and games. Jobs that children took up. Education opportunities in Chinatown. Yeung Ching School was very famous. Hawkers at different streets in Chinatown.
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Reel/Disc 9 of 26
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- 11 Nov 2000
Recording Date
- 00:31:10
Running Time
- MP3
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- Open Access
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Synopsis
*Street hawkers on Pagoda Street. Her relative sold cigarettes and was a runaway bride from China. Hiding under trees to avoid bomb raids during the Japanese invasion. Her relative took her to Kulai, Johor to avoid the Japanese. Her father was a street hawker. How street hawkers fight for places for their stalls during the Chinese New Year period. Most stalls on Pagoda Street sold sundry goods and fruits. Food stalls.
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Reel/Disc 10 of 26
Metadata
- 11 Nov 2000
Recording Date
- 00:31:22
Running Time
- MP3
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- Open Access
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Synopsis
*Food stalls on Temple Street and Trengganu Street. A peanut paste hawker and how she made the paste. How to make sugar cane juice. Funeral parlors and House of Death at Sago Lane. How the liquid generated from his father's smoking pipe can be used to cure stomach aches.
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