Capitol Theatre – Then and Now

James reminisces of the heyday of Capitol Theatre in his latest post. “Once it was Singapore’s grande dame of cinemas, a destination for three generations of movie-lovers eager to see the latest Hollywood flicks.” Read James Seah’s post on Capitol Theatre. Tweet(function() { var po = document.createElement(‘script’); po.type = ‘text/javascript’; po.async = true; po.src = [...]

In the mood for Cheongsam… Good Morning Yesterday Edition

Have you caught the Cheongsam exhibition at the National Museum of Singapore yet? In keeping with the theme, Chun See of Good Morning Yesterday posts some pictures of his mother in the cheongsam, taken in the 1940s: See all the pictures in his post here. If you haven’t caught it already, In the Mood for [...]

Railway memories

7 Jun 2011

Dear great-great-great-grandchildren,

Today, I have this urge to write to all of you about my excursions to the Bukit Timah Railway Station and various parts along the KTM railway tracks on 4 Jun 2011. I do not know if you would ever experience these places like I did?

Remembering our provision shops at Tiong Bahru

icemoon catches the NHB roving exhibition on provision shops, currently at Tiong Bahru Community Centre. This was NHB’s community series exhibition on provision shops entitled Traditional Provision Shops: A Thriving Past & An Uncertain Future. Under an energetic director of heritage institutions and industrial development, NHB embarked on a series of travelling community-related heritage exhibitions [...]

Last look at Rediffusion

After 63 years of broadcasting, Singapore subscription-based radio station Redifussion will go off the air at the end of this month. Redifussion was most notable for its broadcast content in the Chinese dialects. While a digital broadcaster, Redifussion still uses a lot of ‘old school’ technologies like gramophones and vinyl records because of the age [...]