Besides the five-foot way barber, another streetside vendor that you will be able to catch this weekend at the Singapore Art Museum and the Stamford Arts Centre is the cobbler:
Jerome writes:
Sidewalk cobblers, a rare breed now in Singapore, can still be found if one looks hard enough. Once a common sight along sidewalks, five-foot-ways and back lanes, the age of disposables and trends has seen a falling demand for the trade. My mother frequently visited the sidewalk cobbler to have her shoes mended or resoled. I remember many of them around the sidewalks and footpaths around Raffles Place back in the 1970s and they did a roaring trade with a steady stream of customers – particularly ladies whose shoes needed a broken heel fixed – seated patiently on a stool, and feet in flip-flops the cobbler provided, as the cobbler did a quick fix.
You can read Jerome’s post here. These streetside vendors – the cobbler, barber and other trades – are part of The Heritage Along Footpaths project by the National Heritage Board that were once common trades plied along our streets. Catch them this weekend at the Singapore Art Museum and the Stamford Arts Centre.
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