Watch tower -newly constructed.
A busy street especially during festive seasons
The police act fast on double parked cars!-A ticket- like a piece of expensive bak Kua will be served to you!
This building housed the former old theatre at Jalan Abdullah-Can't remember the name of the old theatre! I had seen the show "THE STING" in this cinema before and many many other shows. Sometimes two old show screened together in one sitting can go for RM 0.40 & RM 0.65 ONLY in 1975. You could offer the watchman RM 0.20 for a show too!! The procedures was when you enter the cinema;just sit around the seats where he can notice you and when the lights are off,he will approach you to collect the twenty cents from you. Kua Chi was five cents for two packets.You can smoke and drink in the cinema and you can see many ekor tikus running around your surrounding chairs but they will never touch you cos they know their limits too.They just waana to have fun with your chicken wing's bone and some pop corn-if you dropped it!. When you feel excited during the show, you can always lift up the wooden bottom seats -half way,only(of couse the hinges were on) and started flipping and banging with a loud noise Or when suddenly in the middle of the show the screen went dark or lights were kaput...AND even with a kissing scene on show...you can shout ,band the chairs ( suprisingly the wooden chairs were tough),whistle and scold your BEST four + 4 letters words and whatever "F"'words to no one's business!!THINKING back- ALL those idiots and damn-damn men and women were only shouting to the screen!!Enjoy huh? What a wonderful outing for these jakun and sakai gang>me huh!? Maklumlah tamadun orang kampung ma!Anyway,that's how they release their tension,Mind you there was no Kara-ok yet.
Jalan Abdullah MUAR
To be continue on Lain Jalan.....
PICTURES TAKEN FROM THE JUNCTION OF JALAN ABDULLAH/SULAIMAN( IN FRONT OF TELEKOM BUILDING ) -FROM BELOW
RIGHT TURN -FACING THE PAGOH UMNO,ON THE LEFT IS GERAI WHICH IS NEXT TO THE MUAR TRAFFIC POLICE AND ON THE RIGHT IS HSBC.
FIRST "SECRET RECIPE" SHOP IN MUAR, UNCLE PEH HAD HIS FIRST NAUGHTY NIGHT IN A PREVIOUS HOTEL INSIDE THIS BUILDING.NOW THE BUILDING HAS TOTALLY REFURBISHED AND HAS A NEW HOTEL IN IT.
JALAN MAHARANI-NEW TAXI STN IS ON THE LEFT AND THE LAWYER FIRMS ARE ON THE RIGHT.
AT THE JLN MAHARANI / SULAIMAN JUNCTION
MAJLIS PERBANDARAN MUAR SELATAN ON THE LEFT & OCBC ON THE RIGHT ( JUNCTION OF JLN MAHARANI / SISI )
THE CLOCK TOWER-A DEAD CLOCK FOR YEARS
ON THE LEFT IS CUSTOM OFFICE
A NEW BUILDING HOUSING A GOVERNMENT ADMISTRATION OFFICE
THE NEW SHOPS / GERAI BUILT BY MPMS-OPPOSITE MY OLD SHOP.THIS PLACE WAS FOMERLY AN EMPTY LAND WITH BIG ANGSANA TREE PLANTED ALONG THE ROAD .THIS WAS WHERE I LEARNT HOW TO RIDE A BICYCLE IN 1973
THE ROW OF SHOPS AND MY FORMER SHOP WHICH I HAD STAYED FOR 8 YEARS PLUS....59,JLN MAHARANI ...
THE SHOP NO 59-MY GRANDPA PAID FOR THIS IRON COLLAPSIBLE DOOR
mY MEMOIR.....INSIDE.....
OPPOSITE THE SHOPS...
A NEW "LAMAN(PARK) MAHARANI" HAS JUST BEEN BUILT RECENTLY. THE OLD JETTY HAD BEEN TAKEN DOWN.KIM KEK AND HIS LATE FATHER HAD BEEN PRACTISING ON THIS JETTY LONG TIME AGO.....I HAD MY PRAWN CATCHING AND FISHING HERE TOO LONG TIME AGO.....I WONDER PEH SWAM HERE BEFORE?!
AT THE MUAR BRIDGE JUNCTION ...THE ROUND ABOUT IS NOT THERE ANY MORE....LONG TIME AGO...AND IT IS A TRAFFIC LIGHT JUNCTION.
A PEEP TOWARD THE MUAR BRIDGE.....
RIGHT TURN -FACING THE PAGOH UMNO,ON THE LEFT IS GERAI WHICH IS NEXT TO THE MUAR TRAFFIC POLICE AND ON THE RIGHT IS HSBC.
FIRST "SECRET RECIPE" SHOP IN MUAR, UNCLE PEH HAD HIS FIRST NAUGHTY NIGHT IN A PREVIOUS HOTEL INSIDE THIS BUILDING.NOW THE BUILDING HAS TOTALLY REFURBISHED AND HAS A NEW HOTEL IN IT.
JALAN MAHARANI-NEW TAXI STN IS ON THE LEFT AND THE LAWYER FIRMS ARE ON THE RIGHT.
AT THE JLN MAHARANI / SULAIMAN JUNCTION
MAJLIS PERBANDARAN MUAR SELATAN ON THE LEFT & OCBC ON THE RIGHT ( JUNCTION OF JLN MAHARANI / SISI )
THE CLOCK TOWER-A DEAD CLOCK FOR YEARS
ON THE LEFT IS CUSTOM OFFICE
A NEW BUILDING HOUSING A GOVERNMENT ADMISTRATION OFFICE
THE NEW SHOPS / GERAI BUILT BY MPMS-OPPOSITE MY OLD SHOP.THIS PLACE WAS FOMERLY AN EMPTY LAND WITH BIG ANGSANA TREE PLANTED ALONG THE ROAD .THIS WAS WHERE I LEARNT HOW TO RIDE A BICYCLE IN 1973
THE ROW OF SHOPS AND MY FORMER SHOP WHICH I HAD STAYED FOR 8 YEARS PLUS....59,JLN MAHARANI ...
THE SHOP NO 59-MY GRANDPA PAID FOR THIS IRON COLLAPSIBLE DOOR
mY MEMOIR.....INSIDE.....
OPPOSITE THE SHOPS...
A NEW "LAMAN(PARK) MAHARANI" HAS JUST BEEN BUILT RECENTLY. THE OLD JETTY HAD BEEN TAKEN DOWN.KIM KEK AND HIS LATE FATHER HAD BEEN PRACTISING ON THIS JETTY LONG TIME AGO.....I HAD MY PRAWN CATCHING AND FISHING HERE TOO LONG TIME AGO.....I WONDER PEH SWAM HERE BEFORE?!
AT THE MUAR BRIDGE JUNCTION ...THE ROUND ABOUT IS NOT THERE ANY MORE....LONG TIME AGO...AND IT IS A TRAFFIC LIGHT JUNCTION.
A PEEP TOWARD THE MUAR BRIDGE.....
4 comments:
Don Yoo, good snapshot!!!! a lot of changes along Muar streets, except your childhood home.Surprise the building is old but its structure remain solid and sound, the front is about the same like 25 years ago,but the shop lot opposite is totally different, the pasar n bridge all got a new face lift,does not look like Muar at all. Did you modify your camera setting or redraw your photo image ?
Mr. Chow.. I just went to your Blog.spot... anything interesting from your area of work or residence... looks like you are staying in a temperate climate area... Me, an old Eyetalian have to come to stay in a hotter place like Malaysian... them bended fingers ain't goona take no more pain, ain't it? Be like Don Yoo.. just like a grandmother, writing all those grandmother stories... but I like them... boo hoo... I miss my grandmother...!!!
Mr Corleone, hope you are having fun in an equatorial climate, i bet you love the smell of your sweaty shirt whenever you come back from outside in Malaysia.
Write all the grandmother stories take a lot of time and intuition,i am not very good at it, but i will try to do my best in my blog, please
bear with me,my friend.
Mr Donyoo, Jln Abdullah is where Danny Chong optical shop used to locate , is that right?
ctchow,
i didn't modify my camera neither did i redraw the photo images.I am using a Canon A70 digital camera.
Yeah, Danny Chong optical shop is still there.
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