Past life on the street
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Jun 23, 2010 - Straits Times
Past life on the street
STEP into the streets of Singapore past with a little-seen collection of photographs and artefacts that goes on display at the National Museum next week.
The display, titled Surviving The Streets, runs from next Monday to Aug 22. It shows a variety of street artisans at work and play in the city from the early to mid-20th century.
These entrepreneurs played a pivooffered hair-braiding services or a cut and shave. Some worked from stalls, others carried their wares in baskets but all transformed public space through economic and social activity.
According to Ms Lee Chor Lin, director of the National Museum of Singapore, 'the exhibition is as much about the streets as it is about the people who worked on them'.
About 130 images and objects from the National Museum of Singapore and the National Archives are being put on display, according to Ms Vidya Murthy, who curated the exhibition.
Many have never been seen before. Surviving The Streets is about 'the small people who sit on the side of the road and do little things like beat utensils into shape', and not about famous pioneers, she says.
The display, titled Surviving The Streets, runs from next Monday to Aug 22. It shows a variety of street artisans at work and play in the city from the early to mid-20th century. -- PHOTO: NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SINGAPORE
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Hmmm...
Nostalgic
that's how our forefathers lived
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the drink stall at Tanjong Pagar.
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Uncle,
Coke 1 bottle how much?
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Originally posted by Mr Milo:
Uncle,
Coke 1 bottle how much?
no, one cup with or without ice shaving?
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Uncle,
Give me 1 cup with ice shaving..........
TQ
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10 cents
want to add syrup?
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Yes!
Give me syrup!
TQ!
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add syrup that's 10 cents, please.
10q
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/me gives 20 cents to Uncle
TQ!
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return 10c
10q
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Uncle,
What else u sell?
I want Mai Ya Tang
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Originally posted by Mr Milo:
Uncle,
What else u sell?
I want Mai Ya Tang
you want maltose go to the corner uncle.
I only sell barley syrup and bottle drinks.
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Oh, ok
/me hurries to Corner Uncle
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haha.. milo n clivebenss so cute ...
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/me bites into maltose and gets his teeth stuck
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call mummy.
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the most nostalgic are street facials....using sharp threads to iron out wrinkles n blackheads....where they squat or sat on short stools to have their faces done...
PRC gals r reviving it now though...
all these exhibitions tell us life was so much simpler and that their backwardness was nothing compared to so much warmth n social trust they place in one another's hands...than the cold hands of our upclass modern day "elites"
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simple life.
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i din call Mummy cos my tooth came out with the maltose together
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put some cotton wool.
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Kekekeke
free tooth removal, dentist earn nothing
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most kids very afraid of dentist.
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Yup,
Me scared of dentist too