RIFLE RANGE BOY

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Down memory lane KL......it does not seem so long ago (Thanks to SK for the contribution) The Bok House was an old mansion on Jalan Ampang built in 1926 and completed in 1929 for a local millionaire, Chua Cheng Bok. In the 1960s and up until its closure in 2001, the mansion housed an upscale restaurant called the Le Coq d'Or (The Golden Cockerel). Part of the original millionaires row, Bok House was probably one of the most visible yet least remembered relic of early KL. You will never guess or recognise this 1966 road... Car is turning down towards Jalan Pudu from Jalan Bukit Bintang (next to former Pavilion cinema ..NOT present day Pavilion mall). Tung Shing Hospital is down farther right after the row of shop houses. The popular pre 60s Kum Leng Chinese restaurant is on top left next to cluster of trees. Ongoing digging of roads were a common occurrence even back in the 60s. Farther up from the Pudu area is Peel Road ( Jalan Peel ) - photo circa 1950s. Th...

Reference:  http://www.carigold.com/portal/forums/showthread.php?t=178401 Kuala Lumpur 1880 Kuala Lumpur 1880   Kuala Lumpur World War 2 Kuala Lumpur  KL 1960

Thursday August 25, 2011 By YIP YOKE TENG teng@thestar.com.my Photos by LOW LAY PHON Naina Mohamed took out a black and white photograph kept carefully between the pages of his thick accounts book. The stall with a wooden rack fitted to the wall was neatly lined with toiletries, cigarette packs and books, much like how it is today. A young Indian boy manned the stall, sitting at the very location Naina sits every day. At first glance, the boy in the photograph looked like a young Naina but he was quick to point out that it was his father in the picture. If there is anyone who is most familiar with the day-to-day life in Jalan Sultan for the past decades, it is none other than Naina who mans his bookstand attached to the 83-year-old Hotel Lok Ann from Monday to Satur­day, and watched how the face of Jalan Sultan changed bit by bit.The bookstand has been there since 1955. Naina’s father took over the business from a friend and they had never left the spot since then. He narrated ...