With a stack of old photos in his possession, Robert Jedrek — the dad of Singapore’s only female race car driver Claire Jedrek — decided to scan them before the prints degrade for good.

Luckily for us all, he uploaded the scans onto Facebook, providing folks with a nostalgia-fuelled glimpse of Singapore in the 1970s.

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Some places are instantly recognizable, though a lot has changed since then. There are the familiar red-bricked chalets that used to occupy a stretch of East Coast Park:

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There’s the North Bridge Road stretch close to Masjid Sultan:

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There’s the Merlion statue near Clifford Pier, situated at the mouth of the Singapore River as a tourism symbol. Now, of course, surrounded by skyscrapers.

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There’s Lucky Plaza, which was one of the more successful malls in Singapore during its heydays in Orchard Road. It’s still a bustling shopping center today, but patronized more by the local Filipino community.

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