Posted on 30 January 2013

But if you do remember these scenes, you’re really too old.

News of Singapore’s population breaching the 7 million mark by 2030 with half of the people on this island made up of foreigners is leaving a bad taste in a lot of people’s mouths.

And the most widespread fear?

The loss of Singaporean-ness.

So, what better way to bid adieu to everything we have lost, and will lose, than to take a trip down memory lane and re-live all those places and things that are no more.

However, if a lot of these scenes from the late 1980s to early 1990s ring a bell, you’re getting too old.

#1 Orchard Road back then



#2 Is this Paragon?



#3 I really don’t remember Orchard Plaza



#4 Tangs and Lucky Plaza



#5 Dhoby Ghaut



#6 Specialist Shopping Centre at Somerset, a.k.a 313. And remember those traffic lights?



#7 ERP used to be called Restricted Zone



#8 Restricted Zone at Clark Quay area



#9 Opposite Tangs



#10 Centre Point!



#11 That building on the left is Specialist Shopping Centre



#12 Double decker non-air con bus



#13 Change Alley at Collyer Quay



#14 I have no idea where this is



#15 Chinatown



#16 Chinatown



#17 Harbour Front, without Vivocity



#18 90s McDonald’s advertising! (That’s Abigail’s mom)





#19 Wee Kim Wee



#20 In front of Padang



#21 Lee Hsien Loong



#22 A time when Singapore still had four races



#23 Ong Teng Cheong



#24 A time when PAP was still winning elections!



#25 Look how MRT stations have modernised!





#26 Merlion



#27 This one’s probably demolished



#28 This too



#29 Neil Road?



#30 I think this tortoise is still alive at the Singapore Zoo!



#31 Cecil Street area?



#32 Raffles Place MRT



#33 Fullerton



Noticed how little people there were last time?

All stills stolen from here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.