Can someone identify this place in olden day singapore?

[sennheiser]

bugis.. its the stretch behind burger king.

[Shocking_vibes]

Is this place bugis street or johor road?


I always thought old bugis street had many cabarets and stuff like that


http://i41.tinypic.com/qx0yuw.jpg

[Gixer]

Pic looks like Johor Road. Long time ago.
I could be wrong.

[oOoLyRrAdoOo]

Yah,i think i saw an artical or something. Bugis used to be very happening place. Got chic hic somemore :rolleyes:

[demonhunter]

It is definately Desker Road ... or some would call it Keng jio kah

[AngusYoung]

It is definately Desker Road ... or some would call it Keng jio kah

Er.... Kin jio kah is Petain or Flanders Square. Although not very far off, its not the same as Desker road :confused:

[BscBMD997]

tat time we have Green Taxis? looks like M'sia to me.

[Malaysian Datuk]

bugis.. its the stretch behind burger king.

I also go with your answer....but should be called Victoria Street back then......the original Bugis Street is at where Bugis Junction now stands. Back then very happening and haunt of sailors.

[gofuckspider]

shd be petain rd..aka keng jio kah..cause if u stand same position at the entrance towards the houses now it kind of look the same as the pic..

[Shocking_vibes]

shd be petain rd..aka keng jio kah..cause if u stand same position at the entrance towards the houses now it kind of look the same as the pic..



the thing is there are no houses there but stair cases there. They do the business on the 2nd floor. also the middle area is where the taxi is driving thru, i don't think u could drive your car through even in the 70s, btw they showed desker in the 70s and it looked exactly like it does today cept fewer stalls outside.

[hotsoup16]

I think it was called Johore road but had been torn dwon many years liao

[nuclearkid]

Is it alfresco kengjio kar? :D

[tiewleilowmei]

bugis.. its the stretch behind burger king.


Is this place bugis street or johor road?
I always thought old bugis street had many cabarets and stuff like that
http://i41.tinypic.com/qx0yuw.jpg

Bro Sennheniser, you can read what Bro Shocking_vibes's mind before he start to post. Threadstarter Bro Shocking but first to post is Bro Sennheniser. Am I seeing things???

[samlee8]

Is this place bugis street or johor road?


I always thought old bugis street had many cabarets and stuff like that


http://i41.tinypic.com/qx0yuw.jpg

pardon me for saying this....
the taxi damn retro....

[Big Sexy]

desker is what we used to call jalan besar.. it is different from banana leg.

It is definately Desker Road ... or some would call it Keng jio kah

johor road duck stall have a small compound area where people usually gather.. it is totally different from the one in the picture.

I think it was called Johore road but had been torn dwon many years liao

unless my memory fail me...the pic look like a lane in geylang in the 80/90s. i cannot remember which lor.. but i know it is near gay world..;)

[tomvoyeur]

This is definitely a thread down memory lane. Too bad my memory does not stretch that far back. Is the threadstarter looking for someone in the pic? :p

[keano]

along e national library road..?

[FookKew]

bugis.. its the stretch behind burger king.

Is this place bugis street or johor road?
I always thought old bugis street had many cabarets and stuff like that
http://i41.tinypic.com/qx0yuw.jpg

Wow.... bro sennheiser really got 6 sense... the reply msg came before the TS post.... damn POWER!!!!!!:D

[Angelsonline]

Woah... the pix looks like it is from the late 60s or early 70s... Waaayyy before i was born. TS, where did you get that from?

[michaelrocksam]

Woah... the pix looks like it is from the late 60s or early 70s... Waaayyy before i was born. TS, where did you get that from?

must be from his grandfather or father when they were cheonging back in the roaring 60s with Halley's and the comets " rock around the clock". You see this is more like morning they are cheonging liao.

[daryl76]

wow... where to get this pic man???
i grew up around bugis area and it does looks abit like bugis st houses.. just tat in my memory, oredi is tar road liao.. not like this mud road leh

[breast-talk]

desker or old geylang

[mac75sg]

The pix from one of the movies think call "Shocking Asian"if i'm not wrong, right TS??:)

[darkclone]

The pix from one of the movies think call "Shocking Asian"if i'm not wrong, right TS??:)

haha i was about to say the same thing . the same story about one ladyboy with boyfriend and showed the ops that went about removing the dick right ? got show all the jap love hotel as well

[Cheonging101]

This! :eek:

This is the missing back alley between Geylang Lor 2 & Lor 4 before Guille"mud" Road became Guillemard road!

That taxi is the old TIBS Taxi! And those Malaysian auntie FLs! WTF! So much memories!

But then... let me choose, I'd still choose China MMs over those in the pics. :p

[mvkhem]

The place was called Johor road. It was very famous for transvestites and prostitutes. There used to be a back lane which was very very dark and full of transvestites. Many ah peks and men would gather round there around late at night,by 12 it was swarming full of ladyboys and pros, for a look see and a touching session... When I was around 19 that time, the bus interchange of service number 170 was there. We used to take the last bus to Mandai Camp from there. On the way to the interchange I would usually walk through Johor road deliberately to have a look around. Some times when i see a pretty thing I would usually go back when I was not on army duty or go there early before booking back to camp for a quicky.

[gonggong18]

Petian/ Johore Road ...one of those area...Bugis was not lidat

Opp BHG those area was for AK don't have char bor... if I remember correctly, I seen a picture of Bugis some time back it was b n w, was not like the pic

[nodoo]

Petain Road to me

[Shocking_vibes]

SOme idiots sent me neggies and said i was a clone of someone cos my post appeared 2nd. Ask sam and check whether i'm his clone or not.:mad:




Yes this pic is from the movie shocking asia. I got the film but it has 2 languages mixed into it i cannot understand anything being said.

They also featured desker road and it looks exactly the same as it is today except the hawkers outside are fewer in number as the police have caught a number of them.


Some of you say it is in bugis, 1 mentioned in geylang lorong 2 and 4. Another said johor rd, someone said petain rd.

The buildings look like petain rd type, but u cannot drive a car thru flanders square where the gals are. Besides they have to walk up the stairs to the 2nd floor to do what they came to do.

Many of the gals look a bit mannish which means they might be ah kuas. Johor rd seems to have closed quite a long time back probably before i was born?

[BKnight]

Just look at the spiral staircase, petain road still have those if you walk behind it....

[Matafleur]

Yes this pic is from the movie shocking asia. I got the film but it has 2 languages mixed into it i cannot understand anything being said.

Bro, you try changing your sound system or sound settings to play either left side or right side audio only. Should clear up the language mixing problem.

[Shocking_vibes]

Bro, you try changing your sound system or sound settings to play either left side or right side audio only. Should clear up the language mixing problem.



Tried already. No use. Both languages are heard from both sides.

[ol'coyote]

tat taxi was the old SABS taxi...
SABS = singapore airport bus service...
if me memory dun fail me...
me tinks that lane used to be this big tree at the junction...
somewhere near ophir road / queen street...
and the area damn dark at night...
the place is oso all ah guas...

[sennheiser]

kena zap twice. to clarify, i saw the thread and posted my reply. not sure why my post came out before TS's.

[Booby Trap]

This place looks very much like Tiong Bahru areas where those low-rise houses are. It could also be Chinatown areas such i.e. opposite Cantonment Police Station.

[bozocum]

Johore Road

[dickrick]

I'm pretty sure it's not Johore Road nor Petain Road/Flanders Square. Cars could never drive through the alley. Somehow it looks like a posed picture. Maybe from a movie like someone said. Three customers looking at the "girls" in the daytime is unsual. And if was a typical back alley the "girls" were seldom standing at the doorway. Negoitiations were usually held with the customer at the doorway and the ladies in the house.
Furthermore if it were Johore Road, very little action went down in the daytime, it was mainly at night.
Just my two cents.

[Master007]

Pardon me, but what's the idea? Just to identify the place ah? Me very shallow, please enlighten...

[Shocking_vibes]

I'm pretty sure it's not Johore Road nor Petain Road/Flanders Square. Cars could never drive through the alley. Somehow it looks like a posed picture. Maybe from a movie like someone said. Three customers looking at the "girls" in the daytime is unsual. And if was a typical back alley the "girls" were seldom standing at the doorway. Negoitiations were usually held with the customer at the doorway and the ladies in the house.
Furthermore if it were Johore Road, very little action went down in the daytime, it was mainly at night.
Just my two cents.



When did johor rd close down? Was it in the 70's? A search on street directory does not show johor road in Singapore at all.


The scene is from a mondo pseudo documentary called Shocking asia. Although it's not a real documentary since documentaries tend to be unbiased while this film attempts to shock viewers, the scenes in it are real. The camera man even went down to desker road and filmed the whores sitting there in the 70's. They all ran inside when the camera was aimed at them, hence it was not acting, at the most those ppl pose for the cameras.

Many scenes involving singapore and malaysia. From tang kee to bapok gender operation, to thaipusam. Although i don't remember seeing geylang assuming geylang in the 70's looks like what it is today.

[dickrick]

When did johor rd close down? Was it in the 70's? A search on street directory does not show johor road in Singapore at all.

I can comment on the Johore Road bit, if memory serves right it was the early 80's. By mid, late '80s the trans moved to Rowell/Desker Road and some to Petain Road. The area Johore Road was is now a dried foodstuff market opposite the Johore bus / taxi terminus.

[ol'coyote]

I can comment on the Johore Road bit, if memory serves right it was the early 80's. By mid, late '80s the trans moved to Rowell/Desker Road and some to Petain Road. The area Johore Road was is now a dried foodstuff market opposite the Johore bus / taxi terminus.

u mus be at least in your late 30s to knoe these stuffs...
yes u are rite about the location of former johore road...

[Shocking_vibes]

Here's the link to download part of the film.

Didn't know uploading took so long :mad:


RapidShare: Easy Filehosting (http://rapidshare.com/files/218768991/shocking_asia_1-3.avi)

[Shocking_vibes]

so to those of who d/led the film did can u identify the place? I don't think the narrator stated the name of the place.