This may be a street scene in Singapore circa 1964. It’s from the collection of slides my father made on our trip to Sabah in North Borneo. In 1964 I was six and a jungle explorer and world traveler.
My friend Nathan, on seeing a copy of this on FB said:
“Looks like Cantonese romanization of the Chinese characters. Malaysia? Could be Singapore.”
So…I’m pretty sure I got that one right. At first I thought perhaps Kota Kinabalu, Jesselton at the time, but the business records pretty much confirmed it for me.
All in all I have a couple of hundred slides and it’s going to take quite some time to go through them. Today I sorted them into piles by slide type, Ektachrome, Kodachrome, and by sort of font used on the slide printing. My next sort will be to sort each of those categories by anything written on them, in some cases my dad numbered them, in others he alpha characters. Then I’ll get down to scanning them. I decided the willy-nilly method wasn’t going to cut it for me. Damn my computer programming skills…must sort, classify, and refactor.
Sigh.
Slower, cheaper, less useful…