Singapore in the 1950s to 1990s
Articles about ‘90s kids’ are far too many online. Today, we’re going to throw all the way back to a time when our grandparents were young -- the 50s. Shirtless children running around kampungs defined the spirit of the 50s. It was a decade when people had no care about the paper chase or the 5Cs. The children played bare-foot in the fields while adults crouched at the steps of their attap houses and work was just for feeding the mouths under the same zinc roof.
The 50s also saw the rise of cultural icons that eventually shaped Singapore. Show your grandparents this list and you might be wowed by their memories from pre-independence Singapore.
Long gone are the circuses and fear of kicking over spittoons but these are nostalgic elements of our grandparents' past that you can talk about to see their eyes sparkle. Talking about the 50s would awaken the same nostalgia in our grandparents as it does for us when someone talks about waking up at 9am to catch our favourite cartoon programmes:
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Articles about ‘90s kids’ are far too many online. Today, we’re going to throw all the way back to a time when our grandparents were young -- the 50s. Shirtless children running around kampungs defined the spirit of the 50s. It was a decade when people had no care about the paper chase or the 5Cs. The children played bare-foot in the fields while adults crouched at the steps of their attap houses and work was just for feeding the mouths under the same zinc roof.
The 50s also saw the rise of cultural icons that eventually shaped Singapore. Show your grandparents this list and you might be wowed by their memories from pre-independence Singapore.
Long gone are the circuses and fear of kicking over spittoons but these are nostalgic elements of our grandparents' past that you can talk about to see their eyes sparkle. Talking about the 50s would awaken the same nostalgia in our grandparents as it does for us when someone talks about waking up at 9am to catch our favourite cartoon programmes:
- We had privately-owned zoos with 50 cent entrance fees
- Magnolia's iconic pyramid-shaped milk packets
- A swimming pool that becomes women-only on Tuesdays
- A scheme for children to save money
- There was a legit reason to squat on chairs in coffee shops
- The Magnolia Ice-Cream man
- Mass weddings were really common
- The “OG” of TCM - the “Koh Yok” man
- $1 circus shows with wild animals
- "Burning the midnight oil" was literal
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