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Get for me: Monday with the Editor CURRENCY CONVERTER

On this Monday, I invite you to join me as we scroll down memory lane together. Some names may tinkle your memory; some may not. That's because different things have meaning to different generations. Find your own generation here.

The six million dollar man

ABBA

The man from U.N.C.L.E.

Gigantor

Astroboy

The Brady Bunch

The courtship of Eddie's father

Green Hornet

The Monkees

Marine Boy

Atom Ant - Up, up & away!

Ultraman

Rin Tin Tin

Bruce Lee - Enter the Dragon

Bonanza

Gunsmoke

The Rockford Files

Sharp Night

Different Strokes

Ben-Hur

Love Potion Number 9

Firecrackers

Roger Koo

The Citizen Watch Show

chatek

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

The Carol Burnett Show

Saturday Night Fever

The Donny & Marie Osmond Show

Times of your life - Paul Anka

Villi Vanilli

Combat - starring Vic Morrow

Princess Diana's wedding

The assassination of JFK

Martin Luthur King

Marilyn Monroe

The Towering Inferno

Wonder Woman

Bionic Woman

The Waltons

New World Amusement Park

Great World Amusement Park

Little House on the Prairie

Dr WHO

The Avengers

The Saint - Starring Roger Moore

Starwars - The Empire Strikes Back

Startrek

Sesame Street

Get Smart

Liu San Zie

The Mob Squad

Frances Yip

Fantasy Island

The Love Boat

Gilligan's Island

Chameleon

Man on the Net

Roman Tam

Liu Wen Chen

The Great Gatsby

Pretty Woman

Police Academy

Predator

Nightmare on Elm's Street

The Exorcist

Hawaii Five O

Thunderbirds

I shot the Sheriff - Eric Clapton

Kungfu Fighting

Bat Masterson

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Dean Martin Show

The Jerry Lewis Show

The Muppets

The Jackson Five

Elvis Presley

Airfix aeromodelling toys

The New Nation - Singapore afternoon tabloid

Matchbox toy cars

Jurong Drive-in Cinema - in Jurong

Jubilee Cinema - in North Bridge Road

The Medical Hall - in Battery Road

The National Theatre - in River Valley Road

The Van Kleef Aquarium - in River Valley Road

Odeon Cinema - in North Bridge Road

Swee Kee chicken rice - in Middle Road/North Bridge Road

Lassie

The Fugitive

Candid Camera

bell bottoms

hippism

Dirty Dancing

The Invaders

Mission Impossible

SAFTI army camp - in Jurong

Flipper

Voyage to the bottom of the sea

Indiana Jones - The Temple of Doom

curry puff hairstyle

Patton

The Longest Day

Rocky

It's about Time

Journey to the centre of the earth

Brylcreem

singlets

A man called Horse

Tora, Tora, Tora

Tootsie

chicken rice balls

The Satay Club - next to the Esplanade

The collapse of Hotel New World - in Serangoon Road

The fall guy

M*A*S*H*

What's my line?

A-Team

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

The Partridge Family

The flying nun

Starsky & Hutch

The Twilight Zone

Mr Magoo

Courageous Cat

The incredible hulk

General Hospital

The Andy Griffith Show

Born free

pasar malams of the seventies

the demise of Holloway Lane (adjacent to St Joseph's Church in Victoria Street)

I Write the Songs - Barry Manilow

I love Lucy

Petticoat Junction

Green Acres

My Three Sons

The Beverly Hillbillies

Apollo 11

Neil Armstrong - first man on the moon

My favourite Martian

I dream of Jeanie

The Bob Newhart Show

It's an AMCO kind of world

Texwood jeans

The good, the bad and the ugly

Cuppage market and hawker centre

the old market in Orchard Road

sampans on Singapore River

Kandang Kerbau market

the old Adelphi Hotel

the old Raffles Institution - in Beach Road

Thank you for taking this long trip with me. I hope it has not been boring. No one knows what the next millennium will hold for us, but we still have our memories come what may.

Treasure them, don't bury them. Do your part in ensuring the future generations get to know the things we hold dear to us - conserve our old buildings, if not, take as many pictures as you can of the buildings around us, for our children and their children may not get to see some of them in their time. Keep pictures of your TV/movie shows and show them to your children. Write stories and sprinkle some of these things in your stories.

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Did You Know?

The Merlion Park at the mouth of the Singapore River was completed in 1972 by the architect Urban Redevelopment Authority. The Merlion statue was also crafted in the same year by Lim Nang Seng & Sons.

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News Flash Today, Monday 13 Dec 1999

In Singapore

SingNet offers all fixed line customers free internet access & e-mail accounts and they do not even have to apply. Offer which starts from Jan 2000 is better than StarHubs'. Existing plans, paying between S$9.50 & S$84.95 will continue to be toll-free in 2000

Lightning strikes angler & friends at Seletar Reservoir.

100 nabbed in crackdown on illegal gang, drug and vice activities in11 nightspots.

Asia

Hong Kong actress Rachel Lee and Taiwan actor Ko Chun-hsiung have won the best actress and best actor awards at the 36th Golden Horse Awards held last night.

Jakarta: Gus Dur warns - heal rift in Ambon or Jakarta will step in.

Senior Minister Lee says of Aceh: "Nobody wants and nobody sees any benefit in the breaking up of Indonesia.

Manila: Two die, 22 hurt in Philippine quake.

Around the world

Washington:The US govt issued a global caution to its citizens travelling abroad through the start of the new year and Ramadan, citing 'credible information that terrorists are planning attacks' against them.

Washington: Lawyers in US now give advice online eg. USLaw.com and FreeAdvice.com.

Courtesy of The Straits Times

News updated before 8.00 am daily.

Christmas is just around the corner. Have you started shopping yet? For the benefit of those living overseas, we will post here over the next few weeks pictures of shopping centre facades decorated for X'mas.

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