PRE-MALL DAYS
Orchard Road — then and now Singapore's main shopping road— took a while to evolve into its present state of high-rise, spanking shopping malls standing cheek by jowl.
Thirty years ago, someone standing in the middle of the road could still see a lot of sky (above).
The only thing that is still represented in the streetscape now is the Lido Theatre near the junction of Scotts and Orchard roads. And even then, that was reincarnated as Lido Cineplex in l993.
Where the Orchard Road MRT station now is used to stand the Orchard Road Police Station, which made way for progress in 1982.
Ngee Ann City, in the foreground of the present photo (left), came up in 1993, and Wisma Atria was built in 1986.
Both photos were taken from Mandarin Hotel, now known as the Meritus Mandarin
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