Who Moved the Clock?

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There's one Fiat chug-a-lug, two Morris Minors, a Volvo 122s (I think) and trishaws several. This is how the clock tower roundabout looked on a busy day - and it's five past eleven on the Kampung Daik side, but the time has fallen on the face that looks to the coffee shop that sold breakfast of toasts and satay. And there's a lone motorcyclist riding perhaps a Honda or Yamaha.

The clock tower has been moved to this new location to make way for the brave new Pasar kedai Payang that you can see behind the tree.

This photo was taken after the one we've seen below [Time for a Tower]. This was probably Kedai Payang in the sixties, with that tree that is sheltering all those cars that belonged probably to civil servants and teachers. And what's most amazing for me is this is my first glimpse, after a long time, of that row of old Kedai Payang shop houses - demolished long before the one across the road - that had the Duyung Ikhwan general trader, a batik and a kitab shop and a few more that I cannot now recall.

But who or what was STOPA?

I think the hanging frames on the end of the building showed that there was once there a hoarding, or they were probably preparing to put one up there now, to hide the STOPA forever behind some exhortations for us to drink more Tonic Cap Gajah, or to buy Dunlopillo for a good night's rest, or even to Go Superwell, Go Supershell.

I don't remember what the Chinese shop at the end of the row sold, can anyone read the Chinese characters on the signboard?

Photo Credit: Cik Qaleh, for whom a big thank you.