Gay World : exterior [2]



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04 Apr 1992

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This is a 1992 photograph depicting Gay World, a popular amusement park in Geylang Lorong 2, also originally known as Happy World when it started in 1936. It was renamed Gay World in 1966. It was the last pre-World War II amusement park to shut down in 2000. Title devised by Library staff.


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Amusement parks--Singapore--Photographs

Commercial buildings--Singapore--Photographs

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Commercial buildings

Sports and Recreation

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All rights reserved. Lee Kip Lin and National Library Board, Singapore 2009.

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