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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
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Revitalize the Bazaar Bulat.
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tapi yg bulat x semestinya berbentuk bulat pada plan.. mungkin
sebahagian darinya membentuk struktur luaran geodesic..
mungkin ia berbentuk pusaran 'angin puting beliung' spt FLW's Guggenheim Museum
how nostalgic baazar bulat..
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at that time when i was in standard 1, i become so excited when my father took me to baazar bulat. it was because i know that i would get a new school uniforms,a new school shoe,a new school bag and a few sets of stationery.
sighh...such a lovely day~
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April 2nd, 2010 at 2:37 am
yes i use to frequent the shops for sports items , the round market was very famous for these kind of shops those days..
April 2nd, 2010 at 3:38 am
Hi Antiquelad. I wonder where these traders are now?
April 2nd, 2010 at 6:56 am
I used to buy the LP record in one of the Music shop on the 1st floor. Trying to recall the shop’s name.
April 3rd, 2010 at 1:27 pm
my primary school days, I am there always for scouts uniform and school bags. I miss the place. I still don’t get the rationality of demolishing the building cause of not strong anymore.
April 3rd, 2010 at 1:39 pm
Othman,
In the picture there is a sign for Music City. Was that where you bought your LPs?
April 5th, 2010 at 4:34 am
Yes, that’s the shop. That was where I bought Bee Gees record album and other record album which were under Life Record.
April 5th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
Bought a few records there - the Quests, Teddy Robins and Playboys (HK group) and of course Ipohs Fabulous Falcons “Midnight Express” single.
I used to dream of getting those fake airlines (BOAC) bags.
April 5th, 2010 at 4:23 pm
Allan,
Do you still have the Fabulous Falcons EP? I would love to put a recording of it on our site. I am sure Joe Chin and the others would be delighted.
You can find the story of the Falcons on our database archive at athttp://www.ipohworld.org/search8/result.asp?strid=2885
April 6th, 2010 at 3:12 pm
Yes, this was where we got our uniforms and bags back in those days.
April 7th, 2010 at 1:06 am
Hi J2Kfm,
Glad you found your way here. Do support us like the way I support your wonderful food blog.
April 7th, 2010 at 2:31 pm
ika,
Unfortunately, I went overseas in 1969 and when I returned in 1980, all my records have disappeared. The only one I have are cds of the Quest which I bouth last year. I’m now living overseas, and was quite sad to see Ipoh (was there last year) town crumbling - at least old town where I was living. I thought I managed to hear the Fabulous Falcons (one song at least here: http://www.youtube.com/user/JoeWuSeattleWaUSA
April 7th, 2010 at 2:33 pm
ika,
Oh yes try this link
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=fabulous+falcons&aq=f
April 8th, 2010 at 4:32 am
Ipohgal, sadly some of those buildings you mentioned are either ‘in pieces’ or have already been demolished…..
it’s sad, but that’s what happens when people have “no regard for heritage”
April 9th, 2010 at 8:51 am
This is another familiar sight for me.I used to walk past this place whenever I went to Cowan Street and Jalan Leong Sin Nam for tuition.What a pity it was torn down.The problem with the authorities is that they have very little regards for buildings with colonial flavour.Hope they will not touch those in the old town area which make Ipoh so special.
April 13th, 2010 at 5:43 am
Mohd Fadli Mohd Shariff wrote on our Facebook wall: “bazar bulat… the place i bought my rubber soccer shoe… ha3…”
Restaurants, Sports items, LP Records, Scout’s Uniforms, School Bags, fake airline bags, rubber soccer shoes. Is there anything this place did not sell?
By the way, Allan, I followed the link you suggested but the music is not a patch on their “Midnight Express” I heard once. If anyone has that single from the Falcons we would love to borrow/buy it.
April 14th, 2010 at 9:46 am
There was a jamming studio on the 1st floor which played a role in producing 80’s malay rock bands from Ipoh. You must have been there if you are a rocker in those days.
April 15th, 2010 at 12:22 am
a jamming studio? really?? cool!!! sigh, if only I’d ‘discovered’ it before the bazaar ‘disappeared’……..
April 15th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Ika,
The song on You Tube had Thomas Ham(?) on guitar, as the original guitarist (nicknamed no 13 in Chinese was a much better guitarist) decided to be the drummer not long after Midnight Express was released. If I could remember they abandoned their Fender guitars for Mosrite guitars.
I remember going to the Jubilee Park nearby to listen to the bands playing - its a joget dance hall on the right as you enter Jubilee Park. Still remember a v good bass guitarist playing there with some saxaphone player - around 1964-1965.
April 16th, 2010 at 12:09 am
Hi Allan. You wouldn’t happen to have pics of that band at Jubilee Park, would you?
April 16th, 2010 at 2:21 pm
Felicia,
Heavens no - I was in Form 2/3 at that time - no proper camera and at night as well. We were just kids standing on the outside of the dance hall - it was just closed off by some railings.
September 4th, 2010 at 10:00 pm
Hi, All.
In the good old days, the locals used to refer to the Yau Tet Shin bazaar as either “Barg Gog Teng Si Cheong” (Cantonese meaning ‘octagonal station market’), “Barg Gog Lau”, or simply “Barg Gog Teng”.
Literally translated, “barg gog” means ‘eight-sided’ or ‘octagonal’. “Teng” is ’station’. “Si Cheong” is ‘market’.
My late sister worked at the Music City Record Shop in the 70s.
October 3rd, 2010 at 9:25 am
Oh yes, Bazar Bulat as what we called it, it was here I bought my first pair of football boots, an Adidas Inter and my ever loved boots, The Puma Maradona 10, I learned to pot snooker here, and yes the SYJ Jamming studio was located here, hehe…Bazar Bulat…why la the brought it down for a car park instead, why?
October 4th, 2010 at 3:04 pm
I remembered my mom bought school uniforms for us from that place. There were Tambun pomaloes, Menglembu ground nuts and other titbits of food selling there.
Many tourists buses and outstation buses stopped there for shopping spree. It was once a popular tourist spot for shopping in Ipoh.
October 6th, 2010 at 10:47 pm
I am an Ipoh boy and left Ipoh in 1969 and have resided overseas till now. Sad that the [lace is in a mess. Reallhad fond memories of Ipoh. Sorry Allan but Thomas Ham plays rythmn guitar and not Lead. I thing you mean Joe Chin. Also I remember the band Herman Kong and the Evergreens dubbed as the Herman Hermits of Ipoh
October 9th, 2010 at 2:08 pm
It is a pity that they demolished the Yau Tet Shin Market [I don't think it was known as the "bazaar"]. At that time there was talk of having another building there. Today it is used as a car park. I remember the restaurant Chow Kee was there.
November 25th, 2010 at 10:24 pm
Round Market!
Fond memories of the place =) Used to get everything a kid needs from there XD
I was there too on the night it caught fire about 12yrs ago. It was deemed unsafe since then. Would still been around today if it weren’t for the fire i think.
@Felicia: Some of the traders moved to the shop lots along Jalan Sultan Iskandar but most of them packed up.
@Azlan Zaaiya: There’s Scissors Studio just across from the site opened by a guy named Syed. His dad and uncles were part of that prime 80’s era and the legacy lives on =)