I presume you mean “Orchard Road”, the premium shopping street in Singapore?
Shops galore are found both below and above ground:
We have underfloor heating fired by a furnace using either heating oil or wood of which we have plenty. The thermostats are kept at 18 C (64.4F) otherwise we find it is too hot.
We have friends with a large number of solar panels and a heat pump heating the water for the underfloor heating. The heat pump is set to operate during the day and the concrete slab stores enough heat to keep the temperature very comfortable throughout.
In our case running the furnace 4 to 5 hours a day keeps the 100 tonnes of concrete up to temperature.
I like it because it is completely silent and no drafts.
The shops on Orchard Road are devoid of anything that attracts my interest like tractors, fishing gear and small craft. I feel that I have all the clothes I need for the rest of my existence, a view not shared by my wife, and hence the problem. A trip down Orchard Road can leave me poorer and I still don’t get anything to eat.
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Yes it has been a lot of changes along Orchard Rd. since the 1960s and 1970s when you had Orchard Road Carpark Market (Glutton Square) just across from Cold Storage:
The carpark transformed into Glutton’s Square, a pop-up hawker centre at night.
Photo via National Archives of Singapore.
It shut down in 1978 and some of the hawkers moved to Newton Circus Hawker Centre and Cuppage Food Centre.
PS> There were no hypocrisy about the Car Park Market, so we are in the wrong thread here, If we want to continue this line of reminisens we better move to the a more appropriate thread.
correct it’s been a long time since i was there. still have my fake Rolex it in runs fine.
when i get the battery replaced, I always amused at the jeweler’s face when he tells me it not real
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Ah, A Lolex, perhaps a nice Partok Phillip for your lady.
Oh yes, memories of Hong Kong’s Golden Department Store. Best place to buy fake Rolex and pirated software!
Also smiles about the watchmaker saying “Sorry, this is not a Rolex but the band is excellent!”
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