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529: 509: 281:-clad cabaret girls, known as 'taxi-girls' as they could be "hired" for dancing by anyone with a coupon. The dance floor could hold up to 500 twirling couples and each dance was registered on a card. Three dances cost a dollar and the girls were only paid 8 cents per dance. The earliest customers would secure their preferred dancers and also got seats nearest to the dancing girls. The girls were usually local or hailed from Hong Kong, 31: 560: 231:", New World had a huge fairground for all walks of life; couples would go to the park for evening strolls, housewives frequented the food and diverse stalls, men would hop from the barber shops to the nightclubs, while families piled into the cinemas and onto fairground rides like ferris wheels and carousels where two of its rides, the 206:, wrestler King Kong, strongman Mat Tarzan, and boxer Felix Boy. With the advent of shopping centres, discos and, particularly, television in the ensuing decades, the park business gradually became poor, and it was finally closed for good after being sold to a property developer for redevelopment in 1987. 451:
New World also hosted weekly boxing tournaments with fighters from Thailand, Philippines, Australia, as well as local pugilists. Malaysian boxer Felix Boy, who was born S. Sinniah, became a household name in the early 1960s. He stood just 1.5 metres tall but packed a terrific wallop in both fists and
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When I came in, and a crowd of dancers, mostly young Chinese – the men in white European clothes with black patent-leather dancing shoes, the girls in their semi-European dresses slit at the side – filled the dancing floor. When the dance was over I noticed a number of girls who left their partner as
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planning area, as it occupied a large area of 45,000 square feet (4,200 m) in size. Before the arrival of televisions and radios, it attracted people from all walks of life from labourers to Europeans with its exciting attractions such as striptease, cabaret girls, opera shows and boxing matches
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Ahmad Ali, better known as Mat Tarzan (or "Tarzan of Malaya") (1931–2015), was a well-known Malaysian strongman. Mat hailed from Penang and was the son of the late Haji Ali, who used to be a chef at Kedah House, now known as Istana Kedah in Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah. During his prime, his famous feats
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title once. In 1938, he went to Singapore at the age of 19 with a troupe of European wrestlers to perform at the New World. Known for being "the meanest" amongst the wrestlers at New World, a former spectator, Abdul Wahab Mohamad said King Kong was the wrestler fans just loved to hate: "He would be
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in Thailand, and they died there. As a result, he and his elder brother, Shanmugam, were taken in by an orphanage. At nine, he used to watch a skilful Thai boxer in action at New World and that was the beginning of his interest in boxing. A French priest, Father Louis Ribaud of the St Joseph's
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act; in which she cavorted with a large and sinuous python, coiling it provocatively round her bare body. Despite being labelled by conservatives as a 'rebel', she was kind hearted and gave money to charities and orphanages. She gave up her striptease career when she embarked on a new career –
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expanded their leisure business with a 50% joint venture with Ong Sam Leong Ltd. Shaw eventually bought out their partner and owned both the New World and the Great World at Kim Seng Road. Admission fee was only 10-cent per entry but visitors had to pay separately for its various entertainment
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New World faded from the night scene after the 1960s in the face of rival entertainment attractions such as shopping centres, discos and particularly television which took off locally in 1963. In April 1987, New World finally closed when Shaw Organisation sold the freehold site for
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police had to move in to manage crowd control and issued a final warning that "this monkey business must cease". Striptease was thus stopped in its tracks but in time, it resurfaced back in New World again when Rose Chan took over the centre-stage in the 1950s.
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soldiers and returning expatriates with their families. With the departure of those troops that resulted in much lower takings, the park decided to come up with a new attraction in 1949 – striptease. Madame Tai Fong, a former singer and dancer, started the
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would ensure that such decorum was followed and they would not hesitate to throw out any trouble-makers or drunks found in the premises. Bruce Lockhart, a British army intelligence officer-cum-journalist, described his visit to the New World's dance hall:
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when he was here. We have another amusement park called the Great World, off River Valley Road, and it is well worth a visit, but it is not so boisterously alive as is the New World, since it caters to a much smugger class.
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and turned into a gambling farm opened only to civilians but not Japanese soldiers. As commodities were scarce during the Occupation, the park was also turned into a black market selling necessities at inflated prices.
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Today, the site where the park sat is being developed by City Developments Limited for its City Square project, comprising a 910-unit condominium (City Square Residences), an eight-storey shopping mall
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in 1966. Mat Tarzan was also a good cook in his own right, having picked up some useful culinary skills from his father, specialising in Malay dishes such as mee bandung, ox-tail soup and
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The park, which was completed in 2009, featured the original gate to the former New World when the refurbished gate was moved to the right side of the park's entrance in late 2010.
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during its heyday. Of all the artistes and athletes who have performed at the New World through the years, four have left a lasting impression – striptease queen
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challenging and threatening the jeering fans to get into the ring with him. He always won his fights. He was always too big and too strong for his opponents."
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soon as the music stopped and went to join other girls in a sort of pen. They were the professional dancers who can be hired for a few cents a dance.
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Orphanage in Jalan Penang where Sinniah grew up, gave him the name of "Felix Boy" which was to bring him fame and glory in the ring in later years.
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were crowd-pullers. In 1934, Dato Roland St. John Braddell, who was born in Singapore and served as Municipal Commissioner (1914–1929) wrote:
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Wai Cheng, who was China-born but locally raised, took up her striptease act when she was 27. She was known as the local
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On 12 March 1970, Czaya was driving back to Singapore after a bout in Penang when his car crashed into a wall in
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and Singapore night crowds from the 1920s to the 1960s. New World was a prominent landmark along
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Sinniah had a tragic childhood. At the age of five, his parents were captured and sent by the
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programmes and hawker stalls within. Advertising itself as the "pioneer amusement park in
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35 million (US$ 23 million), to City Developments, a property firm owned by
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After the war, the park roared back into life again when it was widely patronised by
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At New World, there are all sorts of entertaining sideshows. Best of all are the
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Rashiwala, Kalpana (8 June 2005). "CityDev scores another residential coup".
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were soon pulling in huge crowds; the crowds got worse to the point that the
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Phan, M. Y (9 June 1995). "Three Worlds and a time when life is a cabaret".
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Feng, Charissa (9 February 2005). "Whatever happened to... Sakura Teng?".
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as she was nicknamed, cut more than 50 records and was best known for her
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often despatched his taller opponents by the second or third round in the
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and Ong Peng Hock under the company Ong Sam Leong Ltd. In the 1930s, the
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Rahman, Shukor (12 November 1996). "The 'Fab Four' of New World Park".
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but her memory lingers. A movie based on her life was made in 2008 by
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and took her acts around the three Worlds. She was famous for her
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divisions. Out of 84 fights, he lost two – both to Thai boxers.
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Chan, Kwee Sung (12 June 2000). "Worlds of fun in the past".
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The now defunct gateway of New World, circa December 2010
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in 1976. In 1989, she died of cancer at the age of 62 in
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At New World, a great number of men would come daily to "
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operating a hotel and restaurant in Jalan Raja Laut,
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and his family for future commercial redevelopment.
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Kallang
Singapore
Coordinates
1°18′37.0″N 103°51′28.5″E / 1.310278°N 103.857917°E / 1.310278; 103.857917
Shaw Organisation
Chinese
amusement parks
Great World
Gay World
Malaya
Jalan Besar
Kallang
Rose Chan
Straits Chinese
Ong Boon Tat
Shaw Organisation
Malaya
Malay
Chinese
Charlie Chaplin
ronggeng
Malay
cha-cha
cheongsam
Thailand
Philippines
bouncers
Japanese Occupation
Allied

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