ArkiKilledMe: October 2006

Capitol Cinema Windows & Sewage Pipes

Sewage pipes, stack pipes placed outside of the building. Kinda of make sense as you do not want the shit in your building.

Capitol Theatre

C A P I T O L T H E A T R E ,
19 5 8 During the 1950's & 1960's, the Shaw Brothers were some of Asia's most prolific filmmakers, and, like other film companies of the same era, they owned and operated a number of their own movie theatres in Singapore, Hong Kong, and elsewhere to show their own work and foreign features. All of the films on this marquee are imports; if the titles are of any indication, this postcard dates from around 1958. The main feature is Bengal Brigade; also showing are The Law and Jake Wade, Vice Exposé, and The Flesh Is Weak. I don't know how long the electric buses plied Singapore's streets, but my Singaporean wife, born in 1964, cannot remember any from her youth. Tri-shaws, like that in the lower left of the postcard, still travel some of Singapore's streets as for the benefit of tourists.
Taken from: http://www.straitscafe.com/postcards/singapore1/marquee.htm

This view from the Swisshotel Stamford, shows the Capitol building on the corner of Stamford Road / North Bridge Road in Singapore in 2006. The Capitol Theatre, which became a cinema in 1946, and is now closed, is the building with the green barrel roof and prominent red tiled fly tower to the left of shot.
Taken from irishcine's photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/43944923@N00/256222713/

Taken from: http://www.a2o.com.sg/a2o/public/search/index.html

The building is still there, go down and feel passing of time,
look at the mild steel windows, the peeling walls,
feel the spirit of the place, glide through the escape stairs, into the walls within
stop, pause, imagine, experience, learn.

move 2 steps back to progress forward.