After penang I headed south and pitched up in kuala lumpur (literally ‘muddy river mouth'), or KL as pretty much every expat in the region referred to it. I still remember the flight because of the way the pilot threaded his way through the numerous thunder storms in the area. It was almost balletic, the way he banked first to one side then to the other, weaving his way between the thunder heads and not a single shake of the plane, not that I recall anyway.
I didn't have a KL agenda, I was just passing through. One night in a doss house then a bus to Singapore. KL back in 1989 was under construction and that's what the image below shows – a string of shop fronts, the last vestiges of a trading street like the one I shot in penang, being torn down for modern edifices in concrete, steel and glass.
I wonder how any former customers of the green shop wandered over to their new location. Clearly their clientele were primarily English speakers, why else would their notice have been written in English? And I suspect that No. 9 may also have been demolished in turn as KL has changed a lot in the intervening years.
Sadly I've no notes that tell me where this was take – no public portable GPS existed back then and I wasn't good at taking location notes.
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