This too was Georgetown.2

The is not changes as far as the buildings are concern compared to the above pictures especially the one that reads Brick Kln road. The Vespas scooters were in style during those years alongside the earlier models of Hondas and Suzukis. Where cars are concern they were still in the vintage stage with cars like the Vauxhall and Fiats making appearences to replace the old Morris Minor.





Since independence, there have been some changes to the official names of some streets. On the whole, however, like Singapore and unlike many other cities in Malaysia, George Town has retained most of its colonial street names, although until recently they have been indicated on street signs only in their Malay translations.
Until 2007, street signs in George Town were only written in Malay, as a result of the national language policy. Unfortunately, this had the effect of confusing tourists, who found it difficult to match the English names commonly used by Penangites with the Malay names on street signs which were often very different. In the case of proper nouns, the English name is easily recognisable, e.g. Kimberley Street is Lebuh Kimberley. In other cases, however, the Malay translation may be unfamiliar to those who do not speak the language, e.g. Church St is literally translated as Lebuh Gereja (from the Portuguese igreja). A few streets have been given completely new names in Malay.
Even where official street names have changed, the local population have largely continued informally to use the old names when referring to streets. This is partly because the new names are often unwieldy (e.g. Green Lane vs Jalan Masjid Negeri, Pitt Street vs Jalan Masjid Kapitan Keling, or Northam Road vs Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah), but also reflects a strong conservatism in the local population, who see Penang's colonial history as part of their local identity. When Scott Road was renamed Jalan D S Ramanathan, after the first Mayor of the City of George Town, the new street signs were repeatedly defaced and had to be replaced several times, eventually forcing the city authorities to fix a replacement street sign fifteen feet up a lamppost (instead of at waist-height, as was then usual).

 

King Street( 大伯公街) is between Light Street(莱特街) and Chulia Street(牛干冬). It was named after King George III(1760-1820). The Chinese called it with various names,depending on location. King Street is located within the Georgetown Unesco World Heritage historic core site. It is within the original grid laid out by Capt Francis Light, the founder of George Town.



Burmah Road or Jalan Burmah is located between Penang Road and Gottlieb Road, Bagan Jermal Road and Mount Erskine Road. It is one of the main road in Georgetown and a long throughout. Burma Road was the only road where, once upon a time, you can meet communities from South-east Asia and the Middle-east. Most of the communities are sadly gone today due to commercial development of their 'kampungs'(villages) or because of migration.




 During the sixties and much earlier the Mamaks often share their food stall space often attached to a Chinese restaurant which you can hardly any Malays doing so. Malays who consider themselves Muslims are more concerned about serving or working alongside non Muslim customers when it comes to serving food. The feeling of 'Jijik' or simply 'yeachy' feeling about the whole experience makes them steer clear from Chinese restaurants. Most of this feeling is the fact that pork is being served at these restaurants.

Georgetown in the sixtiies to my memory was a place that  was safe to move around in  however most of us living in and around the city area would not venture too far out from its outskirts or the so called rural areas where even then these areas were still in the process of getting settled down. The area that is today Relau and even Bayan Lepas , Paya Terubung and Mount Eskine iwas back then considered still under developed and the Gertak Sangol and Balik Pulau areas were a whole different uncharted territory at least where we children growing up then were concern.