To hear Billie's recollection of KL and Singapore, and the help of an ama in raising four boys while Douglas was posted to Malaysia as a pilot and trainer, click here: http://www.archive.org/details/AustralianAirmansWifeRecallsKualaLumpurC1950
Billie's vivid recollection of Kuala Lumpur in the late Fifties - 'not a skyscraper in sight' and of locals wearing traditional cheongsams, saris and kebayas inspired this search for old footage of KL- pictured here in this view, just a few years on...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96CUt-_i-kA&feature=PlayList&p=EF0C03E544562464&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=10Note the dazzling Moorish inspired architecture of Central Station - holding many a travellers' and expats' memories of arriving from Singapore via Johore Baru. And here's a trip across the causeway to Singapore wet markets circa 1960 :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cymVNcpnXTY&feature=PlayList&p=EF0C03E544562464&index=6Type
Contrast a ride on Jalan Ampang now! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6igkbFbTC2s&feature=fvwType
