The Magazine Stall
This magazine stall has been there for the longest time. It is one of the places where you can get all kinds of magazines.
Sorry, I have no other details about it. I should have stopped and interviewed the owner to ask about its history.
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Changed owner already. I dunno where the previous owner went but the current owner also owns one of the shops at Pesta, along the JPJ road and the one beside Pesta Post Office.
The really old magazine stalls is the one next to Odeon Cinema.
You didn’t mention the location. Is it Jalan Enggan? My mum call it ‘Jit Pun Koi’(Japanese street). Go along the lorong beside this magazine stall and u will find OCBC on your left and an old barber shop on your right. Ah See Wan Tan Mee is next to it. There are some stalls beside the barber shop; selling yam rice, fried popiah, soy milk and bakkua.
Used to hang around the stall while waiting for my father and brothers having their hair cut. It was long long time ago. Ai…
Lulu,
It is Jalan Ismail. My late dad used to bring my brother and I to the barber shop for a free service due to his special relationship with the barbers and the owner.
long ago used to have a fried kueh teow stall there, which according to my dad the stall owner eventually switch to the currently bak kua stall.
that was long long ago le, never go there for my haircut since my dad’s departure.
This magazine store is considered the most “complete” magazine stall in BP, u can find many kinds of magazines here- entertainment, gossip, comics, sports, computer games, electronic, photography, military, Time, Newsweek, Economics, Reader Digest etc etc etc. Until mid 1990s, it is situated next to the current location (the empty lot next to the stall in the above picture).
I used to patronized this mags stall when I was “younger”, now I am living in Klang, every time I come back to BP, I will not forget to come to this magazine stall. This magazine stall has changed owner a few time, I remember one of the owner is call Ali(seems every people call him by this name), I think he is still the owner, I am not sure.
The empty lot beside the magazine store used to be a warehouse for a lot of dried products. When I was a kid, I usually see truckloads of onions and shallots being brought in to this warehouse. It also housed a lot of pigeons but alas due to development it has been thrown down and guess what …. turned into a parking lot.
tigersden r right, the empty lot used to be a store or some sorts of dealer in dried products, if i m not mistaken it is called Yong Li Chan (sounds like that in Hokkien or Teochew dialect), my dad said the store has moved to Jalan Kluang during the 90s… and yes, those pigeons… good old days.
Ya, I remember the old building and the pigeons. But I never know that old building is a warehouse.
this is near the june florist rite…
Yep, opposite the florist (can’t remember which florist) and old RHB bank, same row as BP clinic.
yaya…
I know the whole history of this stall. The owner of this stall is
Ali Jinnah’s father. The stall was at the opposite of it’s current position with some tarpaulin covered zinc stall. Once during 1975 or 76 there was a massive road side stall clean up by Majlis. Almost every stall been relocated to bus station except this one where they did not moved.
I think the owner is still the same, but as usual Mamak’s will sub let they’re stalls whenever they return back for holidays to India.
used to go here when I was a teenager to get Kerrang! mag, Match mag, BMX… well like Bergkamp says it’s the most complete mag stall in BP during the late 80′s-90s…