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Olympic Inn And Golden Jubilee Restaurant
The first picture shows a receipt from Olympic Inn - a once famous club/hotel in the 60's. From what Ngai C O tells us, Olympic Inn was situated just before the turning into Canning Estate - before Tambun Inn (formerly known as King's Hotel).
According to Old Horse, "the Olympic Inn was converted into a hostel for outstation students called Asrama Perak before turning into a training centre for the first electronic plant in Perak sometime in the early 70s. Carter Semiconductor now known as Carsem is currently located at the airport road. Tambun Inn, about 300m down the road, was known as King’s Hotel those days. It’s night-club was the “happening” place in the 60s & 70s and we spent many a Saturday nights carousing there."
Ruth Iversen Rollitt also remembers Olympic Inn being "on Tambun Road, just before The Thai temple and the road that led into our house at 110 Tambun Road – one of the 9 houses designed by my father, B M Iversen, both before and after the war. The Olympic Inn is just after the turning to Canning Gardens (when coming from Ipoh) – just a rubber estate – when I was very young. The Olympic Inn is still there – a white curved building."
Sybil de Roquigny shared the following with us: "I haven’t been up (“up” because we used to live in Caldwell Road, nearer town) Tambun Road for more than 20 years as I no longer live in Malaysia, therefore, I am unable to visualize the changes. However, in the 60s, Olympic Inn was the name of the hotel before the turning of Canning Gardens. Right after the hotel is the semi curved building which once belonged to Ng Khoon Khoon and his wife who were very good friends of my parents. As children, we sometimes slept overnight in this house next to hotel. There was a mini zoo at the back of this semi curved building. I had mentioned in one of my previous postings that John Mills came with Hayley to perform in Olympic Inn. Tambun Inn (built much later) was the building in front of the Thai temple near the Convent school."
The second picture shows a receipt from Golden Jubilee Restaurant, along Kampar Road (now Jalan Raja Permaisuri Bainun). At that time, a bottle of Anchor beer (at this restaurant) cost $ 1.40.
Old Horse told us that "Golden Jubilee is now Sun Lee How Fook Restaurant moved from its original location at Jalan Ali Pitchay. It’s directly opposite The Store and connected by an overhead pedestrian bridge. Never ate there before as I’d always thought it was a cabaret and therefore a no, no place to be in!"
SK shared that Golden Jubilee "was a Night Club located just before you reach Housing Trust from the left after you past MGS roundabout. There was an AOG Church next to it. Behind Golden Jubilee . there was a Private School & from there, the road leads you to Gopeng Road & Ipoh Famous Crown Fountain. I was a young lad then & I have never had an opportunity to dine there as it was a forbidden zone."
We thank all our Blog Readers (above) for the information. We would love to hear from others who may have more to tell about both these places.