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Ho Hoo Wan And Friends Visit One Of The Gopeng Road Cave Temples

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Subject :Ho Hoo Wan and Friends Visit One of the Gopeng Road Cave Temples
Published By : None 
Location : Ipoh
Estimated Year : 1958
Media Type : Photograph
Source : Ho Hoo Wan, Ipoh
Remark : The life of young Ho Hoo Wan from Batu Gajah (grandson of Ho Yuk Phooi) and his friends had plenty of unsupervised relaxation outside of school hours as other entries in this archive demonstrate. Here he is visiting one of the many Gopeng Road cave temples with a group consisting mainly of pretty girls. It is 22 April 1958.

  • In the photograph on the left can be seen:

    Far Back: Khi Yin Peng.

    Centre left to right: Wong Yee Sum, Wong Ngan Mei, Siew Lan, Siew Peng, Ho Hoo Wan.

    Sitting on the right: Annie Tang.

  • In the right hand photo is Annie Tang, clearly posing rather than praying, at the altar.

  • To read more about Ho Yuk Phooi and his family, click here.

    To see some of the same group of young people having fun at a Batu Gajah mining pool, click here.

    To see some of the same group of young people at the Kampar waterfalls, click here.

    To see some of the same group of young people visiting a dredge, click here.

    Filename : 20100110-010