Labels:text | newspaper | publication | screenshot OCR: TRAVEL Timepiece of the past preserved for the future GHOSTS, As the golden age of travel, from the 1880s to the 1930s, ARISTOCRATS, encompassed both the establishment of Raffles Hotel and its AND THE OCCASIONAL TRAMP. heyday, the hotel fea- They've all stayed at Raffles. Charlie Chaplin, tures prominently in John "The Duke" Wayne and numerous many of the guidebooks and postcards of the "Queens" of the silver screen. Blue blooded time-and the museum houses an impressive nobility, politicians and writers, presidente, collection of these. Of particular interest to philat- emperors, and, according to a guest in room elists is the collection of postal chops and the Raf- 83, a rather charming ghost with a penchant fles Hotel letterheads. for singing nursery rhymes. Many of the guests A number of 19th-century photographs of Singa- who passed through Raffles' portals are now pore and Southeast Asia forms another important enshrined in the mythology of the grand old facet of the museum collection. dame of the East, new restored to all her As these pre-date the era of tourist photography, former glory. The ideal place to stay, to dine, they represent important historical documentation to shop, or to simply sip on a sling. of early life in Singapore. Raffles Hotel. 1 Beach Road, A Percy Carpenter engraving-regarded by Singapore 0718. Telephone: many as the most important 19th-century print 3371886 Telex: RS 99028 RHSIN Fax: 399 7630 of the island-and a map of Singapore dating back RAFFLES HOTEL E MANAGED BY RAFFLES INTERNATIONAL LIMITED. SINGAPORE
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