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No 150-164, Jalan TAR

The Art Deco style is continued in this block as can be seen in the flagpoles, flutings and gables. Cantilevered window shades provide variation.

While other Chinese, Indian and Japanese enterprises used to operate here, only a few tenants from the 1940s have remained.

In 1941, KS Gill, a 26-year-old Sikh civil servant from Singapore, came to Kuala Lumpur on a holiday. He liked the town so much that he decided to set up as a specialist, selling and servicing pens and other writing instruments.

Yip Kar Yew started Wing Sun & Co in 1939 as a sign-maker who introduced neon lights, awnings, venetian blinds and plastic signs to the town.

KK Kafetaria began as a coffee shop, which was started by Wong See Kong in 1939. In 1949, it became a hotel and milk bar, popular with British soldiers. The hotel was closed in the 1960s and KK expanded the restaurant business into food catering.

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