A glossy, hardcover coffee table book with 64 original stories and more than 100 pictures of people growing up in Ipoh over the last 90 years.

Covering a broad spectrum of society encompassing all the main Peninsula Malaysian races, plus Caucasians and even an Iban; together they represent Ipoh past and present. Notable stories include a “Flying Tiger” who grew up in Market Street in the 1920s, Professor Wang Gungwu, a Greentown boy before the war, Lat (who has also written the Foreword) and a number of others from stage, screen and radio plus of course successful businessmen and women, housewives and mothers, and even children. The oldest contributor is 92 and the youngest 12. The book is therefore, a history of life in Ipoh through the eyes of young people.

With 280 pages and a wealth of original photographs, it is an ideal keepsake for anyone who has ever lived in Ipoh.