Remembering life in Fullerton Building on its 90th anniversary

Hard to imagine perhaps, but in the 1990s, before mobile phones became a common feature, sailors landing in Singapore had to rush to the General Post Office (now The Fullerton Hotel Singapore) to make calls to their loved ones overseas.

They would line up for handwritten queue numbers issued by telecommunications operators and make the calls from five or so phone booths on the ground floor of the building.