Singapore Malaysia Cathay Hotel

Original vintage travel poster - Visit Singapore Malaysia and stay at Cathay Hotel Singapore cable Cathayrest - featuring a bright and colourful design with various illustrations including traditional dancers and musician in costume, ancient and historic temples and mosques, a lady in a cheongsam dress waving, an iconic Chinese New Year lion dance performance and fireworks, tourists riding a rickshaw, a rubber plantation worker, palm trees, a lady in a stylish batik dress holding a red hibiscus flower (the national flower of Malaysia), and an image of the Cathay Building with the bold stylised lettering above and below. Opened in 1939 by the founder of the Cathay Organisation, Dato Loke Wan Tho (1915-1964), the Cathay Cinema Building / Bangunan Cathay was the first air-conditioned building and first skyscraper in Southeast Asia with a dance hall, restaurant, roof garden and residential block; the building was used by the British Malaya Broadcasting Corporation during World War Two and taken over by the Japanese after the Fall of Singapore in 1942; the restaurant reopened in 1948 and in 1954 the building reopened as the Cathay Hotel with a restaurant, nightclub, swimming pool and shopping arcade; the hotel closed in 1970 and the building has since been through various conversions and redevelopments. Good condition, creasing, small tears, minor staining, gloss finish.