Last Thursday it was reported in the papers that the Majestic Building is given up for sale at $48 million dollars. Though I never frequent its stores, nor watch any shows there before 2002, it did struck me as a worthy piece of our national heritage for its artistic facade, earlier in the year when I passed by it along Eu Tong Sen Road (Chinatown). Incidentally, I learnt from the report that the Majestic was built by Eu Tong Sen (a philanthropist) for his wife to watch opera shows by performers from China. During the Jap Occupation, it became a theatre for the Japanese. With so much history behind this building, it is more than just Majestic.
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