A History of an Icon
By Koay Su Lyn
April 2016 WINDOW INTO HISTORY
The Chinese Recreation Club began with a few young men needing a place to play football.It stands at the end of Jalan Pangkor. The impressive and imposing building crafted in Victorian fashion has been the site for gatherings and activities organised by Penang’s Chinese community for the past 85 years.This is Penang’s Chinese Recreation Club (CRC), whose year of birth has generally been mistaken to be 1931. In fact, the CRC came into being four decades before that, in 1890.Before...
Koay Su Lyn
reads and writes of the past to make sense of the present. She is a research analyst in the History and Heritage Programme of Penang Institute.
