1955-01-02  One and half years old

This was my second photo taken standing on this bench. The first one in 1953.

The most prestige place in my Grandmother’s old wooden house was this long wooden bench in the Veranda (騎樓). When important relatives such as the Phang family came, my Grandmother would invite them to go up to騎樓 (sometime called棚頂)

No sofa, no chair for the guests to sit on, this long wooden bench naturally became the prestige place for guest to sit on.  The other sitting were some wooden stools.  

Below the騎樓 (Veranda) was an empty space suppose to be the “open space sitting room” for social. But it has been used as a store area for fire wood. No gas or electricity those days. Cooking were done by fire wood.