Bangsar Shopping Guide

NST,July 1992

A Bangsar Baru entrepreneur has produced a shopping guide for the commercial centre.

General Manager of Cloud 10, a travel and tours agency in Jalan Telawi Dua, YS Chan, said the guide
 would benefit consumers and residents in Bangsar Baru.

The guide, ‘Shopping in Bangsar Baru’ is a four page, two colour leaflet, which categorises 44
businesses in Bangsar Baru.

It lists the shops, their addresses and telephone numbers with attractive photographs.

A map of the commercial centre is also included in the guide.

The businesses are divided according to their nature – fast food chains, sundry shops,
sports shops, insurance agencies, bookstores, opticians and pubs among others.

Chan said the guide would make it more convenient and save time for consumers when they shop
in Bangsar Baru.

He said the guide would be printed and distributed free to all shop owners and residents.

‘Many new businesses distribute flyers before they open. Unfortunately, people do not keep these
flyers”.

A photograph showing Chan holding up the Shopping Guide 18 years ago accompanied this
report

PS.       At that time, the centre part of Bangsar Baru between Jalan Telawi Dua and Jalan Telawi
Tiga was still under construction. The area between Bangsar Village (at that time Hankyu Jaya)
 and Jalan Telawi Empat was later constructed.

            I was then able to see the potential of Bangsar Baru before it started to boom and became the
 forerunner of many other popular nightspots such as Heritage Row, Bintang Walk,
Cangkat Bukit Bintang, Desa Sri Hartamas, and Solaris and so on.

            18 years down the road, flyers are still being widely distributed. They are ignored or treated
as nuisance by the public. Customers will find shopping guides similar to mine more useful and
the shops would be keen to take up advertising space.