Kitten, string, and soft drink

Another in the series of retro photographic memory, from around 1974. As usual, click on the photo for a full sized version.

R: The kitten is playing with plastic raffia, which displaced the natural raffia for tying parcels. Which in retrospect was bad for the environment. That's probably the mother cat sleeping behind the kitten.

B: Bubble-up lime and lemon was a popular drink in Malaysia at the time. The slogan Kiss of Lemon, Kiss of Lime is visible. (I had not known it came from the US until I researched for this blog.) It was a competitor to 7 Up and had the advantage of supplying 10.5 fluid oz. instead of the 7 fluid oz. of 7 Up. The reason we had a couple of cases was because my dad liked to have soft drinks in the fridge. I liked it too. For most people soft drinks were taken in a "coffee shop" or restaurant, and only served in the home on special occasions such as Chinese New Year. The Green Spot brand of still orange drink was popular. Here you see it advertised on the signage of a restaurant in Kajang which was about an hour's drive south (in those days) from KL and was famous for satay restaurants. We had stopped there to lunch driving back from Segamat, where we had overnighted with my cousins on our way back from Singapore. The picture was taken from the restaurant we were lunching at. That hazy patch in the middle is probably the smoke from the satay braziers.