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Singapore Lake

History

Singapore Lake was one of was formerly just a body of water with a scary house overlooking it (see photo). It's main attraction was a wave and smoke machine. However, in 1976 that all changed forever when Jaws moved in.

Singapore Lake before Jaws (around 1968) photo courtesy of Dickens Archive
Singapore Lake before Jaws (around 1968) photo courtesy of Dickens Archive
Jaws lake in the late 1970s
Jaws lake in the late 1970s
'Lighting and wave machines blow up storm across Singapore Lake (Psucho House in background)' (Postcard 189, from 1975) Note: The Psycho typographical error is on the postcard!
'Lighting and wave machines blow up storm across Singapore Lake (Psucho House in background)' (Postcard 189, from 1975) Note: The Psycho typographical error is on the postcard!
In the years before the shark arrived, Singapore Lake, as it was then, only had one scary feature - the Psycho house overlooking it. (Photo from late 1960s)

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