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Hugo’s Grill, advertised as “ the finest restaurant in the far east”, was the place to see and be seen (you know you’ve made it when you host the Singapore University Trishaw Pageant). “ Can’t you read, stupid?” was scribbled on one of them- fairly tame by the standards of today’s online discourse. So popular was the venue that guests’ cars would sometimes spill over into neighbouring residential areas, leading to a high-profile incident where attendees of the Singapore Institute of Planners’ annual dinner found their tires slashed and bonnets defaced by disgruntled residents. The Singapore Hyatt Hotel (as it was then known) fast became a mecca for socialites, hosting dinner & dance functions, conferences, and pageants of all kinds. Who’d have thought that a hotel heralded by the nondescript headline “New hotel opens for business” (also in that day’s edition: “Government minister says things”) would become so indelibly etched into the fabric of Singapore society? If there’s one thing the Grand Hyatt Singapore has going for it, it’s nostalgia.