The_Munchmaster Posted October 10, 2019 Report Share Posted October 10, 2019 Queens Park Plaza is to close at the end of January next year according to Stickboy Bangkok. He also states that 10+ of the bars are moving to a new complex on Soi 7, which is due to open next month. https://www.stickboybkk.com/news/queens-park-plaza-set-close-early-2020/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffalo_bill Posted October 11, 2019 Report Share Posted October 11, 2019 16 hours ago, The_Munchmaster said: He also states that 10+ of the bars are moving to a new complex on Soi 7, which is due to open next month. Fascinating news, but where would that be? I could only imagine this to be the space where previously a seafood restaurant has been located. Though there is nothing as per Monday this week that looks like being opened next month. The Stickman might know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Munchmaster Posted October 11, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2019 If the Beer Bar is still open then the only place I can think of that could handle a number of bars is the open air eating area on the other side of the soi. Mind you it's so long since I've been down there that it could all have changed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted October 11, 2019 Report Share Posted October 11, 2019 That's what I was thinking... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baa99 Posted October 11, 2019 Report Share Posted October 11, 2019 Time for an in depth investigation! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffalo_bill Posted October 12, 2019 Report Share Posted October 12, 2019 Thinking deeply about a name for the new place I am currently proposing TRUMP PLAZA which will make it the greatest bar area ever. In history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nasiadai Posted October 12, 2019 Report Share Posted October 12, 2019 Washington Square fell victim to the wrecking ball a few years ago. Now Queens Park Plaza has to bite the dust. The only constant is the change. I remember Washington Square:Washington Square was located on the Sukumvhit between the Soi 22 and Soi 24; a plaza with about a dozen pubs that have settled there since the end of the 70s. A meeting place for Anglo-American "local expats" as well as a few Vietnam veterans and Anglo long-term vacationers; mostly pensioners, drinking away their pensions ... The "Silverdollar", the "Prince of Wales", the "Wild Country Bar", the "Texas Lone Star", the "New Square One Pub" and some others. When you entered these bars, you noticed that these pubs breathe history, these pubs can tell an infinite number of great stories. When I discovered them around 1997/98, I thought I was in the heart of Düsseldorf's Old Town. Among the Anglo-American guests of Washington Square there were some interesting types; unfortunately most of them already deceased. It was always great to talk to them for two or three hours. The only one still active is Richard Diran. Have a look at the website. In memory of Washington Square, Richard painted a picture of the Texas Lone Star; at the bottom right he immortalized himself. On it the regulars, the girls; he tried to capture the atmosphere of this pub. I remember the king of the "squaronions" Kurt Francis. "Your voice of Bangkok". http://www.diranart.com/store/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=172 www.Diranart.com 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nasiadai Posted October 12, 2019 Report Share Posted October 12, 2019 The fate that has befallen Washington Square is now threatening Queens Park Plaza. Queens Park Plaza, like the WS, is also a high quality part of the real estate market, and so it is part of the Bangkok real estate market! In the long run, the higher yield will prevail over old-fashioned romanticism and individual wishful thinking. The bars, massage parlours, small shops and restaurants there did not generate enough turnover and did not make enough profit. Then comes a potent investor, and offers a new, rewarding, profitable use. The "new, modern times" have mercilessly wiped out this part of Bangkok. Luxurious hotel complexes, expensive restaurants, exclusive boutiques for the nouveau-rich Asian clientele have come with them a part of the old, romantic Bangkok has been extinguished. I can't turn the WS into a restricted area, a protected zone of my blessed memories. All of us together cannot declare Washington Square a UNESCO World Heritage Site and thus protect it from the wrecking ball. That is the wistful truth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Munchmaster Posted October 12, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2019 10 hours ago, Nasiadai said: All of us together cannot declare Washington Square a UNESCO World Heritage Site and thus protect it from the wrecking ball. That is the wistful truth. Even if we could it's a bit late now! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted October 13, 2019 Report Share Posted October 13, 2019 Rebuild, get a Chinese outfit to do a replica, like they do with Austrian Alpine towns... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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