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Sukhumvit Stories. Washington Square Bars, Bangkok CIA Connection. The Fall of Soi 22.

 

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When a beer in Bangkok was 50 US cents: low-cost, low-rise laid-back city of old has given way to a metropolis of high-rises and high prices

• Expats who arrived in Bangkok in the 1960s and ’70s recall living on a shoestring and feeling spoiled in a city that was laid-back and a lot smaller than today
• Since then the Thai capital has grown bigger than London, and lot more expensive, and much of Old Bangkok has been bulldozed for malls, condos and office towers

  Dean Barrett, an American mystery writer, sits in an English-style tavern that is one of his remaining old haunts in Bangkok, sipping a black Russian cocktail as he ponders the curious quirks of fate.

  “My story is very simple,” says Barrett, a lanky 78-year-old with a moustache and a mischievous smile. “I love Chinese culture and history. But I’m sitting here and not at some American university as a professor.”

  The reason is that, in 1965, the Connecticut native enlisted in the US Army so he could learn

  Chinese

  at a military-run language institute in California. “Having trained me as a translator for a year, the army put me on a plane to Bangkok,” he says. “All I knew was that it was in Southeast Asia.”

  No sooner had Barrett, aged 23, landed in the Thai capital in 1966 than his plan to devote himself to China studies began to unravel. “I got off the plane and saw a Thai woman for the first time, and that was the end of the great China scholar I wanted to be,” he says with a laugh...

  https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3116885/when-beer-bangkok-was-50-us-cents-low-cost-low-rise-laid?fbclid=IwAR0ogMSSreH8osNP-T3iVTqniVEdEcc7D1iuC4eZbOdV1hSikZqj5VsPBLQ

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Around the peak of exchange rates, I think 2000/2002? Beer could be had for 60 baht, which was around $1,

 

That was a pretty good time depending where you drank,

 

Even in Cowboy it was very cheap

 

Cowboy is now more expensive than drinking in Oz

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Similar could be said about Shoestring budget during the 98 Asian crisis, try as one likes you just couldn’t spend money.

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PTBM,

We posted at the same time with the same thought. 
 

if memory serves me well it was 98   ....     OMG happy days.

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Oz $ also way up

 

Oddly though I remember during the Asian Financial Crash that bar fines went up, logic being they needed more money

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A bomb went off tonight in Jamchuree Sq. In Bangkok. 4 hurts so far.

UPDATE: Police announced a bomb incident in front of Chamchuri Square. Total of 4 injured people asking for a result to follow the perpetrators.

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Today (16 January) Ph. tā t A.D. Krishna Phatcharoen, Deputy spokesman for the National Police Office, mentioned that there was a noise similar to explosion in the intersection of three neighborhoods. People were injured around 18.00 p.m. While police officers are on duty in front of Chamchuri Square building, there is a loud noise like firecracker in front of Chamchuri Square building. Then police officers in police station. Pathumwan has investigated. Found 4 minor injured people who are security guard. Chamchuri Square Mall 1, 1 Press and 2 Police Officers

 

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