cavanami 565 Report post Posted January 13 Looks interesting... Sukhumvit Stories. Washington Square Bars, Bangkok CIA Connection. The Fall of Soi 22. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cavanami 565 Report post Posted January 14 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
My Penis is hungry 311 Report post Posted January 14 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mekong 704 Report post Posted January 14 Similar could be said about Shoestring budget during the 98 Asian crisis, try as one likes you just couldn’t spend money. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mekong 704 Report post Posted January 14 PTBM, We posted at the same time with the same thought. if memory serves me well it was 98 .... OMG happy days. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
My Penis is hungry 311 Report post Posted January 14 Oz $ also way up Oddly though I remember during the Asian Financial Crash that bar fines went up, logic being they needed more money Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cavanami 565 Report post Posted January 17 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. . 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 Read more news at https://thestandard.co/#ม็อบ16มกรา #News #TheStandardNews Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
