The_Munchmaster Posted September 21, 2005 Report Share Posted September 21, 2005 In the office building next to mine (in Dubai) a restaurant has recently opened called Limelite, a name which instantly brought back very fond memories for me of a go-go bar in Patpong. It was called Limelight and was on PP1 at the Silom end and it had a late night meeting place of the same name next door to it. Both were managed by an Aussie, who's name I can't recall and to this day I have never been in a better go-go bar. It wasn't packed with 50 or 60 pre-teens but a good number of great girls who could really dance. This was back in the early to mid 90's when most go-go dancers actually danced, unlike the shufflers of today's go-go scene (does anyone know of any bars where the girls still dance?). I can't remember when it actually closed but must have been in 94 or 95, I think it's a leather goods store now. I never knew any of the girls by name but me and my mates had nicknames for them all, the ones that come to mind being The Dancer, The Cock Teaser and the Mappit Bush (she was daft as a brush and had a great bush). There was also a really cute deaf mute girl. After it closed I bumped into the Aussie guy a couple of times, once in Pattaya, but haven't seen him in a long time. Does anyone else have fond memories of the Limelight Bar and does anyone know what happened to the Aussie manager? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 21, 2005 Report Share Posted September 21, 2005 "Does anyone else have fond memories of the Limelight Bar and does anyone know what happened to the Aussie manager?" Yes, the Limelight was one of the first gogos i visited in 1988-9. It was my second favorite, at that time, after Pink Panther. I believe it may have closed earlier in the 90's, but not sure. Did not know the Ozzie manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-.-.- Posted September 22, 2005 Report Share Posted September 22, 2005 Limelight was a great bar and better managed than most in Patpong This post got me thinking....when did it close? I am pretty sure it was before the shock in '97. Anyone know for sure? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Munchmaster Posted September 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2005 I moved to LOS in March 1992 and I'm pretty sure it was closed within a couple of years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 23, 2005 Report Share Posted September 23, 2005 I went there Dec '94 so it was still open then, anyone remember touch bar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 Found this old thread. Yes, Limelight was a great bar and became my regular hangout from the mid to late eighties. I used to meet business collegues there, some consultancy people, some bankers and some big business expat representatives. This was before the ridiculous (in a tropical climate) dress code of wearing a dark suite was brought into Thailand so we guys did not look excessively over dressed in a gogo environment, even if we came directly from the office. The reason I could spend so much time at Limelight without massive face loss - or so I naively thought - was that the bar skillfully managed to float above the sleeze and in fact became a sort of trendy hip place, mainly due to the gentlemanship of the management - an Austrian with a Scandinavian mother I will remember. He brought the best girls and played the best pop music from the eighties, far above today's techno noise in the bar. As usual I fell in love with some of the dancers. The closing of Limelight in the mid ninetees marked the end of a lower key, less brutal and less pornographically explicit era of Thai night life. When Thailand decided, out of pure greed, to open itself to cheap mass turism, starting with a campaign in 1987, the stage gradually was set for today's raw and ugly "can-you-guys-recommend-a-good-anal-place" style of massmarket consumerism imported from the Western porno industry into the Bangkok nightlife sector. The image of farang sexual preferences in the eyes of the the Thais must be disastruos by now. I shouldn't paint the past in too bright colours of course - it was ugly under the surface for sure - but at least there was a more polished surface. I also don't want to appear as an "old Bangkok hand" (in fact I abstain from developing my Thai languague skills further just for this reason) and you will not find me in the "Safari" bar. But nonetheless a certain nostalgia may be allowed. The question now is if there is any chance to find a Limelight style place to hang out - to have fun and live out our hedonism without the sleeze and at least on the surface not being branded as a "monger" (I would say that nobody at Limelight thought of himself in this way, which no doubt reflected a significant degree of self delusion). One of the Rainbow bars has some potential partly due to a nice and friendly mamasan, partly due to the Japanese clientele, always better behaved than the typical farang tourist and not least to a few of the girls. Unfortunately the DJ is apparently totally tone deaf and probably soon will be clinically hearing impaired as well, like most of the staff and regulars. However, the whole nightlife scen in Bangkok is now so tainted with sleeze that even the most innocent visit to Rainbow for the fun of it and for the imaginery romance with some of the girls - one never learns - must be done with some discreetion. Could not resist this nostalgic posting when I saw the old "Limeligt" thread, now back to the igloo again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khwaimaisabai Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 carygrant said:The question now is if there is any chance to find a Limelight style place to hang out Hi cary, Maybe somewhere in Soi 33 would fit the bill. Not sure about the music requirements though. Khwai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadStockBroker Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 Q bar used to be a good place where you could chill after work or stay all night to party if you liked. This was in the late 90's early 2000. Then they added a ridiculus cover charge, hired DJ's with stupid names and required you to bring a passport just to get in. I have been to countries with less strict admitance procedures than this place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 khwaimaisabai said: carygrant said:The question now is if there is any chance to find a Limelight style place to hang out Hi cary, Maybe somewhere in Soi 33 would fit the bill. Not sure about the music requirements though. Khwai Thanks, thinking about Office myself. It has something of the right atmosphere, although being a hostess bar may be lacking the extra "jazzy; go out for fun" spice of gogo bars. But why not, with an up to date DJ. A nice element would be to make it natural for non-hostess girls to join the bar as guests. This was often the case with Limelight. The hostess character of Soi 33 is basically non-inclusive regarding female outsiders. Qbar is definitely not what I am after and not the Hi-so places either. Something is lacking on the Bkk nightlife scene...time for creative entrepreneurship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickfarang Posted February 2, 2006 Report Share Posted February 2, 2006 "I went there Dec '94 so it was still open then, anyone remember touch bar? " Yes, I remember Touch Bar from about '96. It seemed nice for a Patpong bar, but on my next visit to Thailand, it was gone. Can it be that the increase in the number of shufflers is somehow related to the decrease in the availability of illegal stimulants? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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