Thailand over the years

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Suadum-

 

From your post I get the impression you are at least of voting age.....remember Farang Connection?

 

Lots and lots of good memories there.

 

After Wayne died I slowed down the amount of time spent there but it was always my favorite in Nana.

 

I used to spend a lot of time in Nana a long, long time ago.

 

Detest it now as well......

[Flashermac]

Himitsu...I might be wrong, but I think Tilac was (until '86) ONE-THIRD it's present size. That is, I think it went from one shop to a 3-shop layout about then. Suzi Wong and Darling were the first "double" bars there. Lots of "hole-in-the-wall" joints.

 

 

 

You are probably right. Cowboy used to be an assortment of smaller bars. It was in the mid '80s that the owners started buying up neighbouring bars and ripping the walls out to make big bars.

 

That's about the time the expats started drifting over to Cowboy, since it cost about 1/3d less than Patpong. Nana Plaza at the time didn't amount to much yet, so Cowboy was the alternative.

 

p.s. Remember the Honey bar or whatever it was called? Had the fattest women in the world dancing! We used to take a newbie in there -- and pay the biggest dancer available to strip and bounce on his lap!

 

 

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[Flashermac]

BuffHello said:

anyone know about the bars that were said to be totally outrageous

down by the docks at Klong Toey many years ago?

female boxing ,dire porn shows ,all very repellant stuff from what i heard from old sea dogs .

 

 

 

Back in the mid '70s, I had a friend who used to go to those Klong Toey bars because they were very cheap. But he was always coming down with diseases too! The clap, NSU and who knows what all. (Nobody wore a condom back then, since not even Herpes had been heard of.) I stayed away from them myself.

 

Odd thing about that Oz gal who did Trink's "unauthorised biography". Apparently, she was a lesbian and after finishing the book and seeing it published ... she and her Thai female lover committed suicide together. Wonder why on earth why.

 

See if you can find a copy of a long out of print book called "Bangkok After Dark". It was part of a series of books about cities around the world. It dates to around 1968-69, but was still useful to us as sort of a Horny Planet Guide in the mid '70s. The guy ran out of things to say and padded the last part of the book with some questionable tales, but other than that it is a fun read. Unfortunately, someone borrowed my copy and never returned it.

[Guest]

 

I think the 2 lesbians had been slipped somw arsenic. Wayne, too, of Farang Connection, now that I think of it. Could be no other explanation.

[Guest]

To go back to Bangkok nitelife of the 1950s, there is a out of print book by a Brit, Jack Reynolds. "A woman of Bangkok" May be available in the used books section of Amazon or Borders.

 

Pre gogo as dance halls were the meeting places of the time. Ah, the Bolero Dance Hall and The Champagne Bucket. The main character, Vilai, the White Leopard of the Bolero Dance Hall was very beautiful... and very expensive. She was, too, a liar, greedy, ruthless and crass - but men could not resist her. The more things change, the more they stay the same. ::

 

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See if you can find a copy of a long out of print book called "Bangkok After Dark". It was part of a series of books about cities around the world. It dates to around 1968-69, but was still useful to us as sort of a Horny Planet Guide in the mid '70s. The guy ran out of things to say and padded the last part of the book with some questionable tales, but other than that it is a fun read. Unfortunately, someone borrowed my copy and never returned it."

[Oldtimer]

How about the late 60's anyone? Them were the days.

 

Taxi was 10 baht anywhere across the whole of BKK and yes, just about the only place for go-go was the Pong; although there were a number of big massage palaces being built elsewhere in that era.

 

And where did one end up at the end of the evening: the Grace Hotel coffee Shop...of course. It was a wild West type of place in those days...no Arabs to be seen (thank the Lord).

 

BKK is indeed still a decent town for the night life. You will see me out in the Pong, Soi 33, and Q Bar occasionally these days..and even Hollywood disco...but its a bit of a bore compared to the good old days. Now I may more likely be spotted at some jazz or blues pub...holding a lassie 40 to 50 years my junior. Horror of horrors.

 

Old soi dogs never die...we just fade away.

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An Aussie dykel writing a book on Trink! Blasphemy!

 

Cowboy did used to be much smaller bars. Tilac was the best managed of all of them so I guess it is logical that they expanded more than the others.

 

For the ultiamte Pong trivia test.....who ate at the Boat that now is Cleopatra and several other bars?

 

I respect any man that remembers BKK four decades prior to the rest of us.

 

With a woman forty to fifty years younger you have my profound respect and admiration!

 

I hope that I am doing exactly the same thing when I am your age.

[Hugh_Hoy]

I seem to remember that New Petchburi Road (from Asoke going East) was quite full of bars and MP's)

 

HH

[limbo]

Guys,

 

Thnaks for sharing your memories, I'm enjoying this thread a lot!

Please keep it coming.

[Hugh_Hoy]

limbo said:

Guys,

 

Thnaks for sharing your memories, I'm enjoying this thread a lot!

Please keep it coming.

 

Pale Rider and Oldtimer could probably tell more about the 60's, but you have to understand that (with age) they're losing their "short term" memories.

 

Here's one for the guys who complain about the closing of bars at 1 a.m. and "cheap charlies" who don't pay barfines after the bars close (or in the last 30 minutes before they close). In the mid-80's, at SC, the bars closed at 1 a.m. Then, about 1990, they were "authorized" to operate until 2 a.m. The girls didn't like it. Also, no barfines were collected if a girl went with you after midnight. Perfect for both salesgirl and the customer.

 

Don't know what the situation was at the Pong in that regard, cuz I'd start out early there and end up at SC. (Like another said, NEP wasn't really that much of an attraction in the mid 80's and I skipped it then.) The Pong featured "full sex" shows in bars upstairs...and I'm not talking about rip-off joints. Normal prices for drinks and no cover. And I'm not talking darts and ping pong balls and razor blades (although those "acts" were interspersed with the usual go-go sets). I'm talking full, bare-assed woman/man sucking and fucking on a stage 5 feet from a counter bar (just like in any porno movie). I sometimes saw small groups of farang flight attendants on layover in there...maybe comparing technique?

 

HH