Sukhumvit Road: A Brief history of Bangkok, Thailand - Part 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.ย. 2024
- With 'Bangkok Pat'. Sukhumvit Road: Let's look back. The future is uncertain, we can't look forward, so let's look back for 10 minutes. Nana to Asok is probably the most famous part of Sukhumvit Road, and it's changed a lot in the last few decades. From it's beginnings 50yrs ago and the history of its name, we look at how it's changed, the streets, the traffic, the skytrain, the buildings, the nightlife, as well as a few headlines and urban legends.
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The historical contribution of this fun yet informative episode is immense! Bangkok Pat is a star on the rise.
This is the best story that the Thaiger has given us. Thanks for sharing to us all that was around during these good old times in Bangkok. Hoping to see another story again, and I have to say again thank you very much for sharing.
Thank you for a very informative and well-made video about Sukhumvit.
So interesting. So informative. I had the feeling of something that was well researched and professionally presented. Thank you
Fantastic video. This is what we need. A bit more of the good old days. Well done Team.
@@sontayatoemsook1266 ok. Understand. Enjoyable viewing though. Thanks.
very interesting! more!
Really enjoyed that. Heartbreaking to see how quiet it is at the moment.
Yet another interesting video. It's fascinating to those of us who have some familiarity with Sukhumvit. You present well, you write well. Thanks Pat
His vids are the best! Interesting, great reflections and merges of past and present.
great to see Bangkok Pat on your channel, for me the best You Tuber for Thailand..
Thanks Pat. 1987 was my first time to Thailand. Fantastic memories my friend.
Pat has the right level of sarcasm, not too much, but just enough to be worthy of the Thaiger.
He presents a lot better on his own than the live interviews
I was a little confused seeing Bangkok Pat @The Thaiger at first. As I am a member of the channel of Bangkok Pat for a while already. I do thing his documentary like vlogs are an excellent addition to The Thaiger. Well Done!
Agree 100%
Thanks Pat! What an interesting episode! Cheers!!
I've watched all Bangkok Pats vlogs and there isn't a bad one among them he knocks out some real quality vlogs . pleased your channel is starting to get the recognition that it deserves Pat.
That was Awesome Thaiger
This person should do more clips for the thaiger
Thank you for the beautiful video that reminded me good old days when I first visited Bangkok in 1987. I just hope that Bangkok, or any other City around the world doesn't lose it's signature completely because it's originality makes it unique and connected to it's tradition.
I am a recent newcomer to Bangkok Pat's vlog. A channel well worth checking out.
Professionally done. Good job Bangkok Pat and Thaiger..,,
It’s great to see the old and new parts of Bangkok
A History lesson I will not forget
Thanks for the great informative vlog , I've lived in sukhumvit area during my study and work a couple of times , however,didn't know these vibes..
Really enjoyed this 👍👍
Wow the music to this mini documentary is funky groovy and I love it!
I'm really glad Pat's talent for documenting and showing off every bit of Bangkok most others can't or don't is getting shown to a wider audience. If you like this sort of stuff I recommend Pat's channel "Bangkok Pat". It's filled with amazing gems just like this video but with not enough views
Great video, wouldn’t mind an even longer clip.
Nice to watch. First time I visited Bangkok I stayed at Windsor hotel at Soi 20, Sukhumwit road. I still have pictures from Sukhumwit and the rest of Bangkok as I liived in Bangkok a couple of years in the beginning of the 80's. Very different city at that time.
What a great documentary, very informative and well put together! I loved the urban legends, I will look forward to seeing the next one!
Very enjoyable - and well done...will keep an eye open for more like this. THANKS
well done, look forward to your next one.
Melanconic Bangkok 🍏 good luck with the reopening
My friend, whose family compound is on soi 8, told me there was rice paddy all the way to Sukhumvit when he was a schoolboy. He is very wealthy now because of increased land values.
I studied at a girl school in Soi 22 from 1994-1999, sometimes walked to Time square building or Robinson (before Emporium opened around 1996?)
Great souvenir vids... As I came first time to BKK in 1993! Nice memories, in those years I used the public buses & knew the network better than in my home town... 😉🙏
So glad Pat's awesome is reaching a wider audience
Cheers
Oh to have a time machine. Take me back to 87'!
hope to see more like this
I remember when the lower Sukhumvit Road area was quite different than today. As seen in some of the clips in this video, there was no sky train. Some of the places I stayed at were the Miami Hotel and the Atlanta Hotel. But my favorite haunt was The Mermaid's Rest on Soi 8 just a short way off Sukhumvit Road. The Mermaid's Rest was like a quiet oasis with very friendly staff. It was located where Monsoon's is now. By the early 1990's, smog was thick in Bangkok, and quite noticeable in the Sukhumvit Road area. At various points along Sukhumvit there were foot bridges crossing the road. Traffic was pretty thick most of the time, so it was risky to cross the road on foot at most intersections. All in all, it was an enjoyable area.
Very good video I like history keep em coming thanks
thats a great work! thanks to thaiger bringing up
Give us more history episodes like these. fascinating stuff.
You guys might not believe what I am about to say. I was there at this time, it was about 1968, 69. Again I will say thanks for sharing.
That brought back memories. The SkyTrain drastically changed the character of the road. If they had been able to wait another decade they would have been able to build a subway instead.
Please more content like this. Much better than your news contents.
I grew up round these places I touched down in Bangkok Thailand 🇹🇭 in 1999 big changes wow if I look back in the video of 1987 to 1996 to the year I hit the sois as kid growing up wow good old day great memories God bless Thailand 🇹🇭❤️❤️❤️
Interesting and educational!
Looking forward to your next documentary,..
Very informative.
I enjoyed this :) Thanks
Thanks for this great history. I visited there in the 1970’s during the war. Being only 19, I had an awesome time with some hot young ladies in Patpong. I took no photos. But I still have some “wet dreams/flashbacks” that involve my memories of that exciting time in my youth. Thankfully, no hangovers! There is only one Bangkok in the World. I don’t think the World could handle more than one! Lol!
Brilliant video ...thank you ...
Great insight into the past
Memories
Great video and very interesting 👍
first time i didnt here the word corona or covid in a thaiger episode !! so refreshing
Pat on Thaiger! Well Done!
Excellent contribution, Pat.
I like that video
Fascinating historical view. Thanks for the brief photo of the Seafood Market at the Asoke intersection. Had great meals there in the 80s and when I went back in the 90s.....gone. I wondered if I had imagined it........
Wow! I was surprised to see that giant Country Road bar at 5:21. It is now tucked into Soi Cowboy. Country Road was the first nightlife venue I went to on my first night in Thailand.
loved it, we want more
More of this please...
Well done 👍 the content was excellent, informative with a good historical context added, love that there are a few Chinese shops holding out, grandsons will enjoy the windfalls of the older generations
Very professional presented and informative
Entertaining and educational, keep them coming.
In 79 Sukmibit Rd was two way , three lanes either way, in early 80s a Police General converted to five lanes in and one bus lane out of town. This lasted a year or so then we got the 4 in and 2 out which lasted until the Skytrain was built down the Centre .
John
Excellent transitional music at 4:54 “Elevator Lines” that perfectly matches the flow of stellar visual content!
Bangkok Pat always uses interesting pieces of music and if you love music related puns you will enjoy his videos :-)
@@padgaprao2617 Yes indeed. Pat really knows his music. He was a DJ back in the day in Bangkok.
You should do a video on Soi Cowboy and the history of the first bar and of course Pat Pong. ;)
Patpong video is getting done this month, still researching and organising couple of guests, it'll be in the same style as the 'Five Decades of Nana' video
Cheap Charlies and Suk 11 Hostel. Best Memories!
❤ From Canada
Stayed at suk 11 from 1993-2000, regular at cheap charly but no mention of the old thermae as an important spot? Suk square wasn't ir named as clinton plaza?
Suk 11 in 2006. The Best. Cheap Charlies up the lane, what memories eh!
Interesting!
Great to hear and see the history lesson. As an expat I lived at the end of Soi 11 near the Kong. That was the turn of this century and lots has changed with the pandemic.
Great and interesting video by Bangkok Pat. Thank you for this. The Rat at 8:00 is defintley a job for one of your cats in the other videos ;)
Thanks very informative. A warning though some of what you see late night on lower Sukhumvit can never be unseen
Wow, it sure has changed a lot over the years to a beautiful center now.
Like this video 🙏🇩🇰
well done, enjoyed that, can go a bit deeper into the background for me, but im a history buff, maybe not everyone wants it..
I can remember when it was all fields 😜 Anyhow, fascinating stuff Bangkok Pat - great work. Hopefully see more of your work here 👍
Nice informative video.
For future videos of this nature I would suggest to improve the introduction and add a conclusion section - which was missing.
It would have been nice for The Thaiger team to have added a post conclusion section which could have stated, "Ladies and Gentlemen, the next segment of Bangkok Pat will be about bla blah bla next week....." To give a sense of continuity, as the way that this video concluded it leaves the viewer wondering if it was truncated accidentally by TH-cam.
Anyway, thanks for this new initiative :>))
Love your videos!
i remember i was staying in a hotel on Sukhumvit Road opposite off all the bars that got knocked down, on January 26 2003, all the noise woke me up, banging, screaming, heavy machinery knocking everything down, it was a right mess, everything just flattend in a couple of hours.
What a fascinating video. More please. Would love to see similar pieces on Patpong and Pattaya. And I miss Cheap Charlie’s.
I will never forget one of the signs at Cheap Charlies - Arrow pointing the way to the toilet which read, Pee Only! One of my craziest and funniest bathroom visits was the 1st time I used the washroom at CC.. Also remember the New York Times article, about Cheap Charlie's posted on his bar.
Excellent Documentary. Thanks
Does even look like BKK that I used to know. No traffic and less shops very very few ppl. Hope everything back to normal soon.
That's how it looked when I first visited in 1985, cheap as hell then too!
Well done
May first Vist Bangkok Hotel Immpala soi?31, Rex, Golden Palace soi 1 sukhumvit Detz.1980
Didn't Bangkok Pat post on the Teak Door forum?
Well done The Thaiger: informative series. Looking forward to seeing some insightful stories about Charoen Nakhon, Charoen Krung and Rama III roads, maybe even Bang Krachao - I am somewhat confident it holds some mysteries. Keep it up Bangkok Pat!
Edit: Bangkok Pat Channel - Subscribed.
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Stayed on Soi 11 long time ago and was always curious about it’s history. To see how much it’s changed and to think of not just where it’s and everything else is going is amazing. Time moves on…
Pat , can you push the live stream to after man u vs Everton is finished. Being an Everton fan maybe missing the second maybe a good thing 🇹🇭🤟🏴
This was fantastic. So much history to learn.
Great show. Keep it up!
My first of twelve trips to Thailand was way back in 1993 just prior to the construction of the BTS. I vividly remember the construction of the BTS columns down Sukhumvit during my second trip in December of 1995. It is important to note and remember that most vehicles back then were still using leaded gasoline which created plumes of thick smoke! A couple of your historical video clips captures this! Those days of leaded gasoline were extremely intense and the smell was strong. Back in the day, I believe that I’ve visited just about every venue shown and talked about in this episode. What a fantastic trip down memory lane!
I remember Sukhumvit Rd when my family 1st vacationed there in the 80s. It seems like another planet now. Your right, the exhaust smell is something that stays with you your whole life. But it was the coolest place to a preteen boy. 😊
Same here. Stayed in Soi 21. I remember the Emporium being built
@@CH-jd8km That’s a great area of Bangkok. My family and I stayed at the Emporium Suites Hotel back in 2017 which is close to the mall.
@@rsvpurgt It definitely was and still is a cool place. I was nineteen when I first visited Thailand back in January of 1993. I can still remember the excitement of being there for the first time. I was visiting my father who was there on business. He has traveled to Thailand approximately 40 times between the years of 1979 - 2015.
Let us not forget the plumes of black smoke coming from all the public buses and 10-wheel trucks burning diesel fuel before the conversion to compressed natural gas, part of my memories of BKK in the late 70's and 80's.
Great, really enjoyed the blast from the past!
I loved the images from 1986, my first time in Thailand/Bangkok. Stayed at the Landmark. Fabulous!
Thanks for the memories. I was one of those GIs that visitted and fell in love with Thailand. Probably the only things that haven't changed are the rain, the scammers, and the warmth of the Thai people. Khapun Khap
He’s a good presenter., the eurasian guy at the start of the video….
He’s half thai
Bravo👍👏👏👏👏🏆
Loved this video. I stayed at the Miami several times back in 1982. Great memories! Thank you!
Very enjoyable. Thank you.