Pat, you have made my day. I visited Thailand in 1972 , aged 20, and stayed at Miami Hotel. Blown away by the experience, I returned 3 mths later, with a mate, who married a Thai. Pictures of the Grace Hotel brought back memories of an attempted hold up in front of the hotel.In those days a girl cost A$2.50 for long time. Eventually I will upload my (blurred) videos from those days. I support all the comments re the quality and value of your wonderful videos. Thankyou again.
Glad to hear that you have good memories going back 50yrs! Miami hotel retained the old original interior and calls itself a retro hotel!! Totally different place now of course.
@@BangkokPat Thanks for yr reply , Pat. At 71, I am returning to Bangkok/thailand to revisit some places in Oct, one being the Miami Hotel,. among many others. Still has the same pool design, 50 yrs later.
@@DarkoFitCoach hi. Will be posting videos of my trip, after 50yrs, (have visited many times over 50yrs). Hope you can find them amongst the thousands of videos on youtube .
What a pity that I can give you only ONE thumbs up for this video, by my opinion it deserves at least TEN thumbs up for the phantastic content as well as for the quality of the making. I have been only a few times in Thailand, only once at Nana Plaza, luckily during the "good" old days which now are past tense, unlikely to repeat in the near future. Thanks again!
Thanks David, Bangkok had more character and vibes 20yrs ago, I often wonder how I'd feel if I was a first time visitor in 2019. A lot has been lost along the way, but at least we can look back! Cheers!
@@BangkokPat Man, I rode an old Honda Goldwing from Bangkok to top of Thailand, down the bottom and left Bangkok 2 months later. 1986. 24 years old. Full head of hair. Lol. Stayed in villages. No one could speak English but maybe one person who could translate. As long as i could pay for the cheap booze and the odd pig, sweet. Golden times. No phones. Internet.
@@mikeodonovan9299 Sounds fabulous, and you're obviously a good rider if you were biking hungover on those wild roads. My dad hitchiked asia in the late 60s, said the language barrier was no problem as getting drunk, eating and meeting women needed no real conversation skills.
The days of 2000-2003 were epic nights out along that stretch of Sukhumvit, you couldn't beat that area for a bargain night out with so much choice of places to stop and have a cold one with your fellow bar hoppers (It was a lot friendlier back then too)
@@BangkokPat I remember those nights well. The sights, smells, and activity along the stretch were wonderful. I really miss the street vendors and food carts that were everywhere at the time.
Nice to reminisce about the old places. I know one thing about my 58 years on this earth is that the few days I have sat at soi 7 Beirgarden in the afternoon sipping a Beer or on the rail at Big Dogs watching the world go by have happy blissful memories to them.
Soi 7 used to be hactic and a fun place to sit and watch the world go by, the diverse couples eating in the food court across the street and the tourists, all drinking themselves silly in the early evening. Then a quick walk through the tunnel to Foodland for a feed.. Memories of 2003/4..
My home base in Bangkok is Soi 8 at Nana. This video is much appreciated, all the hours spent giving the areas history the attention it deserves. There is a reason Bangkok is at the top of the list of world cities visited.....it is very, very unique....and worthy.....
I enjoyed this the 1st 2nd and now 3rd time Pat. Where you opened the vlog outside the Landmark Hotel makes me miss BKK so much 🥺 . 2 years now !!!!!! I always go to the huntsman bar under it. Great food ice cold beer and the singers are great. Your channel has grown so much and well deserved with all the effort you put into them. Keep em coming Pat stay safe
Thanks Jimmy, while shooting this I sat outside enjoying the 1 for 1 happy hour drinks there. I'm not a drinker any more so would ask for ice which wasn't free and I'd end up consuming twice as much liquid. Sad how it's gone way down the pan the last 12 months.
@@BangkokPat happy hour 🍻 ahh good times !! Use to order for more for when happy hour ended. The ice 🧊 cost is insane !!!!!! . It did get very humid outside. So they know you have to have it 😰😰😰 That’s a shame it’s not the same now . It’s been so tough hopefully 🙏 things will come good again. I wonder will BKK or anywhere in the world will be the same again. Take care Pat.
@@BangkokPat hey, that "government" has run the whole country down hill. Them and the elite who consistently ignore and abuse the populace. They'll never see 40 million tourists a year again. They blew it...BIG TIME. This makes vids like this all that much more important, pushing them into the history of lost places category if you ask me. Macchu Picchu, Angkor Wat, NANA !!!! :)
Thank you for bringing back my memories of Bangkok. I first visited in 73 as a 21 year old and I delighted in seeing the Atlanta Hotel, the Grace Hotel and the coffee shop, plus the Thermae Cafe, all frequent hangouts over the years and unforgettable moments lived there. Bangkok is one of the most exciting cities of the world. Much has changed, but the essence of what makes Bangkok, it's nightlife, the bars, the markets and the whole scene haven't changed all that much. That is until Covid took over, but I have not experienced this side of travelling in Asia yet. Let's just hope things will change for the better again very soon. I am feeling sorry for people in Bangkok suffering from the side-effects of the pandemic and the political upheaval taking place. Thx again for the great video.
Thanks very much and sorry for late response, you would have definitely seen another completely different side of the city back then! The character that attracted people has slowly slipped away with all the modernisation and shift of tourism demographic, government thinks that shopping malls and glossy modern stuff will attract tourists!! Hopefully things can get back to the way it was before this all started in early 2020
LOL...the Atlanta Hotel has to be one of the unfriendliest places I have ever been. They have a very good restaurant, though. The Thermae is like something from another world. I found out it was run by the police. Didn't make me feel any safer, though.
Grace Hotel coffee shop. First visited in 1980, then 1983 and finally 1989. Once visited never forgotten. The Atlanta Hotel, cheap but scruffy (never changed the sheets, never a shower head in the bathroom, nil maintenance carried out) but good restaurant. Thermae, the bar scene in Star Wars had nothing on this place.
Kop khun kop, I'm in Ban Chang Rayong now..and the quality of this is outstanding....when I travel I always bring those Nana Hotel Soi 4 coat hangers with me happiest memories ...and they last forever!
I remember my wife & I staying in the Ambassador Hotel back in ‘93 and walked down Sukumvit which had no skytrain at the time, empty lots, and ugly neglected 1960-ish 4-5 story buildings . I returned 2004 and the place was unrecognizable. I enjoyed those old photos and film clips of the area.
This is definitely the most underrated channel for introduction of interesting places in Bkk. It's pact with well research info .I really love all the episodes..
In about a dozen visits over the years I've never felt like I understood Bangkok. Too big, and seemingly chaotic. Thanks to the video I feel like I have a little more insight. And love the historical stuff. My first visit to the city was in '88 and loved it then. Unfortunately they seem to be remaking Bangkok into a pale imitation of Singapore. It's a shame to see the old city - narrow sois, street vendors, etc - gradually disappearing.
I agree with you Andrew, Bangkok can seem like a jungle, and it is a jungle unless you're a city kind of person. They are trying to make Bangkok look modern, with all the buildings and gloss, but at its heart it'll be 3rd world as long as the infrastructure and poverty still exists, the new buildings just hide it more.
It's funny you say that. The first time I went to Bangkok, with a few mates, was awesome. We stopped over for a day in Singapore on the way back to Australia. I remember feeling how sterile and boring Singapore felt in comparison.
@@williamcrossan9333 my first visit to Singapore was in 1982/3. Still had some interesting atmosphere, great cheap Arabic food ,now all gone. My first encounter with Bangkok was in 1985. Awesome!!
Fantastic, takes me right back to 2001 when I first arrived.still in my 30s the memories, this vid made me smile and cry at the same time. Oh to revisit those wonderful times. Thanks.
Great video, brought back lots of memories of trips to Bangkok in the 80s & 90s. The Nana Hotel was a great place to stay and the disco was oh, so convenient!
Thanks, a great video. My first visit to Bangkok was February 1971: stayed in the New Nana. I have visited Bangkok many times over the years. My Thai wife and I have lived in Pattaya for nearly twenty years. We love Thailand. Thank you , keep up the good work….
Rainbow 4. Also got to stay 1 night in the Nana Hotel prior to closing. Use to stay in the Majestic Hotel right around the corner from Nana. Good Memories!
The first Bar I believe was Woodstock opened in 1983 owned by Peter and Kevin an American and Australian! I used to drink there when it first opened! Woodstock had by far the best music and great girls! I can't remember the other Bars mentioned in this Video being open at that time!
Thank You. Very good video. I left BKK just when covid started last time and head back there soon. I was first time there 2016, but feel the heyday was before internet age 90s and early 00s in Nana scene. I was too young to experience it then, but my father friends did. It is still one of my favorite cities. Cant wait to go there again next month
Thank you for uploading this again, I first started coming to Thailand in 1988 mostly staying at the City Lodge Hotel, the wonderful memories you brought back, also a couple of places you missed, which were renowned in BKK alas no more, was Washington Square bar beers, just like Sukhumvit Square and which also met a very similar end, and of course just up from Nana the famous Jools bar-restaurant some amazing nights to be had there, both definitely worth a mention.
Thanks a lot Mick, City Lodge has been an institution for years, I think there's 3 of them along there. Now I see they're flogging rooms by the month. Obviously top location! I have done a video on Washington Square....
Brings it all back. I first went there in 1979 and stayed at Rajah Hotel. Spent every night in Grace coffee shop, and Nana Hotel nightclub. Has anyone got any memories of these, or pictures or film? What was the Nana Club called? And their little coffee shop where I well remember meeting my first Thai girl. Help me remember it.
Wow Pat, absolutely awesome vid! Brought back many happy memories. Life was so much less complicated 30, 40 years ago! Bangkok was so vibrant, exciting and seemed, in a sense, to be experimenting with its developing entertainment and cultural identity. Just for a minute I got a sniff of that again! Thanks for making the effort in what must have been a real mission putting this together.
Fascinating! Thanks for posting this video. The way you present the material is also interesting and entertaining, and although these communities are changing, the historical record is absolutely fascinating. I hope we get to visit before we see another wave of change. Your videos remind us what a captivating place Bangkok (Krun Thep) and Thailand is. I look forward to more!
Thanks for the kind words mate. When there's not much to look forward to any more (even without the current problems) it's often better to just look back. Sukhumvit is beeing sterilised and the old haunts glossed over with commercial developments. Character and chaos that made it all gone!
I love it bring back the old Memory back again. Those Days are gone even I wasn't here in Bangkok that much. 1969/ 1970 I was worked at the airford based until I left Thailand.
You are amazing. Nobody ever make any video explains anything in detail like you. Thank you so much. I hope some old corner in Bangkok will be keep as part of BKK history. I hate walking into big club just to get a drink.
Cheers Craig, everyone's had at least one night of mayhem in Nana, whether it ended well or not. Shame it's a bit different now, but the best days were well behind it before all this viral stuff.
Absolutely fabulous, the memories came flooding back, sweet memories of a time more vibrant, adventurous and open, unsecured, unlike the world being constructed for us today, all in the name of keeping us safe.
Thanks Bruce, I'd say your summing up there is spot on mate, when it gets tiresome there's no escape from reality, no little worlds around Bangkok to disappear into, they're all getting demolished in the name of progress
I've subscribed! That was a very entertaining and enlightening video, when I learned you are half-Thai, I really started paying attention to your work. Almost every soi has fun memories for me, I was late 90's and the noughties in my "youthful" 40s Finally, last year I bought an older (mid 80s) Condo on Soi 13, and now lower Soi 11 is a stagger away! Great effort mate, will watch like and comment on them all!
The area will always be known for the nightlife and multi-national cast of characters. They are building several glossy towers in the area that will change the face of it, so the memories we all have of the past should be cherished, I don't think there will be another era like it!
@@BangkokPat been here in Thailand for many years. Not much I haven’t seen. I do enjoy seeing you getting started in the transition to being here full time
Thanks! If you went back, you'd be pretty disappointed around Nana now. It's neither lively or fun. Areas have gone and the commercial developments to gentrify the area are well under way!
Wow very good historical video. Soi 11 has seen the most changes over 20 years living here. I used to be regular at Q Bar in Saigon when David opened it before leaving due to him doing too well. Then Q Bar in BKK was born. He is now at Smalls serving up great cocktails. Nana may be coming to an end so you might have to add that on in a few years time.
Thanks, I agree with you Sukhumvit 11 was where the proper clubbers went to in Nana, and Q Bar took the lead. Nana is coming to an end at the rate its going, only Soi 4 will be left over soon, Soi 7 will be forced out when the brand new commercial complex is finished on the corner, and Soi Arab is on its last legs with no customers.
Thanks Tim, there's everything in this video except bar girls almost. There are plenty of channels showing the sleaze, and they get hundreds of thousands of views!! And I thought this could easily get a new audience that YT failed to show it to first time because I had low subs
Thanks Andy, that place was legendary for picking up a companion for the night, so I was told anyway. I was a DJ for about 6yrs in Bkk from 2002, definitely a more eclectic selection of music played than what I was used to back in London but a lot of fun, many stories to be told, as they say!
In November '82 I walked from the small Rainbow go go bar on Sukhomvit with the owner and some 'staff ' to look at Soi Cowboy. They were planning a move to what would become Nana Plaza.
Fabulous historic video, Thankyou Pat! I love your videos, after living here 15 years in Phuket Thailand your videos are the best education of modern Thailand and my favorite city in the world, Bangkok!
Thanks Tim, looking back is much preferable than looking forward at the moment, so I'm glad many have got round to seeing Nana in its heyday....probably never to be repeated!
I've never even been to Thailand but watch this stuff thinking - ah! the good old days! Pat, you make great videos, thanks and I hope to be in Bangkok maybe later this year!
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So depressing really, what a place Bangkok was, live in Chiang Mai now but miss the pre 2008 Bangkok beyond belief. Bangkok simply isn't Bangkok anymore, if used to be so raw and gritty, what a time it was!
I fully agree with you, it's more Blandcock nowadays and I'd say 2008 is about right, Bkk went off the boil after that and the condos and development accelerated to full speed, third world mentality thinks it's cool to look modern regardless of the reality. Bangkok can't keep papering over the cracks, if they're gonna modernize, then bring salaries, infrastructure and education along with it.
Stumbled on this and glad I did. Who remembers real elephants and their handlers walking along Sukhumvit for peddling for change? That was a shock to me let me tell you. The city has grown show much these days that its barely recognizable. Funny though...the girls who are employed in these bars don't seem to have aged at all. lol
Thanks man, glad you found it! I remember the elephants getting walked all over the place for money in exchange for sugar cane, sad sight that was outlawed finally. Bangkok is more like Blandcock nowadays, the character that attracted many in the old days all dried up. The government thinks foreigners wanna shop in big malls and are constantly building them, obliterating areas once more entertaining. In Nana on the corners of soi 6 and soi 7 opposite eachother are two commercial developments going up, and where Bullys was will soon be a flash overpriced fitness centre for the yuppies. The girls attitudes hardened as they became more fussy, which the internet and smartphones are to blame for. You're lucky if anyone even glances up at you as you walk in to some places. What a real shame. At least at our age we got memories!
We always stayed at the Dynasty Inn when we went to Nana. Haven't been to Nana since 2017 but plan on visiting there for a few days on my next trip to Thailand soon. Miss the atmosphere and all the pretty girls but I'm married and older now so I'm sure after a few days of the loud music and wall to wall drunk people, I will have had my fill and it's on the other places in Bangkok, Pattaya, or up north to hang out with the wife's family. Great video Pat!
Wow, what a great video and rekindling the memories of many wonderful times in my life. Started going to Thailand in 77 for diving in the Ko Similan Islands. Went back almost every year in April and November for diving. I had a great tailor on Sukumvit and Soi 11 for almost all my clothes. Usually stayed at the Landmark and spent the days at the pool and the nights at Nana and Soi Cowboy or Soi 33 then headed south to Pattaya for a few and then Phuket for a great diving base at the Amari. Not to mention the Green Mango on Ko Samui. If I could do it all over again , I would do the same. Love those LBFMs. Keep up the great work!
There's a phrase many would use for that life, which is ''living the dream'' especially in those days before modernisation took hold here in Bangkok. I didn't get to Pattaya until 2000 and it was still a bargain and good old fashioned fun night out. After about 2005 it changed quickly, crowded and the wrong type of tourists (I know it sounds selfish) who weren't in town for the same reasons as before and there was no rapport between guys in bars like years before.
Great video - thorough research and presentation. I was around there in my early 20s (1998-2010) and remember a lot of what you share with us. Thanks for refreshing my memories!
In November of 2019 I'd take the BTS or a taxi to Nana station on Sukhumvit Rd., walk Soi Alleyway 6 a few minutes to Sukhumvit 4, then a few minutes south to Nk Guesthouse. It all worked out great and had an amazing experience. Thanks for the great Nana history video!
Cheers Fred, Soi 6 was an ideal quieter route to avoid any unwanted stares/advances/past experiences catching up with you, and the other end of Soi 4 was a different world almost.
Thank you for this informative video. It may well be that you are the only person in Bangkok documenting it's history. And, you are preserving much historic footage, that might otherwise never be seen again.
Cheers Will, I set out to do a channel that nobody else was doing, and dig up a lot of lost footage. I often wonder how much other lost / unseen footage there is of these places.
Nana Hotel was always my first stop in Thailand back in the early 80s when I was a frequent visitor. Don't remember any bars being there at the time, but there was a great travel agent (Thailand Tourist Service) run by a British lady called Susan.
Just watched 2 of your vids mate. I've been going to bkk in and out..5555.. from 2000. This historic lesson of a by gone era is awesome. I'll be sharing it with all the boys I go to Thailand with. Loved it.
Thanks Warren, I think many have been in and out in Bangkok for many years, it's part of what gave the place its character, if you catch my drift. Thanks for sharing, and I do intend to cover Soi Cowboy but I can't really do much now as the place is closed, I wanted to try and talk with a couple of long term bar managers.
Champ!! I didn’t see the first upload. I’m glad you made a makeover. I loved the interview with Bob van Es. I actually bought a tripod because of you. You inspire me man 🙏🏼 Keep them coming 🤩🤩
Thanks mate, that's the thing, many recent subs haven't seen it! A good tripod is your friend!! Especially when I shoot I have to keep taking it down and setting it up.
@@BangkokPat haha yeah and you have to bring it along after you finished filming 😅 I forgot to put my tripod back in my backpack the 2nd time I’ve used it… lesson learned 🙈
Really impressed by the quality of production, for those of us unfamiliar with Bangkok, the google map link showing locations of all these points of interest is awesome! Thanks Pat
Thanks mate. Took me almost 6wks to do this, but I did have a good laugh doing it and they weren't full days, with days off between. A lot of nice people in Nana
Remember that area from the 80's when I first ventured over there,a lot of fun times and great memories came back to me watching this, and interesting history I never knew, thanx for the vid, 😀
Glad you liked this Ian, the place was more vibrant until the late 2000s. Would hate to be a newbie entering the scene for the first time after that....
Many thanks Maxwell, glad you've mentioned that because I can't, for the life of me, fathom out why those videos are as popular as they are, surely you can only have so many 'Bangkok during covid' videos showing the same old places
Glad i found this video. Abd glad to see your channel now get the attention it deserve. This was super intressting for us that has been in Bangkok for decades now.
The suitcase and bely shop next to the Police booth on the corner of Suk and Soi 4, has been there maybe about the same length as time as the Nana Hotel. I stayed there in 1970. Quite expensive at the time. Mainly American higher ranking officers on R&R from Vietnam. They had a good quality selection of ladies who worked the lobby and the bars and fantastic coffee shop on the ground floor. (From what I've been told).
The legendary Nana. Whatever you think of it, it has a real life with people living in it. It has undergone the change of time leaving behind living memories. Those of us who remember bits of it can't help feeling lucky that we are still around to be nostalgic about it 🙃
Yes it does indeed have a big human element to it, it's not just another 'bar area' where people come and just go. I found this out over the 5wks I shot this video, I met so many lovely people, business owners, characters and those who had been there for decades.
Great video Pat. Brought back memories from the 80 and 90s for me. It was great to see the old soi zero. I have a few stories from Nana. your videos on Bangkok are great real stories without the BS.
I remember Nana about 3 decades ago..... wonderful memories. And.... the Q Bar! Great to see you interviewed Andrew. I wonder if Christopher G Moore is still about in BKK. He would have been able to provide some highly interesting stories about the Thermae.
Thanks Sparkey, Glad you took a trip down memory lane, Andrew is a great guy who likes a chat, and Christopher G Moore is still around, and you're the first to know that we're going to be working on a show together.
Great Video of the Past and Present Bangkok. Thank you for sharing this Historical Video of Bangkok. I have so many great memories of Nana Plaza & Soi Cowboy. I now have a Beautiful Thai wife, Daughter and son here with me in America. Hope Thailand is able to recover from Pandemic soon. We Miss this Big City of Bangkok.
Thanks Chris, apologies for late response, comments are thick and fast on the channel nowadays, many memories of years gone by in those places, at a time when things were less serious and smartphone staring wasn't a thing. We lived a bit more without checking our phones!
Worked in Thailand in the late sixties as a tech rep. Stayed at the Nana Hotel in 1967 and at the Grace Hotel in 1968. Went back to Bangkok in 1980 and I stayed at the Federal Hotel. Lots of memories brought back by your video. You show some American military getting off a Pam American airplane. During the Vietnam war Pan American had a bunch of old DC-7 airliners. They would fly US military people on R&R leave anywhere they wanted to go from Vietnam including Bangkok, Hawaii, and I believe even Australia for only $75. They were the good guys. Sorry to see them go.
Nice to hear from you Vincent and apologies for the late response. That shot of the plane landing is from this video: th-cam.com/video/fUWHH6dKXr0/w-d-xo.html which is a video called 'R&R in Bangkok in the 1960s' by US Military Video. I tried going to the website to buy the full video to use but it's not possible any more!
Back in noughties when I was 19 I left home with a friend and flew to Bangkok for the first time, and also first flight. Step off the plane check in then nana was the first place we went to. Eye opening 😂 I miss the old sign it looked so much better.
I'll tell you why. I went to take a couple of photos of the outside and was told 'no photos' by the a guy outside (not security) it was closed at the time but what's the problem with photos?
I used to go to the Windsor Hotel but have lost track of exactly where it was. Everybody went "window shopping" late at night. I do remember being on Soi Cowboy and there was a bar owned by a Black GI who never went home. Exchange rate was 20THB = $1.00. My last time ther was April 1981 so my memory has faded. Thanks for posting.
Pat, you have made my day. I visited Thailand in 1972 , aged 20, and stayed at Miami Hotel. Blown away by the experience, I returned 3 mths later, with a mate, who married a Thai. Pictures of the Grace Hotel brought back memories of an attempted hold up in front of the hotel.In those days a girl cost A$2.50 for long time. Eventually I will upload my (blurred) videos from those days. I support all the comments re the quality and value of your wonderful videos. Thankyou again.
Glad to hear that you have good memories going back 50yrs! Miami hotel retained the old original interior and calls itself a retro hotel!! Totally different place now of course.
@@BangkokPat Thanks for yr reply , Pat. At 71, I am returning to Bangkok/thailand to revisit some places in Oct, one being the Miami Hotel,. among many others. Still has the same pool design, 50 yrs later.
@@stevemallibullhow was your trip to bkk after decades since your first visit. Its an amazing place bkk i LOVE it
@@DarkoFitCoach hi. Will be posting videos of my trip, after 50yrs, (have visited many times over 50yrs). Hope you can find them amongst the thousands of videos on youtube .
In that year I stayed in the Malaysia Hotel.
What a pity that I can give you only ONE thumbs up for this video, by my opinion it deserves at least TEN thumbs up for the phantastic content as well as for the quality of the making. I have been only a few times in Thailand, only once at Nana Plaza, luckily during the "good" old days which now are past tense, unlikely to repeat in the near future. Thanks again!
Thanks for the kind words, Nana will never be the same again like the 90s/00s even if it gets busy again next year,
The four floors of whores is still there no ?
@@BangkokPat its good stuff not click batey
Fantastic even
When I don't have anything to watch I rerun this video, great job.
My first visit to Bangkok was in 1976. Many happy memories brought to life by your video. I loved it. Thank you.
Thanks David, Bangkok had more character and vibes 20yrs ago, I often wonder how I'd feel if I was a first time visitor in 2019. A lot has been lost along the way, but at least we can look back!
Cheers!
@@BangkokPat Man, I rode an old Honda Goldwing from Bangkok to top of Thailand, down the bottom and left Bangkok 2 months later. 1986. 24 years old. Full head of hair. Lol. Stayed in villages. No one could speak English but maybe one person who could translate. As long as i could pay for the cheap booze and the odd pig, sweet. Golden times. No phones. Internet.
@@mikeodonovan9299 Sounds fabulous, and you're obviously a good rider if you were biking hungover on those wild roads. My dad hitchiked asia in the late 60s, said the language barrier was no problem as getting drunk, eating and meeting women needed no real conversation skills.
memories so very important than things that gets old.. out moded but happy memories remains forever
@@mikeodonovan9299 Iam Honda Magna V 4 1986 only 46000 Thb Im drof stret to Phuket .
Very nostalgic and makes me reminisce about years gone by.
The days of 2000-2003 were epic nights out along that stretch of Sukhumvit, you couldn't beat that area for a bargain night out with so much choice of places to stop and have a cold one with your fellow bar hoppers (It was a lot friendlier back then too)
@@BangkokPat I remember those nights well. The sights, smells, and activity along the stretch were wonderful. I really miss the street vendors and food carts that were everywhere at the time.
@@BangkokPat People were less likely to be clued to mobile phones then. Hence friendlier!
@@BangkokPat It was indeed a hell of a lot more friendly back then. What happened?
Nice to reminisce about the old places. I know one thing about my 58 years on this earth is that the few days I have sat at soi 7 Beirgarden in the afternoon sipping a Beer or on the rail at Big Dogs watching the world go by have happy blissful memories to them.
Soi 7 used to be hactic and a fun place to sit and watch the world go by, the diverse couples eating in the food court across the street and the tourists, all drinking themselves silly in the early evening. Then a quick walk through the tunnel to Foodland for a feed.. Memories of 2003/4..
My home base in Bangkok is Soi 8 at Nana. This video is much appreciated, all the hours spent giving the areas history the attention it deserves. There is a reason Bangkok is at the top of the list of world cities visited.....it is very, very unique....and worthy.....
Tremendous editing job! Just as entertaining the second time!
Thanks Michael, took long enough to do but very enjoyable, some very nice people in Nana who have businesses, made me feel welcome.
Took me 3hrs to watch this;))
I enjoyed this the 1st 2nd and now 3rd time Pat. Where you opened the vlog outside the Landmark Hotel makes me miss BKK so much 🥺 . 2 years now !!!!!! I always go to the huntsman bar under it. Great food ice cold beer and the singers are great. Your channel has grown so much and well deserved with all the effort you put into them. Keep em coming Pat stay safe
Thanks Jimmy, while shooting this I sat outside enjoying the 1 for 1 happy hour drinks there. I'm not a drinker any more so would ask for ice which wasn't free and I'd end up consuming twice as much liquid. Sad how it's gone way down the pan the last 12 months.
@@BangkokPat happy hour 🍻 ahh good times !! Use to order for more for when happy hour ended. The ice 🧊 cost is insane !!!!!! . It did get very humid outside. So they know you have to have it 😰😰😰 That’s a shame it’s not the same now . It’s been so tough hopefully 🙏 things will come good again. I wonder will BKK or anywhere in the world will be the same again. Take care Pat.
@@BangkokPat hey, that "government" has run the whole country down hill. Them and the elite who consistently ignore and abuse the populace. They'll never see 40 million tourists a year again. They blew it...BIG TIME. This makes vids like this all that much more important, pushing them into the history of lost places category if you ask me. Macchu Picchu, Angkor Wat, NANA !!!! :)
Thank you for bringing back my memories of Bangkok. I first visited in 73 as a 21 year old and I delighted in seeing the Atlanta Hotel, the Grace Hotel and the coffee shop, plus the Thermae Cafe, all frequent hangouts over the years and unforgettable moments lived there. Bangkok is one of the most exciting cities of the world. Much has changed, but the essence of what makes Bangkok, it's nightlife, the bars, the markets and the whole scene haven't changed all that much. That is until Covid took over, but I have not experienced this side of travelling in Asia yet. Let's just hope things will change for the better again very soon. I am feeling sorry for people in Bangkok suffering from the side-effects of the pandemic and the political upheaval taking place. Thx again for the great video.
Thanks very much and sorry for late response, you would have definitely seen another completely different side of the city back then! The character that attracted people has slowly slipped away with all the modernisation and shift of tourism demographic, government thinks that shopping malls and glossy modern stuff will attract tourists!! Hopefully things can get back to the way it was before this all started in early 2020
LOL...the Atlanta Hotel has to be one of the unfriendliest places I have ever been. They have a very good restaurant, though. The Thermae is like something from another world. I found out it was run by the police. Didn't make me feel any safer, though.
Grace Hotel coffee shop. First visited in 1980, then 1983 and finally 1989. Once visited never forgotten. The Atlanta Hotel, cheap but scruffy (never changed the sheets, never a shower head in the bathroom, nil maintenance carried out) but good restaurant. Thermae, the bar scene in Star Wars had nothing on this place.
Kop khun kop, I'm in Ban Chang Rayong now..and the quality of this is outstanding....when I travel I always bring those Nana Hotel Soi 4 coat hangers with me happiest memories ...and they last forever!
Hey, thanks!...A hotel with stealable coat hangers? That's rare, usually they're fixed to the rail! And you carry them everywhere you go!!
I remember my wife & I staying in the Ambassador Hotel back in ‘93 and walked down Sukumvit which had no skytrain at the time, empty lots, and ugly neglected 1960-ish 4-5 story buildings . I returned 2004 and the place was unrecognizable. I enjoyed those old photos and film clips of the area.
This is definitely the most underrated channel for introduction of interesting places in Bkk. It's pact with well research info .I really love all the episodes..
Thanks so much for your kind words, my videos take longer to make but it's worth it!
@@BangkokPat when you put enough effort in a video, audiences can tell the different between a well made production and a 'just another vlog'.
@@yiplekhong5111 I think most people want vlogs, but I'll always keep doing what I do.
Worth mentioning how resourceful you are gathering those historical shots and videos plus all the facts.
In about a dozen visits over the years I've never felt like I understood Bangkok. Too big, and seemingly chaotic. Thanks to the video I feel like I have a little more insight. And love the historical stuff.
My first visit to the city was in '88 and loved it then. Unfortunately they seem to be remaking Bangkok into a pale imitation of Singapore. It's a shame to see the old city - narrow sois, street vendors, etc - gradually disappearing.
I agree with you Andrew, Bangkok can seem like a jungle, and it is a jungle unless you're a city kind of person.
They are trying to make Bangkok look modern, with all the buildings and gloss, but at its heart it'll be 3rd world as long as the infrastructure and poverty still exists, the new buildings just hide it more.
It's funny you say that. The first time I went to Bangkok, with a few mates, was awesome. We stopped over for a day in Singapore on the way back to Australia. I remember feeling how sterile and boring Singapore felt in comparison.
@@williamcrossan9333 my first visit to Singapore was in 1982/3. Still had some interesting atmosphere, great cheap Arabic food ,now all gone. My first encounter with Bangkok was in 1985. Awesome!!
And Phnom pehn going Singapore way
@@tomaskral4685 Yep bkk in 85, Singapore 71 as a child. Loved it, totally different to country Western Australia.
Fantastic, takes me right back to 2001 when I first arrived.still in my 30s the memories, this vid made me smile and cry at the same time. Oh to revisit those wonderful times. Thanks.
Great video, brought back lots of memories of trips to Bangkok in the 80s & 90s. The Nana Hotel was a great place to stay and the disco was oh, so convenient!
Thanks mark, you had an all-in-one resort by the sound of it!
@@BangkokPat I had more stamina back then!
Thanks, a great video.
My first visit to Bangkok was February 1971: stayed in the New Nana. I have visited Bangkok many times over the years.
My Thai wife and I have lived in Pattaya for nearly twenty years. We love Thailand.
Thank you , keep up the good work….
Rainbow 4. Also got to stay 1 night in the Nana Hotel prior to closing. Use to stay in the Majestic Hotel right around the corner from Nana. Good Memories!
The first Bar I believe was Woodstock opened in 1983 owned by Peter and Kevin an American and Australian! I used to drink there when it first opened! Woodstock had by far the best music and great girls! I can't remember the other Bars mentioned in this Video being open at that time!
Thank You. Very good video. I left BKK just when covid started last time and head back there soon. I was first time there 2016, but feel the heyday was before internet age 90s and early 00s in Nana scene. I was too young to experience it then, but my father friends did. It is still one of my favorite cities. Cant wait to go there again next month
Thank you for uploading this again, I first started coming to Thailand in 1988 mostly staying at the City Lodge Hotel, the wonderful memories you brought back, also a couple of places you missed, which were renowned in BKK alas no more, was Washington Square bar beers, just like Sukhumvit Square and which also met a very similar end, and of course just up from Nana the famous Jools bar-restaurant some amazing nights to be had there, both definitely worth a mention.
Thanks a lot Mick, City Lodge has been an institution for years, I think there's 3 of them along there. Now I see they're flogging rooms by the month. Obviously top location! I have done a video on Washington Square....
I grew up in Bangkok 1979 - 1992. This has brought back so many memories.
Thank you for this upload. I will be sharing this with my family.
🙏😊🙏
Maybe the maker won't see this but this is one of the best videos ever made. Never delete.
Thanks for the kind words, appreciate it a lot. Pat
Brings it all back. I first went there in 1979 and stayed at Rajah Hotel. Spent every night in Grace coffee shop, and Nana Hotel nightclub. Has anyone got any memories of these, or pictures or film? What was the Nana Club called? And their little coffee shop where I well remember meeting my first Thai girl. Help me remember it.
Wow Pat, absolutely awesome vid! Brought back many happy memories. Life was so much less complicated 30, 40 years ago! Bangkok was so vibrant, exciting and seemed, in a sense, to be experimenting with its developing entertainment and cultural identity. Just for a minute I got a sniff of that again! Thanks for making the effort in what must have been a real mission putting this together.
Glad you enjoyed it Christopher, Bkk has not the same character today by a million miles!
Myyyy godddddd!!…..I’ve had some FANTASTIC and MAD times down there over the years!!!…..absolutely nowhere like it anywhere else in the WORLD!
Definitely the adult playground of its time, and is slowly shrinking due to gentrification!
@@BangkokPat that, or people wising up….
A very interesting history lesson, thanks for the reload.
Thanks Lars, my first long video, this took over 5wks!
Fascinating! Thanks for posting this video. The way you present the material is also interesting and entertaining, and although these communities are changing, the historical record is absolutely fascinating. I hope we get to visit before we see another wave of change. Your videos remind us what a captivating place Bangkok (Krun Thep) and Thailand is. I look forward to more!
Thanks for the kind words mate. When there's not much to look forward to any more (even without the current problems) it's often better to just look back. Sukhumvit is beeing sterilised and the old haunts glossed over with commercial developments. Character and chaos that made it all gone!
I love it bring back the old
Memory back again. Those
Days are gone even I wasn't here in Bangkok that much. 1969/ 1970
I was worked at the airford based until I left Thailand.
You are amazing. Nobody ever make any video explains anything in detail like you. Thank you so much. I hope some old corner in Bangkok will be keep as part of BKK history. I hate walking into big club just to get a drink.
Thanks, so much to look at in Nana, and so much to talk about!
What an amazing video. Who has not had an evening or three in Nana? Thanks for posting.
Cheers Craig, everyone's had at least one night of mayhem in Nana, whether it ended well or not. Shame it's a bit different now, but the best days were well behind it before all this viral stuff.
Great choice for a reupload, this is easily one of my favorites and I bet of many others.
Good stuff Pat!
Cheers, it needs a new audience I felt. TH-cam didn't promote it the first time at all because I had low sub numbers.
Absolutely fabulous, the memories came flooding back, sweet memories of a time more vibrant, adventurous and open, unsecured, unlike the world being constructed for us today, all in the name of keeping us safe.
Thanks Bruce, I'd say your summing up there is spot on mate, when it gets tiresome there's no escape from reality, no little worlds around Bangkok to disappear into, they're all getting demolished in the name of progress
I've subscribed! That was a very entertaining and enlightening video, when I learned you are half-Thai, I really started paying attention to your work. Almost every soi has fun memories for me, I was late 90's and the noughties in my "youthful" 40s Finally, last year I bought an older (mid 80s) Condo on Soi 13, and now lower Soi 11 is a stagger away! Great effort mate, will watch like and comment on them all!
Thanks very much and great to hear that! The older condos l found were always bigger and designed more imaginitivelty, more room to stagger around!
Thanks for time & effort... The memories!
The historical perspective is excellent. Great niche, so different to most youtubers.
Thanks Jason, I tried to do what everyone else didn't!
I've now watched a couple of times...great video. thanks
The area will always be known for the nightlife and multi-national cast of characters. They are building several glossy towers in the area that will change the face of it, so the memories we all have of the past should be cherished, I don't think there will be another era like it!
@@BangkokPat been here in Thailand for many years. Not much I haven’t seen. I do enjoy seeing you getting started in the transition to being here full time
Thanks for the informative video.. YOU MADE ME FEEL BETTER AS I RCALLED ALL OF THE NICE PLACES... GOD BLESS YOU... GOD HELP ME GO BACK...
Thanks! If you went back, you'd be pretty disappointed around Nana now. It's neither lively or fun. Areas have gone and the commercial developments to gentrify the area are well under way!
Bed Supper Club and Q bar. That was my era. Around 2010. What a vast and mysterious city. I was drawn to it after the first time i set foot
Wow very good historical video. Soi 11 has seen the most changes over 20 years living here. I used to be regular at Q Bar in Saigon when David opened it before leaving due to him doing too well.
Then Q Bar in BKK was born. He is now at Smalls serving up great cocktails.
Nana may be coming to an end so you might have to add that on in a few years time.
Thanks, I agree with you Sukhumvit 11 was where the proper clubbers went to in Nana, and Q Bar took the lead. Nana is coming to an end at the rate its going, only Soi 4 will be left over soon, Soi 7 will be forced out when the brand new commercial complex is finished on the corner, and Soi Arab is on its last legs with no customers.
Ministry of Sound was popular at one stage till the boys in brown took the hump
I'm really glad you reposted this. It's a great depiction of Bangkok history. Cheers to more views.
Thanks Pat, great footage , Woodstock bar Nana Plaza early 90s good way to start your evening,
Cheers William, hear a lot of good things about that place.
This was the first video of yours I found and made me a subscriber. So happy to find someone who is showing Thailand and not bar girls.
Thanks Tim, there's everything in this video except bar girls almost. There are plenty of channels showing the sleaze, and they get hundreds of thousands of views!! And I thought this could easily get a new audience that YT failed to show it to first time because I had low subs
I was a DJ at the Flamingo Disco at the Ambassador hotel 1983-1987, have many memories, nice video Pat
Thanks Andy, that place was legendary for picking up a companion for the night, so I was told anyway. I was a DJ for about 6yrs in Bkk from 2002, definitely a more eclectic selection of music played than what I was used to back in London but a lot of fun, many stories to be told, as they say!
In November '82 I walked from the small Rainbow go go bar on Sukhomvit with the owner and some 'staff ' to look at Soi Cowboy. They were planning a move to what would become Nana Plaza.
Oh dear!!! watching this video has brought back so many memories
Sorry to hear about the nostalgia you're feeling John!
Fabulous historic video, Thankyou Pat! I love your videos, after living here 15 years in Phuket Thailand your videos are the best education of modern Thailand and my favorite city in the world, Bangkok!
Thanks very much Brian.
Excellent video..thanks for making this....makes me feel very nostalgic for my time in Bangkok (16 years). Thanks again.
Thanks Tim, looking back is much preferable than looking forward at the moment, so I'm glad many have got round to seeing Nana in its heyday....probably never to be repeated!
I've never even been to Thailand but watch this stuff thinking - ah! the good old days! Pat, you make great videos, thanks and I hope to be in Bangkok maybe later this year!
Yet another remarkable clip.On my bucket list is a day out with you in Bangkok in the Indian district.Cheers
This is a great video. It reminded me of my trips to Bangkok. My Thailand days are over. I had the time of my life over there.
Really enjoyed this trip down memory lane
Having lived in the area for a few years it will always have a special place in my heart
Sorry for late response! Glad you enjoyed it mate, Nana used to be one hell of a night out.
@@BangkokPat I always had a saying and once a t-shirt with
Best nights out are always in Bangkok printed on it in thai 555
So exciting in the old days but it still draws you in
Another great one thank you, lovely memories, missing the old days and my time in Bangkok from 1991 to 2004..now in Khorat...
Thanks Pat. Love seeing these history stories on the Thaiger, and of course your own channel. Thanks!!
Thanks very much, it makes for a hectic filming schedule!
Chapters and locations on map are in description.👍 Pics taken during the shooting of video: www.flickr.com/photos/138595395@N02/albums/72177720295343211
Thanks for the video. Definitely feel like this should have been a series of videos. Almost 40 minutes is quite a long time.
I had the option at the time to make it 2 videos but shooting just went on and on, for almost 6wks so I just put it all together!
Cheers.
Great history indeed. You put significant effort into this video. Great job. Thank you.
So depressing really, what a place Bangkok was, live in Chiang Mai now but miss the pre 2008 Bangkok beyond belief. Bangkok simply isn't Bangkok anymore, if used to be so raw and gritty, what a time it was!
I fully agree with you, it's more Blandcock nowadays and I'd say 2008 is about right, Bkk went off the boil after that and the condos and development accelerated to full speed, third world mentality thinks it's cool to look modern regardless of the reality. Bangkok can't keep papering over the cracks, if they're gonna modernize, then bring salaries, infrastructure and education along with it.
Stumbled on this and glad I did. Who remembers real elephants and their handlers walking along Sukhumvit for peddling for change? That was a shock to me let me tell you. The city has grown show much these days that its barely recognizable. Funny though...the girls who are employed in these bars don't seem to have aged at all. lol
Thanks man, glad you found it! I remember the elephants getting walked all over the place for money in exchange for sugar cane, sad sight that was outlawed finally. Bangkok is more like Blandcock nowadays, the character that attracted many in the old days all dried up. The government thinks foreigners wanna shop in big malls and are constantly building them, obliterating areas once more entertaining. In Nana on the corners of soi 6 and soi 7 opposite eachother are two commercial developments going up, and where Bullys was will soon be a flash overpriced fitness centre for the yuppies. The girls attitudes hardened as they became more fussy, which the internet and smartphones are to blame for. You're lucky if anyone even glances up at you as you walk in to some places. What a real shame. At least at our age we got memories!
We always stayed at the Dynasty Inn when we went to Nana. Haven't been to Nana since 2017 but plan on visiting there for a few days on my next trip to Thailand soon. Miss the atmosphere and all the pretty girls but I'm married and older now so I'm sure after a few days of the loud music and wall to wall drunk people, I will have had my fill and it's on the other places in Bangkok, Pattaya, or up north to hang out with the wife's family. Great video Pat!
I love these videos. Thanks for some excellent content.
Wow, what a great video and rekindling the memories of many wonderful times in my life. Started going to Thailand in 77 for diving in the Ko Similan Islands. Went back almost every year in April and November for diving. I had a great tailor on Sukumvit and Soi 11 for almost all my clothes. Usually stayed at the Landmark and spent the days at the pool and the nights at Nana and Soi Cowboy or Soi 33 then headed south to Pattaya for a few and then Phuket for a great diving base at the Amari. Not to mention the Green Mango on Ko Samui. If I could do it all over again , I would do the same. Love those LBFMs. Keep up the great work!
There's a phrase many would use for that life, which is ''living the dream'' especially in those days before modernisation took hold here in Bangkok. I didn't get to Pattaya until 2000 and it was still a bargain and good old fashioned fun night out. After about 2005 it changed quickly, crowded and the wrong type of tourists (I know it sounds selfish) who weren't in town for the same reasons as before and there was no rapport between guys in bars like years before.
Great video I think I'm on my fourth time watching it a lot of really good detail
Great video - thorough research and presentation. I was around there in my early 20s (1998-2010) and remember a lot of what you share with us. Thanks for refreshing my memories!
So very well researched! Definitely one of the very best videos about this area.
Only one of the best? !!
@@BangkokPat LOL! You got me... the very best... so far.
In November of 2019 I'd take the BTS or a taxi to Nana station on Sukhumvit Rd., walk Soi Alleyway 6 a few minutes to Sukhumvit 4, then a few minutes south to Nk Guesthouse. It all worked out great and had an amazing experience. Thanks for the great Nana history video!
Cheers Fred, Soi 6 was an ideal quieter route to avoid any unwanted stares/advances/past experiences catching up with you, and the other end of Soi 4 was a different world almost.
never been to thailand but this is the first place i would like to visit. and spend money.
You'll have many places to spend your cash Dell, and will enjoy it!
Tremendous editing! Haven't seen any hard work like yours since the Beatles ! Thanks a lot!!!
Thanks very much, it took a month of hard days nights to edit all that!
@@BangkokPat thanks a lot for the hard work! unbelievable content here!
Thank you for this informative video. It may well be that you are the only person in Bangkok documenting it's history. And, you are preserving much historic footage, that might otherwise never be seen again.
Cheers Will, I set out to do a channel that nobody else was doing, and dig up a lot of lost footage. I often wonder how much other lost / unseen footage there is of these places.
Top shelf mate .always great videos
Nana Hotel was always my first stop in Thailand back in the early 80s when I was a frequent visitor. Don't remember any bars being there at the time, but there was a great travel agent (Thailand Tourist Service) run by a British lady called Susan.
Just watched 2 of your vids mate. I've been going to bkk in and out..5555.. from 2000. This historic lesson of a by gone era is awesome. I'll be sharing it with all the boys I go to Thailand with. Loved it.
Thanks Warren, I think many have been in and out in Bangkok for many years, it's part of what gave the place its character, if you catch my drift. Thanks for sharing, and I do intend to cover Soi Cowboy but I can't really do much now as the place is closed, I wanted to try and talk with a couple of long term bar managers.
Champ!! I didn’t see the first upload. I’m glad you made a makeover. I loved the interview with Bob van Es.
I actually bought a tripod because of you. You inspire me man 🙏🏼
Keep them coming 🤩🤩
Thanks mate, that's the thing, many recent subs haven't seen it!
A good tripod is your friend!! Especially when I shoot I have to keep taking it down and setting it up.
@@BangkokPat haha yeah and you have to bring it along after you finished filming 😅 I forgot to put my tripod back in my backpack the 2nd time I’ve used it… lesson learned 🙈
Really impressed by the quality of production, for those of us unfamiliar with Bangkok, the google map link showing locations of all these points of interest is awesome! Thanks Pat
Thanks mate. Took me almost 6wks to do this, but I did have a good laugh doing it and they weren't full days, with days off between. A lot of nice people in Nana
Remember that area from the 80's when I first ventured over there,a lot of fun times and great memories came back to me watching this, and interesting history I never knew, thanx for the vid, 😀
Glad you liked this Ian, the place was more vibrant until the late 2000s. Would hate to be a newbie entering the scene for the first time after that....
I urge anyone coming to Bangkok for the first time to watch this. I am only finding out a lot of what went down 20 yrs later :p
Great work Pat!
Superb videos - just catching up on the backlog, really excellent. Thank you
Glad you enjoy them Freddie, thanks!
Love your videos Pat. Keep up the fantastic work
Very interesting history and the place looks so gorgeous. Really enjoyed this video always learn something new
Thanks Alan, plenty of history and fun little things to find if you look a bit further!
Great channel Pat. I've been here in Bangkok for over 15 years and learn something new every time I watch. Well produced too, thanks!
Many thanks Maxwell, glad you've mentioned that because I can't, for the life of me, fathom out why those videos are as popular as they are, surely you can only have so many 'Bangkok during covid' videos showing the same old places
Glad i found this video. Abd glad to see your channel now get the attention it deserve. This was super intressting for us that has been in Bangkok for decades now.
Thanks! May do a couple of updates to it in a short Part 2!
The suitcase and bely shop next to the Police booth on the corner of Suk and Soi 4, has been there maybe about the same length as time as the Nana Hotel. I stayed there in 1970. Quite expensive at the time. Mainly American higher ranking officers on R&R from Vietnam. They had a good quality selection of ladies who worked the lobby and the bars and fantastic coffee shop on the ground floor. (From what I've been told).
Pat thank you!! I first visited Bangkok in 1987 and I am still visiting. Some great old footage.
Really glad I stumbled across this channel, super interesting! 😎🤟
My god!….Nana!…..had some MAD, WILD, SCARY, GREAT TIMES there……been there about 40 times……used to stay Soi 11
Hi Dave, cherish those memories mate, good times in Nana aren't gonna be possible like what you remember!
The legendary Nana. Whatever you think of it, it has a real life with people living in it. It has undergone the change of time leaving behind living memories. Those of us who remember bits of it can't help feeling lucky that we are still around to be nostalgic about it 🙃
Yes it does indeed have a big human element to it, it's not just another 'bar area' where people come and just go. I found this out over the 5wks I shot this video, I met so many lovely people, business owners, characters and those who had been there for decades.
Great video Pat. Brought back memories from the 80 and 90s for me. It was great to see the old soi zero. I have a few stories from Nana. your videos on Bangkok are great real stories without the BS.
Thanks for creating this video 👍🏻
Thank you very much Daniel, glad you've enjoyed it mate.
I remember the tunnel on Soi 5. I used to play with house band at the Country club there.
Wonderfull quality stuff Pat put a big smile on my face , very well put together .
Mai, cheers! My first movie length video, loved every minute of making this.
I remember Nana about 3 decades ago..... wonderful memories. And.... the Q Bar! Great to see you interviewed Andrew. I wonder if Christopher G Moore is still about in BKK. He would have been able to provide some highly interesting stories about the Thermae.
Thanks Sparkey, Glad you took a trip down memory lane, Andrew is a great guy who likes a chat, and Christopher G Moore is still around, and you're the first to know that we're going to be working on a show together.
Great Video of the Past and Present Bangkok. Thank you for sharing this Historical Video of Bangkok. I have so many great memories of Nana Plaza & Soi Cowboy. I now have a Beautiful Thai wife, Daughter and son here with me in America. Hope Thailand is able to recover from Pandemic soon. We Miss this Big City of Bangkok.
Thanks Chris, apologies for late response, comments are thick and fast on the channel nowadays, many memories of years gone by in those places, at a time when things were less serious and smartphone staring wasn't a thing. We lived a bit more without checking our phones!
@@BangkokPat Thank you for the response ! We love watching your channel !
Worked in Thailand in the late sixties as a tech rep. Stayed at the Nana Hotel in 1967 and at the Grace Hotel in 1968. Went back to Bangkok in 1980 and I stayed at the Federal Hotel. Lots of memories brought back by your video. You show some American military getting off a Pam American airplane. During the Vietnam war Pan American had a bunch of old DC-7 airliners. They would fly US military people on R&R leave anywhere they wanted to go from Vietnam including Bangkok, Hawaii, and I believe even Australia for only $75. They were the good guys. Sorry to see them go.
Nice to hear from you Vincent and apologies for the late response. That shot of the plane landing is from this video: th-cam.com/video/fUWHH6dKXr0/w-d-xo.html which is a video called 'R&R in Bangkok in the 1960s' by US Military Video. I tried going to the website to buy the full video to use but it's not possible any more!
Back in noughties when I was 19 I left home with a friend and flew to Bangkok for the first time, and also first flight. Step off the plane check in then nana was the first place we went to. Eye opening 😂
I miss the old sign it looked so much better.
Excellent video. Loved the old photos and history. I was surprised the Atlanta Hotel on Soi 2 never got a mention, given it's history and pedigree.
I'll tell you why. I went to take a couple of photos of the outside and was told 'no photos' by the a guy outside (not security) it was closed at the time but what's the problem with photos?
I used to go to the Windsor Hotel but have lost track of exactly where it was. Everybody went "window shopping" late at night. I do remember being on Soi Cowboy and there was a bar owned by a Black GI who never went home. Exchange rate was 20THB = $1.00. My last time ther was April 1981 so my memory has faded. Thanks for posting.
That black GI sounds like the cowboy himself!
A great deal of work obviously went into producing this fascinating look at how things were. Many thanks for reposting!
Cheers, took over 5wks in all, was a lot of fun and I met a lot of characters in my travels around this area.
I really enjoyed this video you have done a great job on this video as usual. triple thumbs up.
Thanks Greg.