a pic amongst many1988

[villayouth 37]

This is a great thread Keep the pics coming you old bastards

[yorta2 684]

Agreed, Villa. Fantastic - just brought back so many memories that I had lost. Even though my first trip to LOS was in 1965 and I didn't own a camera back then, some of the ones in the 80s still evoke those old memories. AS he said, keep 'em coming.

[andy1 0]

a few more-- hopefully-- (

Edited December 25, 2010 by andy1

[andy1 0]

first/ me and some villagers , (no villa -- the one long-side me didn,t give me a b/job and i didn,t shag her arse -- )

ahem--

next -yin and her daughter+ yins sister+ her sprogs

next-yin after i gave a good old rodgering ( i don,t think she was smiling about that , only the 1000 bht payment )

next-yins sisters husband poking the tail feather of another chicken, down another chickens throat

next -some bloke and a buffalow in a field (bet i know what he gets upto when it gets dark)

next-i think this ones from the buffalow bar again

in soi diamond

the dark girl was a cracker

[tomcat76 327]

Is it me, or were the pickings so much better back then?

[ShiftySteve 0]

Is it me, or were the pickings so much better back then?

 

Hard to say, but the GFE's were in abundance with very little mention of money up front, that being very much 'up to you'.

 

Being a skinny 24yo may have swung the balance in my favour somewhat

 

And Villa, in case your calculator has run out of batteries, that makes this 'old bastard' a couple of years older than you!

[rhino 1]

all the rest of my pics of patts are quite tame

heres a few of phuket from about 10 yrs back if anyone interested

the girl in red turned out to be a nutter (yah-ba i reckon ) had to chuck her out of loom

its the only time in about 17 trips thats happened nice jugs tho, i used to put my cock between them and cum on her face ,

at least you cant catch a disease that way!- and she gets a free facial

 

That Might be true My friend Andy1 lol but kissing her after might get Something lol eeekkk

But Hell I agree nutin beats a tittie fuck......

[koiyai 0]

Remember it well. My first trip was Jan 1989 - I went to Pattaya after spending a week doing Cowboy, NEP and PatPong. I landing was only 20 and lost my virginity in the Miami Hotel on Sukhumvit Road about 12 hours after landing. Unfortunately I dont have any pictures left as my (thai) wife, who I married in 1993, destroyed any evidence of what I did before. BTW - we are still together and have 2 lovely children.

 

Back then the formula was basically the same as today. However, it was pretty much a mongers only town for Europeans, Australians and North Americans - there was no pretending to be a family resort and definitely no Russkies or Indians in town. Maybe a few Japs. I think there were slightly less gogos than today and far less beer bar places. Cost wise its difficult to remember exactly but I think drinks were 40-50B in a gogo, BF was about 300B, ST was about 250-300B and LT 500B. Overall, there were far far less people, nowhere near as crowded down WS as you see today in high season - fewer katoeys too. Pound/Baht was about 42-45 (I recall it going down to about 36 - ouch - after the Pound dropped out of ERM in 92).

[andy1 0]

Remember it well. My first trip was Jan 1989 - I went to Pattaya after spending a week doing Cowboy, NEP and PatPong. I landing was only 20 and lost my virginity in the Miami Hotel on Sukhumvit Road about 12 hours after landing. Unfortunately I dont have any pictures left as my (thai) wife, who I married in 1993, destroyed any evidence of what I did before. BTW - we are still together and have 2 lovely children.

 

Back then the formula was basically the same as today. However, it was pretty much a mongers only town for Europeans, Australians and North Americans - there was no pretending to be a family resort and definitely no Russkies or Indians in town. Maybe a few Japs. I think there were slightly less gogos than today and far less beer bar places. Cost wise its difficult to remember exactly but I think drinks were 40-50B in a gogo, BF was about 300B, ST was about 250-300B and LT 500B. Overall, there were far far less people, nowhere near as crowded down WS as you see today in high season - fewer katoeys too. Pound/Baht was about 42-45 (I recall it going down to about 36 - ouch - after the Pound dropped out of ERM in 92).

yes koiyai,on my first trip the pound to bhat was really bad, but being a newbie i didn,t know anything about exchange rates! i thought it always stayed the same!

 

i went to patts on a kuoni package holiday, of course-when i got to the hotel, it wasn,t guest freindly

but when i met yin, she knew of a hotel that was -the white hotel in soi diamond- so we stayed there for the duration

 

(i also went to bkk as part of the package too, that hotel wasn,t g/f also (the meridian president) so had to find another)

i met a girl , she was a real stunner, we had to get a short time loom as they wouldn,t let her in , she was the best girl ive ever met- fantastic sex,

i don,t think she,d been on the game very long (still had buffallo shite between her toes type of thing!)--farm fresh--as they say

cheers, andy

[asco 0]

Hmm, getting inspired, i should have some pics from my first visit in BKK back in '69. For sure have some from '77 but now i have to find them too. Been moving around a lot but i give it a try.

[andy1 0]

great asco , look forward too seeing them!

[9cisco999 107]

Imagevenue is doing my nut in...I can't get it to create a page of full-sized images.

Photobucket craps out when I try to upload more than one at a time.....arrrgh!

 

I don't know how you guys have the patience to upload to the forum one at a time

 

Anyhoo, here's my effort from '89.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your effort turned out well Steve as did that of Andy.

 

My thanks to you both.

 

 

 

 

 

[9cisco999 107]

Even though this photo was taken in 1990, there's still Arabic banners across the soi in this photo.

[9cisco999 107]

This is a great thread Keep the pics coming you old bastards

Edited September 15, 2011 by 9cisco999

[9cisco999 107]

Interesting .......... you can see chinese characters on the blue signboard! Think its some type of bank

 

 

 

it is a bank and my lady friend says it's Thai characters. I also though it's not Thai.

 

 

 

I really like these old photos.

 

 

 

[bratpack 91]

Do you know where she's working now? I'm out there next week.

Only kidding (obviously). I just wish I'd discovered Thailand back then but, saying that, I'm grateful for having discovered it and become a regular.

Glyn.

 

 

I am more than glad i DIDNT find out about Thailand until i was 49,at least i worked hard and have a great private pension and stocks and shares,bonds,etc etc.If i had discovered Thailand,coming here twice a year would have fucked me up for ever lol lol

[joekicker 53]

it is a bank and my lady friend says it's Thai characters. I also though it's not Thai.

 

Three languages. Thai on the top, Chinese in the centre, English on the bottom. It's the old Bangkok Metropolitan Bank, which was embezzled out of business -- really in 1997 although it hung on for a few years. Bunch of people doing 300 years or more in jail over that, dummies.

 

I really like these old photos.

 

Some good stuff in this thread for sure.

 

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[Siam Sam 964]

Great stuff. Keep them coming........

[MM 6,562]

Three languages. Thai on the top, Chinese in the centre, English on the bottom. It's the old Bangkok Metropolitan Bank, which was embezzled out of business -- really in 1997 although it hung on for a few years. Bunch of people doing 300 years or more in jail over that, dummies.

 

 

 

Some good stuff in this thread for sure.

 

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Are you talking about this sign in the upper right?

 

 

 

[Parkwahn 61]

Great photos Andy, I remember Walking st from Nov 88

[joekicker 53]

Are you talking about this sign in the upper right?

 

No. Wrong pic. This picture, this sign.

 

 

 

 

Edited September 15, 2011 by joekicker

[Jiklo 1]

Even though this photo was taken in 1990, there's still Arabic banners across the soi in this photo.

 

That's not Arabic; it's Farsi. It's what appears to be an Iranian restaurant. The name translates to "Shell Restaurant". Who knows if it's still around.

[joekicker 53]

That's not Arabic; it's Farsi. It's what appears to be an Iranian restaurant. The name translates to "Shell Restaurant". Who knows if it's still around.

 

Saudi tourists were well established in Bangkok and in Pattaya by the early 1980s. Then there was quite a kerfuffle over some Saudi diplomats and businessmen getting dead in Bangkok, plus a little jewellery theft from the palace of a prince (now the king) in Riyadh by a Thai servant - and the jewels, er, "disappeared" into some hi-so places, never to be recovered. Saudi fired 40,000 Thai workers and banned their citizens, scores of thousands a year, from coming to Thailand. It took many years for even a small Arab presence to reappear.

 

The Iranians were just starting to be a major group coming here in the late 1970s but after the revolution they tapered off and I don't think they ever became any kind of tourist force again - although Iranian refugees became quite active in business and crime, and the TWO Iranian embassies in Bangkok were and are very active in often-nefarious political movements as well as trade. The luckily abortive attempt to blow up the Israeli embassy with a massive truck bomb in 1994. I was rather pleased that the plot failed because I lived next door to the Israeli embassy at the time. The driver had a minor traffic accident with a motorcycle about a block away, and fled on foot, leaving the truck bomb behind.

 

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[Jiklo 1]

The Iranians were just starting to be a major group coming here in the late 1970s but after the revolution they tapered off and I don't think they ever became any kind of tourist force again - although Iranian refugees became quite active in business and crime, and the TWO Iranian embassies in Bangkok were and are very active in often-nefarious political movements as well as trade. The luckily abortive attempt to blow up the Israeli embassy with a massive truck bomb in 1994. I was rather pleased that the plot failed because I lived next door to the Israeli embassy at the time. The driver had a minor traffic accident with a motorcycle about a block away, and fled on foot, leaving the truck bomb behind.

This is anecdotal, but in recent years, I believe the rate of Iranian tourists and expats has increased. This is more or less evident with more of these Iranian restaurants spawning throughout Pattaya although compared with other ethnic groups, they might not shine in numbers.

 

You are right regarding Iranian being involved in commerce and business (I even heard the "Arab," who is giving the Soi Cowboy of Bangkok a face lift, is in fact an Iranian). They are shrewd in some regards when it comes to digging money as an outsider, no matter where they find their foot hold in the world. I have also read about the presence of Iranian drug traffickers and [petty] criminal elements in major cities. What a shame.

 

A recent story I read earlier this year was about a defected high level Iranian intelligence officer, who was running a jewelry store in Bangkok, and evidently began a few years of cooperation with two other anti-Iranian regime individuals to push for a revolutionary movement from the outside of the country. The funny thing is that the aforementioned person of interest immediately abandoned this newly formed group and flew back to the bosoms of the Mullahs and made a series of propaganda appearances to depict the protests of post 2009 presidential election as a product of his former colleagues' foreign agenda to topple the regime.

 

P.S. I thought the "alleged" bomber was acquitted a few years later, wasn't he? Whoever the driver was, he had apparently murdered the truck service employee at the back of the truck he was driving, so one can assume it was a robbery of some sort and since no real perpetrator was identified, the proximity of truck carrying certain explosive material to Israeli embassy might have been coincidental.

[joekicker 53]

This is anecdotal, but in recent years, I believe the rate of Iranian tourists and expats has increased. This is more or less evident with more of these Iranian restaurants spawning throughout Pattaya although compared with other ethnic groups, they might not shine in numbers.

 

Definitely have picked up. There's a bit of cause and effect though. A LOT of Iranian refugees after the revolution, particularly Ba'hai. They got really settled in, got into business (and crime) circles. It's been an upward spiral all along, really. I'm not convinced they're a strong tourist group YET but they're growing for sure.

 

The jewellery store guy and the truck both have quite lengthy back stories. The whole Shiite thingmy in Thailand does. The court case on the alleged truck driver was a shambles from Day One, and the defence was basically that it wasn't him, it was his evil twin brother. I have NO idea if that was the guy; the Iranians totally corrupted the entire process, from his arrest at the Malaysian border right to the acquital. If the Russians were as smart as the Iranians, Viktor Bout would be sipping cold vodka in Moscow at his debriefings.

 

I personally think there is no doubt where that truck was headed and why. HOWEVER by the time they discovered the ammonium nitrate, body and so on -- by then, there was no way that the main bomb would have gone up. So there is some question about the efficacy of the bomb-makers. Nevertheless, I don't know anyone who doubts that the actual attempt was serious - or that there are more than a couple of uniformed Iranians who have quite a lot of knowledge about it.

 

Personally I don't think the destination of the truck is based the coincidence of where the motorcycle accident was. I think the destination was determined from actual info.

 

The Saudi-Iran war has spilled over quite often into Bangkok. There's a reason the CIA and KGB and others had huge stations in Bangkok.