My first visit was mid 1982>>



Featuring Nana Plaza, Sukhumvit Road. The Story of Q Bar, The Thermae, Sukhumvit’s old nightlife history. Who was Buckskin Joe?
Cheap Charlies was where you went if you didn't know anyone and would make lasting friends over a beer

(old) Thermae during the 80's at 3 am was ............
almost like this

Well this brings back lots of memories since I first started annual holidays in 1986 through to about 2000 (Pattaya thereafter).

The original Thermae, Buckskin Joe and Nana (when the middle of it was just a car park).

My regular hotel was in Soi 11 but I did stay a few times at the Grand Palace Hotel...unfortunately it's 'palace' days were long gone. I remember being stuck there during Black May or Bloody May in 1992 with a nightly curfew. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_May_(1992)

Haha 1.44 mins in " The Dynasty Inn" about 100 yards on the left exiting Nana Plaza was my regular hotel from my early years in Thailand. Always used to stay a couple of nights arriving on a trip and then on the way out. They had a couple of regular taxi drivers stationed there who had comfortable and immaculately maintained old Volvo's and I'd get one of those down the road to Pattaya, usually asleep with a massive hangover.

Did an afternoon Soi by Soi walk the odd numbered side of Sukhumvit on my last afternoon when I was up a couple of months ago starting in Nana, I was looking forward to sort of mimi bar crawl down memory lane but everywhere was so deserted or closed up I ended up back in Phrom Pong without stopping anywhere. Very disappointing.

I miss the ramshackle old places that are being replaced by the concrete and marble new condos, shopping malls, hotels and office blocks. It all seems so characterless.

1989 was my 1st to Nana and Cowboy as a tourist...40 or 50 baht a beer if I recall...
Moved to BKK permanently in 1991 and had night time teaching jobs on Asoke...SINO Thai and Nedloyds are 2 I recall...Was mainly on Cowboy after teaching...Was pretty good back then for a 29 year old...and the price was right at the time...3 or 4 years later everything changed...

In the 90's I used to stay at the Atlanta Hotel in Soi 2. Great memories. Playing pool , drinking cheap beer, having fun. A complete different atmosphere than today.

Only been to nana once and cowboy once, didn’t see the appeal tbh


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My first visit to Nana Plaza was in 1993.

I still miss the burgers at Woodstock.

My last visit was in 2016. I was there about 10 minutes.

truffledog wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2020 11:26 pm In the 90's I used to stay at the Atlanta Hotel in Soi 2. Great memories. Playing pool , drinking cheap beer, having fun. A complete different atmosphere than today.

in the 80's, my hotel of choice was the crown on soi 6.
Mirrors on the ceiling>>>:-)