June 21, 20197 yr For documentation purposes. Who knows someone will write a history some day of this famous gay Soi, and then after the fact photos are also needed.
June 21, 20197 yr Popular Post For decades it was a favourite destination for masses of gay visitors to Bangkok. A few will not have liked it - the increasingly aggressive touts, the decline in the quality of the shows, the regular increases in drink prices to almost ridiculous levels and so on. I can quite understand that some preferred to keep away. On the other hand, even if my visits to the gogo bars declined in recent years, I enjoyed sitting in Dicks Cafe, enjoying a couple of drinks, a reasonable meal and the chance to sit and just people watch. Increasingly I preferred the attentions of some of the cute waiters in the beer bars where drinks were far more reasonably priced and where the company was often great fun. But time moves on. It was a part of my history that I will recall with much pleasure.
June 21, 20197 yr Popular Post A drink in Dick's, watching the crowds- tourists, dancers, staff- the cheapest and best (almost) way to spend an hour in Bangkok. And the same goes for Panorama. Ten years ago.
June 21, 20197 yr So sad to see :-( However another part of me that is so pissed off about the closure was that they did it just after FINALLY getting their plastic rain covering properly erected along the length of the Soi ! Myself and many another farang friend sat over a beer many a night mid perving over the cute guys whilst watching the various incarnations of the various bits of plastic they'd had draped across the Soi previously, with those usually flapping pointlessly in the wind and usually totally failing in stopping much ingress of rain. Also fun was sitting perhaps during especially heavy downpours and watching the plastic fill like small lakes along the Soi and then waiting for the boys to empty those with a brush pushed up from below and that usually over the head of some SO CALLED straight arsehole farang, who had seemingly "inadvertently" decided to walk the length of the Soi "by mistake" whilst doing their whole (fake and fooling no one as to why they were there) aggressive "DO NOT TOUCH ME" act to each and every cute bar tout who grabbed them in passing whilst just doing their job. So, after all those years and after all the (very drunken) very highly thought technical plans drawn out on the back of bar mat ( large amount of tongue in cheek there of course :-) with us advising on the perfect roof shelter, there eventually the Thai's FINALLY got around to ACTUALLY going and doing it - and THEN the closed the whole bloody Soi down ! How VERY Thai of them ! :-)
June 22, 20197 yr On 6/21/2019 at 7:54 AM, PeterRS said: I enjoyed sitting in Dicks Cafe Good point. Since the bars are now spread out a little, I suppose we can no longer sit in Dicks Cafe or the 2 bars at the entrance to the soy watching boys enter or leave the soy. Whilst this isn't comparable to being in a gogo bar, it was one more way to make eye contact with some nice boys which can lead to a later meeting.
June 23, 20197 yr Absolutely. And , apparently, Panorama in Boyztown has been bought by Castro. That's another one gone. O tempora, o mores......those happy early evenings sitting there, bir-singh at the ready, watching the go-go dancers pass by on their way to work, waiting for the bars to open......
June 23, 20197 yr 1 hour ago, Londoner said: Absolutely. And , apparently, Panorama in Boyztown has been bought by Castro. That's another one gone. O tempora, o mores......those happy early evenings sitting there, bir-singh at the ready, watching the go-go dancers pass by on their way to work, waiting for the bars to open...... Straying from the title of the thread a tad, I heard last night that Panorama is closed at present being renovated. David has gone back to England where he discovered that he had cracked a hip in his recent Pattaya motorcycle accident. I have read on another board that Panorama has been completely gutted prior to it's reopening as CASTRO ll Edited June 23, 20197 yr by Patanawet Added info.
June 23, 20197 yr 13 hours ago, Londoner said: Absolutely. And , apparently, Panorama in Boyztown has been bought by Castro. ....those happy early evenings sitting there, bir-singh at the ready, watching the go-go dancers pass by on their way to work, waiting for the bars to open...... that survey still can be done from Castro or Copa terrace although Panorama's position was better to spy BBB entrances
June 26, 20197 yr Although I was a prophet of gloom once the demise of Soi Twilight was announced, I am delighted the bars have found alternative accommodations and are still relatively close together. What I miss is the proliferation of beer bars staffed often by very cute guys where one could just sit having a drink at a reasonable price with pleasant company watching the gay world go by. The gogo bars are there but not the atmosphere. Not yet!
June 26, 20197 yr 41 minutes ago, PeterRS said: . What I miss is the proliferation of beer bars staffed often by very cute guys where one could just sit having a drink at a reasonable price with pleasant company watching the gay world go by....... Not yet! slowly but surely we will push girls to Patpong 1 where they belong and will invade existing beer bars to convert them to gay ones. Let's talk in a year or two
June 26, 20197 yr 1 hour ago, gerefan said: Bet they rue the day this was hung.... message was accurate , just they hung it 5 years too late
June 26, 20197 yr Author I wonder how the maker could be so far off. Or was the decision to demolish the soi now, really so last minute that even people who should be in the known (bar owners) really though it would go on for 6 more years? Or was this sign a deliberate lie?
June 26, 20197 yr 2 hours ago, abidismaili said: I wonder how the maker could be so far off. Or was the decision to demolish the soi now, really so last minute that even people who should be in the known (bar owners) really though it would go on for 6 more years? Or was this sign a deliberate lie? I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a lie designed to stop customer numbers from declining too early. That would make sense and is an effective if dishonest tactic. It could also be that the sign maker was ignorant of the truth or just wildly optimistic.
June 26, 20197 yr Like most things you encounter in Bangkok that are hung - just give it long enough and they usually let you down eventually - all just only a matter of timing as too when !
June 26, 20197 yr 5 hours ago, abidismaili said: I wonder how the maker could be so far off. Or was the decision to demolish the soi now, really so last minute that even people who should be in the known (bar owners) really though it would go on for 6 more years? Or was this sign a deliberate lie? Wishful thinking.
June 26, 20197 yr 10 hours ago, PeterRS said: Although I was a prophet of gloom once the demise of Soi Twilight was announced, I am delighted the bars have found alternative accommodations and are still relatively close together. What I miss is the proliferation of beer bars staffed often by very cute guys where one could just sit having a drink at a reasonable price with pleasant company watching the gay world go by. The gogo bars are there but not the atmosphere. Not yet! Totally agree. Gogo bars ok but miss the places just to sit and watch.
June 26, 20197 yr 2 hours ago, Will7272 said: Totally agree. Gogo bars ok but miss the places just to sit and watch. I would not give up. Twilight soi was once the one bar. As the bars came, places to feed the customers with seating to watch came. Let the customers come an entrepreneur will likely follow
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