Siam, Thailand & Bangkok Old Photo Thread

**Rural Surin** · 12-12-2011, 10:23 AM

**Rural Surin** · 12-12-2011, 10:35 AM

**Rural Surin** · 12-12-2011, 10:36 AM

**watdog** · 12-12-2011, 11:47 AM

a truly great thread. hat tip

**Thaidan** · 13-12-2011, 05:45 AM

such a great thread

**Hampsha** · 14-12-2011, 07:17 PM

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

Funny this is cokethai.com but there is a pepsi advert in the background.

**Rural Surin** · 16-12-2011, 10:26 AM

**Rural Surin** · 16-12-2011, 10:29 AM

**Rural Surin** · 16-12-2011, 10:34 AM

^ same as it ever was..

^ Phahon Yothin Road, Lad Phrao

^ Sukhumvit

**Rural Surin** · 16-12-2011, 11:15 AM

**Rural Surin** · 16-12-2011, 11:21 AM

**Rural Surin** · 16-12-2011, 11:23 AM

**Rural Surin** · 16-12-2011, 11:25 AM

**Rural Surin** · 16-12-2011, 11:27 AM

**Rural Surin** · 16-12-2011, 11:30 AM

**Rural Surin** · 16-12-2011, 11:34 AM

**Rural Surin** · 16-12-2011, 11:36 AM

**Hampsha** · 17-12-2011, 05:30 AM

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

To get this picture the girls must have been told to stand over there and act normal or something like that. I can't imagine people at that time being apathetic to someone with a camera. Even nowadays people take interest when someone strange is taking pictures.

**Bazzy** · 18-12-2011, 01:27 AM

^ early film didn't expose instantly. All photos were staged over a long period (like 10 - 20 minutes), the subjects had to stand still, hence why they always look very stiff and formal. Aside from the novelty and relative expense.

**Rural Surin** · 19-12-2011, 11:24 AM

**Rural Surin** · 19-12-2011, 11:25 AM

**Rural Surin** · 19-12-2011, 11:27 AM

**Rural Surin** · 19-12-2011, 11:31 AM

**Rural Surin** · 19-12-2011, 11:34 AM

This image of 1900 might be of a more common practice amongst a lower-caste.

**Rural Surin** · 19-12-2011, 12:57 PM

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Ladies of 1900 Mahasarakham...

1922 Paknam....

A view of Ratchamnoen Road - March 1950

1975 BKK flooding in front of the Presidential Theatre...

'83 Floods

Prisoners/Slaves of 1862 Siam

1868

1868 portrait of Siamese girls

Petchaburi village life of 1870

1900 Siamese opium junkies...

Postman of their time......1895 & 1946

1933 Chiang Mai. Proprietors of their boutique-shop

The streets of 1961 BKK

1868 Lopburi

A Siamese Noble of 1880

Along the Ping River, Chiang Mai. Circa 1897

Scenes from the cremation ceremony of Prince Uruphong, 1899

Cremation of a child at Wat Saket

Quiet gamesmanship of 1906

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