Historical Pattaya Photos from 1965 to Today

[The Pattaya Ghost]

Hi all,

I've posted this a couple places and the response has been overwhelming. It's a good bet you'll enjoy a photo essay on the history of Pattaya with pix covering every decade since 1965.

Simply go to www pattayaghost com

Story called SnapShots: Pattaya Through the Years

(Darn thing won't let me post links!)

[k1klass]

Intresting pics, and nice site - added to faves

[dirtydog]

(Darn thing won't let me post links!)

Yeah, I think it is something to do with stopping spammers, funny that aint it.

[dirtydog]

So Pattaya Ghost, tell us how many of those pics you own and have rights to stick up on your site?

[dirtydog]

Pattaya 2008: Jomtien Beach -- Witness what man hath wrought. (Photo courtesy Pattaya Days)



Pattaya 2008: Soi 13/3 (Photo: The Ghost)



Pattaya 2008: Walking Street (Photo: The Ghost)

There’s not much you to say about Pattaya in ‘08. Overdeveloped, polluted, commercialized. It is what it has become. Let’s go back 8 years…

2000



Pattaya Walking Street 2000

Even at the turn of the millenium, they were putting tables and chairs in the middle of Walking Street for various festivals, like 2000’s “Beer Festival.” Note the Naris Gallery sign in the 2008 and 2000 photos, as well as a P.72 Hotel sign.

Pattaya Walking Street 2000

Same photographer, same year. This time we see the same Diamond Beach Hotel sign we have now. Honey a Go-Go’s sign remained like that until it was closed to become Sisterz last year. Not much different, really. Let’s go back about 10 more years…

1991



Walking Street Pattaya 1991

OK, now things are getting interesting. Note Honey’s sign is different, as is the Diamon Beach Hotel’s. (Actually, this sign looks better!) Also, what is the round red sign in the middle of this photo and the one above from 1991?

Pattaya Walking Street Daytime 1991

Walking Street during the day. Notice Marilyn’s A Go Go on the right. That’s The Pier complex now. The gate to Walking Street would be where the motorcycle and songthaew are. I bet they were still double-charging farangs even back then. OK, let’s go back another decade…

1979-80


Pattaya Walking Street 1980

Where’s the neon? My guess is that this is Walking Street due to the number of signs here saying “club.” But I could be wrong.

Pattaya Walking Street 1979

The photographer of this picture stated it was Walking Street. Had he not said, it would be pretty hard to spot where it was taken. Things are changing pretty dramatically now. Let’s drop back 8 years.

1971-72



Pattaya Beach 1972

No more photos of Walking Street because I doubt it even existed. But look how great the beach looks.

Pattaya Downtown 1971

This is a shot from downtown. I think the photographer said, but I’ve forgotten. It looks like the beach at the end of the road. Perhaps South Road? Central Road? OK, last stop: The Sixties.

1968



Pattaya 1968: Central Road & Beach Road

This folks, beleive it or not, is the crossing of Beach Road and Central Road. Note the tree smack in the center of the intersection. Beach Road, I guess, was acutually off the beach a bit back then. There was no Second Road then (at least a paved one), so this was the main thoroughfare through Vietnam era Pattaya.

1965



Pattaya 1965

This is how Pattaya looked when my friend first visited here. He first came to Pattaya in 1964 in the run-up to Vietnam. It truly was the slieepy fishing village Wikipedia says it was.

[The Pattaya Ghost]

So Pattaya Ghost, tell us how many of those pics you own and have rights to stick up on your site?

As the article said, they've been collected in various places over the years. In most, if not all, cases, I'd say where I found them was not even the place where they originally were posted. If I knew the original photog or post, I'd have put it.

A search on Google Images with "Pattaya (insert year)" will reveal these photos have been posted in multiple places over the years. In no case have I found that the original copyright holder exerted their rights with any request to have photos remove. Thus, with no action via the copyright holder, these photos are now in the public domain.

[Bobcock]

Where’s the neon? My guess is that this is Walking Street due to the number of signs here saying “club.” But I could be wrong.

Note the original NARIS GALLERY sign and frontage.

[buriramboy]

Just having a quick look at the ghosts site, i see he has been nicking stuff from here.....................

Lights Out on Pattaya’s ‘Darkside’ as Police Close Ex-Pat Bars | The Pattaya Ghost - Pattaya News

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^ Bloody hell, it sure looks like he's interviewed you regarding the matter.

[buriramboy]

^I'm still trying to figure out who he is.

[dirtydog]

^Did he mention you killed my sons pet mouse?

[k1klass]

Does copyright exist on the internet?

[melvbot]

^I'm still trying to figure out who he is.

Be careful. Remember the Stickman/Not Stickman nonsense.

Unless its you of course.

[dirtydog]

He has made 6 posts on teakdoor, 4 of them were relevant to his site, basically he has contributed nothing to teakdoor apart from spam for his site.

[buriramboy]

The guy who writes the Nightmarch articles used to post as gogo ghost on the Pattaya forums but apparantly this ghost ain't him, so still no idea who he is, for the time being!!!!

[rickyinbkk]

My father had visited Pattaya in 1972. He went there for a day trip, since that's what it was suitable for in those days. (Since hardly any holiday facilities existed.).

Today pattaya has more hotel rooms than some entire countries.

The whoremongering was far from existent at that time.

[William]

Does copyright exist on the internet?

errrm, yes.