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    Quote Originally Posted by nathanielnong View Post
    Somewhere in 1960s

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    The colorized B&W photos courtesy of ‘Page Siam Colorization by Noomrattana’ show flood in Bangkok in 1917 (Oct. – Nov.).


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    (The sign reading ‘Trocadero’ meant a hotel on Surawong Road? If so, then the information does not match because the hotel was built in 1927. By the way, who can notice that one of the horse’s hind legs is missing!)


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    (Farang engineers are seen inspecting the condition of the railway track, somewhere)
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    Quote Originally Posted by malmomike77 View Post
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    Chao Lao Beach??

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    1960s, Chinese graveyard, Silom, Bangkok

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    1960s, Masjid Al-Kubra, Suan Luang, Bangkok

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    Quote Originally Posted by nathanielnong View Post
    Chao Lao Beach??
    close, that was Laemsing

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    Quote Originally Posted by malmomike77 View Post
    close, that was Laemsing

    Laemsing beach is full of farang. So, that's where you reside. If I remember correctly the road that heads to the cliff then turns abruptly left is very beautiful, zigzag and up and down. Before crossing 'Paknum Kam Noo' Bridge, there is a very nice food shop.

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    Old style 'San Pra Poom' (deity shrines... details on page 19/467)


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    Quote Originally Posted by nathanielnong View Post
    Laemsing beach is full of farang. So, that's where you reside.
    I have only seen a couple of whities, generally its Thais.

    Years ago i met a farang who'd driven down from Udon as his wife had business in BKK and she said they had to visit Chao Lao. Back then there were and still aren't any farang bars or any bars rewally, there was one place doing pizza and a pop up burger place which is where i met them as we'd pulled up to check it out after 5 days of seafood and thai. The bloke did nothing but bitch about the lack of bars and western food and him and his type are exactly the reason i avoid whities on hols if at all possible.

    As for living there, no. The Mrs family have lived in the Chan area for at least 100 years (as far back as family memory goes), they are predominantly fruit farmers but have branched out (excuse the pun) - they have a few 100+ rai farms toward the Cambo border (and smaller farms closer to Chan), land cleared for free years ago. They also sell to Chinky fruit buyers as middlemen and do very nicely.

    We go for visits and always pop in for Durian & Mangosteen season - i've had enough durian for one year now

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    Quote Originally Posted by malmomike77 View Post
    I have only seen a couple of whities, generally its Thais.

    Years ago i met a farang who'd driven down from Udon as his wife had business in BKK and she said they had to visit Chao Lao. Back then there were and still aren't any farang bars or any bars rewally, there was one place doing pizza and a pop up burger place which is where i met them as we'd pulled up to check it out after 5 days of seafood and thai. The bloke did nothing but bitch about the lack of bars and western food and him and his type are exactly the reason i avoid whities on hols if at all possible.

    As for living there, no. The Mrs family have lived in the Chan area for at least 100 years (as far back as family memory goes), they are predominantly fruit farmers but have branched out (excuse the pun) - they have a few 100+ rai farms toward the Cambo border (and smaller farms closer to Chan), land cleared for free years ago. They also sell to Chinky fruit buyers as middlemen and do very nicely.

    We go for visits and always pop in for Durian & Mangosteen season - i've had enough durian for one year now

    Nice information! You are lucky that your Mrs. family owns a very large fruit farms. I am crazy for durian, mango, and mangosteen as well. When the season comes and they come together, I am always worried 'F..., how many do I have to gobble up this year' for once I start, I can't stop. When I was younger I used to eat more than 20 durian, all by myself!

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    The colorized B&W photo courtesy of ‘Page Siam Colorization by Noomrattana’ taken in Nakhon Phanom Province shows elderly Tai Yoh tribe women wearing local clothing. The photo is presumably shot in the reign of King Rama V by his half-brother, Prince Dumrong (page 46/113) during his tour of inspection to the north by the command of the King.


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    Quote Originally Posted by nathanielnong View Post
    Nice information! You are lucky that your Mrs. family owns a very large fruit farms. I am crazy for durian, mango, and mangosteen as well. When the season comes and they come together, I am always worried 'F..., how many do I have to gobble up this year' for once I start, I can't stop. When I was younger I used to eat more than 20 durian, all by myself!
    Its not all wine and roses, the costs, time and managing the workforce involved running large farms is something i'd not want to get involved in. The profits can swing quite dramatically annually dependant upon weather, fruiting, labour availability and market price - too many variables for my liking but over time they've done very well out of it.

    Re the fruit, i love Durian too, my favourite is Chani but its not a commercial variety like Mon Thong, the family grow them for their own consumption. I can eat a whole durian if its between hard and soft stages and i have discovered it goes great with ...............Bacon. I had several bacon and durian brekkies and forgot piccies, next year

    anyway back to the thread, keep em coming.

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    (The colorized B&W photo courtesy of ‘Page Siam Colorization by Noomrattana’ shows Wat Pho in the early reign of King Rama V)


    Wat Pho is a Buddhist temple complex in Bangkok. It is located on Rattanakosin Island, directly south of the Grand Palace. The place is known also as the temple of the Reclining Buddha. The name Pho is only local name. The official name is way too long to write down here.

    Wat Pho is one of Bangkok's oldest temples. It existed before Bangkok was established as the capital by King Rama I. The date of the construction of the old Wat and its founder are unknown, but it is thought to have been built or expanded during the reign of King Phetracha (1688–1703) in the era of Ayutthaya Kingdom.

    This Wat is the first on the list of the six wat in Thailand classed as the highest grade of the first-class royal temples. It is associated with King Rama I who rebuilt the complex on the earlier site. It became his main Wat and is where some of his ashes are enshrined.

    The Wat was later expanded and extensively renovated by King Rama III. The Wat complex houses the largest collection of Buddha images in Thailand, including a 46 meter long Reclining Buddha.

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    Wat Pho is considered the earliest center for public education in Thailand and the marble illustrations and inscriptions placed inside the Wat for public instructions has been recognized by UNESCO in its Memory of the World Programme in 2011. It also houses a school of Thai medicine and is also known as the birthplace of traditional Thai massage which is still taught and practiced at the Wat (related story on page 29/705).

    (To be continued...)
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    A reclining Buddha is an image that represents Buddha lying down and is a major iconographic theme in Buddhist art. It represents the historical Buddha during his last illness, about to enter Nirvana.

    General form of reclining Buddha is him lying on his right side. His head rested on a cushion or relied on his right elbow, supporting his head with his hand.

    After the Buddha's death, his followers decide to build a statue of him lying down.

    This pattern seems to have emerged at the same time as other representations of the Buddha in the Greco-Buddhist of Gandhara

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    (Buddha in Nirvana, Gandhara art, 2nd or 3rd century)


    The Reclining Buddha at Wat Pho was built by King Rama III in 1832. This image represents the entry of Buddha into Nirvana and the end of all reincarnations. The posture of the image is referred to as ‘sihasaiyas’, the posture of a sleeping or reclining lion. The figure is 15 m. high and 46 m. long, and it is one of the largest Buddha statues in Thailand.

    The Reclining Buddha at Wat Pho has a brick core which was modeled and shaped with plaster, then gilded. The right arm of Buddha supports the head with tight curls which rests on two box-pillows encrusted with glass mosaics.

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    The soles of Buddha’s feet are 3 m. high and 4.5 m. long and inlaid with mother-of-pearl. They are each divided into 108 arranged panels displaying the auspicious symbols by which Buddha can be identified such as flowers, dancers, white elephants, tigers, and altar accessories and etc. At the center of each foot is a circle representing a ‘chakra’ or 'energy point'.

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    There are 108 dark bronze bowls in the corridor representing the 108 auspicious characters of Buddha. Visitors may drop coins in these bowls as it is believed to bring good fortune and it also helps the monks to maintain the Wat.

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    Although the reclining Buddha is not a pilgrimage destination, it remains an object of popular piety. An annual celebration for the reclining Buddha is held around the time of the Siamese New Year (Songkran Festival) in April which also helps raise funds for the upkeep of Wat Pho.


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    King Rama IX and Marlon Brando



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    Police General Phao Siyanon (1910 –1960) was an ambitious army officer of Thai-Burmese ancestry who climbed his way up to become a director general of Thailand’s national police.

    He took part in the 1947 coup d’etat that ended the last of Pridi Phanomyong (a Thai Regent, prime minister and senior statesman of Thailand)’s attempts to create democracy in post-World War II Thailand then restored the disgraced Field Marshal Plaek Pibulsongkram to power.

    While being made deputy director of the police, Phao quickly staged a show trial of the alleged "assassins" of King Rama VIII (page 7/164), in which three members of the palace staff were found guilty despite a lack of evidence and were eventually executed even though they had earlier been found innocent.

    Phao was promoted to the position of director of the police in 1951, by which time he had become one of the country's all-powerful triumvirate. A client of the CIA, Phao received funds and hardware to build his personal fortune, as well as the expertise of US paramilitaries such as James William Lair to turn the police into an alternative force to oppose his military rival, Sarit Thanarat (a Thai general who staged a coup in 1957, replacing Field Marshal Plaek Pibulsongkram, Thailand’s prime minister until his death).

    Phao established an intimate circle of police officers, known generally as the "knights of the diamond ring", which was notorious for its treatment of opponents of the government and the police generals, even resorting to assassination and murder. Their crimes were many such as:

    In March 1949, four MPs from Isan and an associate, all one-time disciples of the exiled Pridi, were arrested on charges of treason. They were shot dead by their police escort while supposedly being transferred from one jail to another.

    On 12 December 1952, Tiang Sirikhanth, MP for Sakon Nakhon, a leading Seri Thai (a Thai underground resistance movement against Imperial Japan during World War II) member and an opponent of the government, was arrested with four of his associates. They were murdered (allegedly by strangulation in a police station) and their bodies burned in a forest in Kanchanaburi Province.

    A successful newspaper publisher, Ari Liwara, refused to sell out to Phao and was killed in March 1953.

    In 1954 Phon Malithong, MP for Samut Sakhon who provided evidence of corruption against Phao in Parliament was found tied to a concrete pier in the Chao Phraya River, having first been strangled.

    Phao was extremely wealthy. He demanded protection money from businessmen, rigged the gold exchange, and blackmailed corporations into giving him huge shareholdings.

    He also profited greatly from the opium trade. Police units transferred opium from the poppy fields of the Golden Triangle to Bangkok, ready to be exported. Trucks, planes, and boats which had been supplied to the police by the CIA, were instead used to move opium, which the police carefully guarded.

    Phao lost power when Field Marshal Plaek Pibulsongkram was overthrown by Sarit Thanarat in 1957. He fled to Switzerland where he died at the age of 50.
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    Quote Originally Posted by nathanielnong View Post
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    Police General Phao Siyanon (1910 –1960) was an ambitious army officer of Thai-Burmese ancestry who climbed his way up to become a director general of Thailand’s national police.

    He took part in the 1947 coup d’etat that ended the last of Pridi Phanomyong (a Thai Regent, prime minister and senior statesman of Thailand)’s attempts to create democracy in post-World War II Thailand then restored the disgraced Field Marshal Plaek Pibulsongkram to power.

    While being made deputy director of the police, Phao quickly staged a show trial of the alleged "assassins" of King Rama VIII (page 7/164), in which three members of the palace staff were found guilty despite a lack of evidence and were eventually executed even though they had earlier been found innocent.

    Phao was promoted to the position of director of the police in 1951, by which time he had become one of the country's all-powerful triumvirate. A client of the CIA, Phao received funds and hardware to build his personal fortune, as well as the expertise of US paramilitaries such as James William Lair to turn the police into an alternative force to oppose his military rival, Sarit Thanarat (a Thai general who staged a coup in 1957, replacing Field Marshal Plaek Pibulsongkram, Thailand’s prime minister until his death).

    Phao established an intimate circle of police officers, known generally as the "knights of the diamond ring", which was notorious for its treatment of opponents of the government and the police generals, even resorting to assassination and murder. Their crimes were many such as:

    In March 1949, four MPs from Isan and an associate, all one-time disciples of the exiled Pridi, were arrested on charges of treason. They were shot dead by their police escort while supposedly being transferred from one jail to another.

    On 12 December 1952, Tiang Sirikhanth, MP for Sakon Nakhon, a leading Seri Thai (a Thai underground resistance movement against Imperial Japan during World War II) member and an opponent of the government, was arrested with four of his associates. They were murdered (allegedly by strangulation in a police station) and their bodies burned in a forest in Kanchanaburi Province.

    A successful newspaper publisher, Ari Liwara, refused to sell out to Phao and was killed in March 1953.

    In 1954 Phon Malithong, MP for Samut Sakhon who provided evidence of corruption against Phao in Parliament was found tied to a concrete pier in the Chao Phraya River, having first been strangled.

    Phao was extremely wealthy. He demanded protection money from businessmen, rigged the gold exchange, and blackmailed corporations into giving him huge shareholdings.

    He also profited greatly from the opium trade. Police units transferred opium from the poppy fields of the Golden Triangle to Bangkok, ready to be exported. Trucks, planes, and boats which had been supplied to the police by the CIA, were instead used to move opium, which the police carefully guarded.

    Phao lost power when Field Marshal Plaek Pibulsongkram was overthrown by Sarit Thanarat in 1957. He fled to Switzerland where he died at the age of 50.


    Ah yes.....the good old days of inner-elite intrigue and power holds. The original eras from where it stems.
    Shift to the present days, nothing has changed much at all.

    Keep up the fine works, Nat!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by HuangLao View Post
    Ah yes.....the good old days of inner-elite intrigue and power holds. The original eras from where it stems.
    Shift to the present days, nothing has changed much at all.

    Keep up the fine works, Nat!!
    Thanks...

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    In the old days, Siamese viewing their kings was forbidden and thus, illegal. Later, in around 1857, King Rama IV was the first king of Siam who issued an announcement that his subjects could approach for close admiration without breaking any laws.

    At the same time, the announcement also included the allowing for farung to, when approaching the kings, maintain their own national traditions such as being able to face the king while standing upright and with the hats off and etc.


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    The colorized B&W photo courtesy of ‘Page Siam Colorization by Noomrattana’ shows King Rama IV attending the royal katin (page 29/719) in 1865. The original photo was taken by the Scottish photographer, John Thomson (page 6/147).

    The royal katin was performed at Wat Poh, Bangkok. The King allowed photography to be taken intending that these photographs of Siamese’s sacred religious ceremony be shown to impress farung.

    A part of Thomson’s memo written as ‘… having waited for some time in front of Wat Poh. When the King’s royal procession arrived, he commanded a halt for allowing photographs be taken before moving on…’

    (Note: The original B&W photo courtesy of the Wellcome Collection, England, a free museum)
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    The colorized B&W photo courtesy of ‘Page Siam Colorization by Noomrattana’ shows King Rama IX performing the royal katin at Wat Chanasongkhram, Bang Lumpoo, Bangkok, in 1959


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    Prince Bhanurangsi Savangwongse (1859-1928), King Rama V's biological younger brother

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    King Rama V

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    Eduard Hildebrandt (1818-1868) was a German landscape painter.


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    A documentary (photos not included) titled: The coming of the pawnbroker


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    Pawning one’s goods for temporary monetary relief is among mankind’s oldest financial dealings, its origins stretching back at least 3,000 years to ancient China. Friends indeed in times of need, pawnbrokers appear in the earliest written histories of the Greek and Roman civilizations.

    The earliest evidence of pawning in Bangkok shows up in the March 12, 1890, edition of the Vajirayan Viset newspaper, which reported that Siam had had a species of pawnbrokers “since the old days”, but no pawnshops until 1866, in the late reign of King Rama IV.

    The first such shop was Yong Xiang, founded by a Chinese named Jeg Hong in the Pratu Phi (Ghoat Gate) area at the corner of Bamrungmuang and Mahachai Roads, near Wat Thepthidaram.

    “Jeg Hong was a smart person,” the newspaper declared. “He offered high prices with low rates of interest. He knew well which objects were good or bad and which objects were real or artificial. And even when the objects were not quite good, Jeg Hong always gave a good price. That’s why people liked Jeg Hog and pawned with him.”

    As “banks of the poor”, pawnshops quickly gained popularity and have never fallen on hard times. There are currently more than 280 in Bangkok and another 200 elsewhere in the country.

    Pawnbrokers are customarily busiest just before a new school semester begins, when parents need quick cash to buy their children’s clothes and supplies.

    There are two kinds of pawnshops in today’s Thailand: those managed by the private sector and those by the government, which got into the business in 1960.

    A May 2003 poll conducted by the Rajabhat Suan Dusit Institute found a 22.5-per-cent increase in the number of people using pawnshops since the year before. The most common objects being swapping for money were gold ornaments, wristwatches, cameras and kitchen and electric utensils.

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    Reference is made to page 12/297,
    this photo courtesy of ‘Page Siam Colorization by Noomrattana’ shows King Prachatipok (King Rama VII) signing the first ever constitution on Dec 10, 1932 following a coup by Khana Rassadorn Party on June 24. The grand ceremony celebrating was held on December, 11-12.

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    Loy Krathong festival in the 70s

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    Loy Krathong is once said to have begun in the Sukhothai Kingdom by a court lady named Nopphamat. However, it is now known that the Nopphamat tale comes from a poem written in the early-Bangkok period. However, this tale has been carried on by the Nang Nopphamat pageant (only three ladies on the left…)

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