Pattaya in 1979

[Jonathan Fairfield]

 

 

 

 

[realenglish1]

Not much different than today albeit hairstyles are different

[LALes]

Beach looked a lot wider and cleaner.  I don't remember jet skis being around back then.  Water was probably cleaner, too.

[Henricus]

Walking Street

[Pomrakuhn]

How do we view this video ?
I get a tiny picture half the size of a postage stamp that is not live ?

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[KhunBENQ]

I love the comments in "Austrian-German"

German with an Austrian voice and some vocabulary specific to Austria.

One remark translates like:

"Pattaya developed to a glamorous beach resort"

 

"The so-called bathing-beach rarely offers a quiet place for romantic characters. It's more like a fun-fair and a market".

Edited March 26, 2018 by KhunBENQ

[KhunBENQ]

16 minutes ago, Pomrakuhn said:

How do we view this video ?
I get a tiny picture half the size of a postage stamp that is not live ?

Sent from my CAM-L21 using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app
 

Some users have a technical problem with those embedded FB links.

Try this:

https://www.facebook.com/100002600698167/videos/1598533806909960/

 

[Thaidream]

The difference is obvious- water cleaner-no overbuilding and chaos like today.  I was there in the early 70s and it was pristine- no jet skis or the other scam nonsense and only  1 western style hotel. Compared to yesteryear- the current Pattaya is horrid!!

[Mansell]

The jet skis are just a small boat with an outboard, a sort of crude jet ski. I was surprised to see the parachute thing being towed around at that time....didn't know they were around in the late seventies. Never having been to Pattaya it looks quite nice back then.

[grobec]

Ah yes, the good olde days.

notice the outboard on the seadoo.

we used to call them farang leg eaters.

seems like the “talent” was also better those days. Sigh.

[cookieqw]

think ive just seen my future M-in-L

[generealty]

What no ladyboys, tattood freelance girls harrassing you. Even those pesky Farangs look a cut above the norm. So all in all Pattaya has gone down dramatically since this was taken. Love the bit where the lady picked up her Lilo and just walked across Beach Road- unheard of today !

[johng]

I wonder if the beach erosion started before or after they cut down most of the trees to make way for deckchairs ?

[ianwheldale]

My first visit in1989. Didn't look a whole lot different to that video, though doubtless more hotels by then.

[Denim]

My first visit was in 1979. It didn't yet have the reputation of being the sex capital of the world , just a step up from a holiday in the Med.