Pages of Rememberance (2024)

[CharlieH]

Continuation from an auto-archived topic..

 

 

[scottiejohn]

Nick the previous owner of MAD DOG passed away in hospital on Saturday 27 April 2024.

 

R.I.P.

 

PS  Exact date added to save confusion with the age of the previous post!

[khunphil]

13 hours ago, scottiejohn said:

Nick the previous owner of MAD DOG passed away in hospital on Saturday 27 April 2024.

 

R.I.P.

 

PS  Exact date added to save confusion with the age of the previous post!

That's sad . Really. Rest in Peace Nick.

[SamSipEt]

Thanks for all the laughter and the good times Nick.  RIP.

[SamSipEt]

For anyone who wishes to attend the funeral I have attached the details on behalf of a good friend who for some strange reason has been banned from ThaiVisa.

[IronByron]

Thanks for the good times Nick, RIP.

[Bee991]

RIP NICK: Hadnt seen Nick for a few years but I was in CM Aug/Sept 2024 & Mad Dog wasnt looking that good. I never saw Nick but it takes me back to the Escape days when I first met him & John Ball. He did the Mad Dog up really nice & I always went there on my jaunts back to CM. Also just found out Aussie Ray Simmons passed away I think last month. Ray owned the original Aussie Cafe opposite the Prince then the Tiger Bar & did a stint in Soi 1 MoonMuang---the Aussie Cafe started the ChiangMai Golfers Club & the Visa runs to Mae Sai. After Ray left Mark Ellenden [DcD] ran the cafe then Bert a Postie from Holland then it closed & is today a section. The Golfers Club is now the Chiangmai Social Golfers Club and the originals Tama Ruru NZ is still ticking along /Mark [DcD] & Rick Cameron [DcD]...... both from Aus--great guys the whole lot of them & the best days in ChiangMai by far....Too everyone on this day enjoy Xmas 2024...chok dee bee mai

[Aussiepeter]

On 12/25/2024 at 6:10 AM, Bee991 said:

RIP NICK: Hadnt seen Nick for a few years but I was in CM Aug/Sept 2024 & Mad Dog wasnt looking that good. I never saw Nick but it takes me back to the Escape days when I first met him & John Ball. He did the Mad Dog up really nice & I always went there on my jaunts back to CM. Also just found out Aussie Ray Simmons passed away I think last month. Ray owned the original Aussie Cafe opposite the Prince then the Tiger Bar & did a stint in Soi 1 MoonMuang---the Aussie Cafe started the ChiangMai Golfers Club & the Visa runs to Mae Sai. After Ray left Mark Ellenden [DcD] ran the cafe then Bert a Postie from Holland then it closed & is today a section. The Golfers Club is now the Chiangmai Social Golfers Club and the originals Tama Ruru NZ is still ticking along /Mark [DcD] & Rick Cameron [DcD]...... both from Aus--great guys the whole lot of them & the best days in ChiangMai by far....Too everyone on this day enjoy Xmas 2024...chok dee bee mai

Sorry to hear my long time friend Ray Simmons died. When last in CM for a visit in 2023, he told me his lungs were "stuffed" & that he was on borrowed time. I was a regular at the Aussie Cafe & met some nice people there. In 2004 I met an American there (also named Ray) who asked me where I had acquired the army field coat I was wearing, as he had an identical one. I told him it had been issued to me (in Australia) during the Vietnam war & we became instant friends. We agreed to meet up again for a beer the following week, but sadly it never happened. Two days after I met him, he never arrived home. A search by his Thai wife & the police found his body in the ditch next to the CM Lamphun Road - victim of a hit-and-run from behind. On his Honda Dream, he never had a chance. He'd been badly wounded in the Battle of the Idrang Valley, made famous in the Mel Gibson film "We Were Soldiers" only to die in an accident in C Mai. Sadly, I've lost count of those I knew that have died in Thailand by misadventure. I lived in C Mai for over 25 years, on & off. I left C Mai with my Thai family for ever in 2013, after getting laryngeal cancer from breathing the air pollution  (I never smoked). Radiation treatment in Australia cured me, but no way will I ever return to live in LOS. I was also a long-time friend of Ian McDougal, an original partner in 'The Escape' bar, only to find out that he too had died, in a plane crash in Indonesia in 2012. He was a friend of my ex-wife 'Dang' (Suntaree) whom I understand has also died in recent years from heart failure, although nobody seems to know much about it (I divorced Dang in 1992). If anyone knows more, please PM me, or let me know. I was a long time customer of "The Mad Dog" - which for those who are not aware, burned down on Christmas Eve 2024, with no loss of life. RIP Nick, Ray, USA Ray & Ian (Blinky Bill to those in the know on here) & if she really has passed on, my beloved Dang. Not many of us old-timers from the great days in C Mai in the 1990's are left now. I'm 73 - so probably next cab off the rank.....