Photos From Trink's Golden Years

[camerata]

A while ago someone was asking about Trink's old Bangkok World column, before it was moved to the Post and castrated by the feminists of the Outlook section. I couldn't find any clippings, but I did come across a few of his typical a-go-go photos, if anyone is interested.

These are from around 19-20 years ago. Somewhere I have his column describing the last night of the original Thermae too...

[ProfessorFart]

Blimey! Go Go girls smiling!!! Thats a rarity these days.............

Nice one Camerata!

[Thetyim]

Oh dear, Oh dear, I have to confess that I recognize one of them.

Pattaya BG1 used to work in Soi Diamond back in the late 80's

Apart from the obvious two reasons for liking her she was a lovely good natured girl. I have got some more piccies of her but modesty

will not allow me to post

[cdnvic]

20yrs ago? This is shortly after aids began rearing its ugly head. Wonder how many of these are still alive?

cv

[camerata]

Blimey! Go Go girls smiling!!! Thats a rarity these days.............

They used to dance too - as anyone who hung out at the Mississippi Queen in the 70s would tell you.

[MikeWill]

It brings up lingering memories of good old times! And some sense as if it were in a world apart... no AIDS, no problems - SEX, SUN & FUN.

(in the 80s, I was in my 30s, single, and living in Pattaya for 3 long years. The time of my life - "a run of birdies".)

Only years later, I came across the Trink's column.

Camerata, please post or PM me the info you have.

[marquess]

Long live the memory of Trink's great newspaper column. It used to make reading the post worthwhile.

[ProfessorFart]

I agree Marquess.

Love him or hate him, Trink was a big part of Thailand expat and tourist life. I used to have my own Saturday (and then Friday) times for reading his column which were often the precursor to a good night out in BKK after a week in the sticks. Trink holds a fond place in my memories of Thailand.

[camerata]

Oh dear,  Oh dear,  I  have to confess that I recognize one of them.

Pattaya BG1  used to work in Soi Diamond back in the late 80's

Apart from the obvious two reasons for liking her she was a lovely good natured girl.  I  have got some more piccies of her but modesty

will not allow me to post

Well, by now she's probably married to a German auto worker with four kids and an apartment in some grim suburb of Frankfurt.

C'mon... pixilate the pink bits with Photoshop and post the pix of her...

[kreon]

Blimey! Go Go girls smiling!!! Thats a rarity these days.............

Nice one Camerata!

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

in 15 years here nothing has really changed...still see many spunks around

the point is that it's all a hunting....the longer you're here the better your eye for beauty do i say more!

[mbkudu]

20yrs ago? This is shortly after aids began rearing its ugly head. Wonder how many of these are still alive? 

cv

I would venture to guess that all of them are still alive. If any are dead, it's most likely from either alcoholism or auto accidents. My first year ever in Thailand was 1991. I don't notice much difference from the girls now and then; only difference now is the shows are tamer and most all wearing clothes or bikinis which doesn't bother me in the least. Looking at a naked girl takes all the unknown out of it; there's nothing left to think about. I think that that period between probably 1989-1999 was when it was at its wildest anything goes. Before then maybe more innocent and now more restricted. I could be wrong; I'm sure there are lots of GIs who have wild stories of Petchburi Road back in the day.

Edited December 17, 2004 by mbkudu

[DaiMai]

Long live the memory of Trink's great newspaper column. It used to make reading the post worthwhile.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

In the early days I would have agreed with you, but latterly he was just a cut and paste merchant with little if any original material.

[Gazza]

Long live the memory of Trink's great newspaper column. It used to make reading the post worthwhile.

In the early days I would have agreed with you, but latterly he was just a cut and paste merchant with little if any original material.

Pre-Internet days his column was so so. I used to hate it though when he'd pad out his column with a half page extract from a book or journal. But his bar news did seem to be first hand though.

Internet days, I got the impression that he was sitting in his office all day waiting for his material to be emailed to him. Then often he would pad out his column with yet another version of a Nigerian scam letter or 3 versions of the same joke.

Sad that he wasn't able to give a farewell peice.

[Neeranam]

Somewhere I have his column describing the last night of the original Thermae too...

I was there too, but can hardly remember a thing, maybe just as well!

[Khutan]

mmm, Old Thermae, New Thermae.

That begs a few comparisons.

Then for the even older, Soi Gold-Star and Soi Cowboy, which is better ?