Jonathan Fairfield Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mansell Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 I was there two years earlier and don't remember all the traffic and noise. It was obviously there, but selective memory. A lot more Thai men wearing shorts then. You don't see that much in BKK anymore. There is more of a sense of peacefulness and a slower life besides the cars etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tandor Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 35 minutes ago, Mansell said: I was there two years earlier and don't remember all the traffic and noise. It was obviously there, but selective memory. A lot more Thai men wearing shorts then. You don't see that much in BKK anymore. There is more of a sense of peacefulness and a slower life besides the cars etc. ...less power lines is about all i could pick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robdisco Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 Great scenes! Thanks Jonathan for sharing with us. The thing that strikes me most is that it actually looks similar to today in so many basic ways, which is great. Despite 50 years of never-ending uber-development of glitz, glam, high-rise in cities like BK, some of the lovely 1960's simple feeling is still there today, often just around the corner from the super-malls full of high end western crap which the rich local people seem to be addicted to. Long may those old, simple, sacred places last! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tofer Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 2 hours ago, tandor said: ...less power lines is about all i could pick. Me too. Also better footpaths. I suppose 52 years of no maintenance is the explanation... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksamuiguy Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 First time in Thailand 1962, oh for a return to those days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooked Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 52 years... so those young kids are still younger than me, so that's ok. Seemed to be a tad more horn honking than now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anto Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 Most of the Adults in that are dead by now .Sobering thought.I was a young 12 year old boy in Ireland ,at the time . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aforek Posted August 7, 2017 Share Posted August 7, 2017 tuck-tucks are the same than today always interesting, these old videos or pictures; no mini-shorts yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDBKK Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 There's a few trucks in that vid that are still rockin' n rollin' today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briggsy Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 Fewer motorbikes, no plastic bags that I could see, more shoulder poles. Amazing how similar it looks to today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masuk Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 Those car horns would drive me crazy. Sounds like China today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobobo Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 On 26/07/2017 at 8:56 AM, cooked said: 52 years... so those young kids are still younger than me, so that's ok. Seemed to be a tad more horn honking than now. Yet there was no Road Rage, no machetes in the car boot, no guns in the glove compartment. I remember a few pickpockets on the non-A/C buses, but generally a lot more peaceful environment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaidream Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 First came in 1967- traffic much less and everyone was using horns when driving. Pace of life much slower. Hardly an Farang around and when you walked about- people would actually stop and stare. We were considered an oddity in some sections of Bangkok. The weather was cooler because of the trees in the city; no high rise building blocking the air flow. There were no overweight people- including me and I actually had hair. Great prices and great people. Wish I could go back to that era but in Thailand only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elektrified Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 Nothing has changed! Life goes on... Great video! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaiguzzi Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 Excellent. I like old stuff like this. Tuk tuks were still 2 strokes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tryasimight Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 2 hours ago, Thaidream said: First came in 1967- traffic much less and everyone was using horns when driving. Pace of life much slower. Hardly an Farang around and when you walked about- people would actually stop and stare. We were considered an oddity in some sections of Bangkok. The weather was cooler because of the trees in the city; no high rise building blocking the air flow. There were no overweight people- including me and I actually had hair. Great prices and great people. Wish I could go back to that era but in Thailand only. I think some farangs are still considered oddities..... But for different reasons these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunlungphudhu Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 Bangkok lost it character when they filled in all the klongs! Wireless Road being just one tree lined dual cariageway almost airconditioned by the canal down the midddle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balo Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 4 hours ago, Thaidream said: There were no overweight people I could actually spot 2 overweight women in the video , not all of then were slim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nanoth Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 I arrived in Bangkok in February 1966....Happy times! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerrybeirne Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 very nostalgic, i wonder if the BOAC building is now the home to british airways? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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