✅VANISHING BANGKOK EP 5 | Ministry Of Sound | Bangkok Prison | Washington Sq | Charoen Krung

A fantastic trip arounc old Sukhumvit cinemas, the former Ministry Of Sound nightclub, Klong Prem Prison, Washington Square, Soi Wanglee, Bangkok's tram system plus a few other landmarks now consigned to the dustbin of history. Some were destined to fail while others were miscarriages of justice, like the disgraceful Soi Wanglee fiasco which should never have happened.
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LINKS: Philip Jablon’s Book: Thailand’s Lost Theatres: www.asiabooks.com/thailand-s-movie-theatres-relics-ruins-and-the-romance-of-escape-237127.html Bangkok Corrections Museum: maps.app.goo.gl/WnvL7cjAqZrEW4NEA Washington Square video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJbQiWyYmMucZ7s

[@warntheidiotmasses7114]

Hey Pat. Billy here. We met at Bang Sue station a few months ago. What ever happened to roller skating in Thailand? There was a roller rink in Chiang Mai. Why aren't Thai people into roller skating?

[@simonk5571]

the book is out of stock unfortunately

[@Andy-eb1hq]

david attenborough of BANGKOK❤

[@1greenMitsi]

every city deserves a pat

[@MeditateMeHigher]

😂😂😂😂😂😂❤

[@speedofthought9309]

😂😂😂

[@sinchaikesorn8097]

At 0:08, you stood on the opposite side of my beloved Debsirin school separated by a lovely canal. I used to be a student there in the late 80s. I'm a native of BKK and I really appreciate you share many interesting facts I didn't know about my home city. Watching your videos is like going back to my history class at Debsirin school. Well done, sir.👍👍👍 Greetings from California. ขอให้โชคดีมีความสุขนะครับ = wishing you best of luck and happiness. 💚💚💛💛😊😊🌞🌞👏👏❤️❤️👍👍🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🙏🙏

[@advwxyz]

I have never been to BKK- and Pat's content is stellar!!!

[@sinchaikesorn8097]

@@advwxyz BKK keeps changing and developing. Pretty sure once you stay there for a month, you would love to stay there forever.

[@Get-A-Life]

Once again, the Gold standard for Bangkok content and research delivers another awesome vid. Cheers Simon

[@carleto9597]

You did a good job on making this video and put in a lot of work of history and old pictures. Thanks for the video, very good job, Pat. You have a great day there in Bangkok.

[@JohnRunaway.Official]

Nice! I really enjoy this series ❤

[@thaitvfan5605]

Omg! You are truly know about Bangkok 👍👍👍👍🙏 ...from aThai peope .Respects you .

[@SBArrow310]

I really enjoy these history videos. Love seeing the old film clips and pictures.

[@benpellegrom6488]

I dont know the ministry of sound but I am a devotee of the ministry of BKK Pat. Sometimes I feel the great cities were cooler 20 years ago but then again in 20 years people will say the same thing. So the lesson is the time is now to see as much as possible!

[@bertvanderkooij2886]

Those transition shots must have taken quite some effort, but they are fantastic!! Please keep producing more episodes 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@lesgortat7534]

So good seeing your chanel grow . God bless and keep trucking your doing great

[@topgammar3763]

Really cool! The information in this infographic demonstrates how the upper echelons closely interconnected with the West; hence, various buildings were influenced by the Western architecture.

[@highbrand]

Went to lots of silver shops on Charoen Krung back in the 90s. Remember getting some unique silver jewellery samples there and passing them on to my friend. His company then made cheap knockoffs of the samples in India.

[@johnsimms9015]

Thanks for another great video, Pat. I remember going to that Villa supermarket at Soi 41, I think. I lived very close to Washington Square in the mid 80's and remember it well. Glad I had a dish of red beans and rice at Bourbon Street before they had to relocate. I miss the old Bangkok. It was such a great place to be for many reasons.

[@alexmalcolm5577]

Another classic. I enjoyed that.

[@stephenjordan4209]

Superb stuff as always Pat, really enjoy your videos.. Keep up the great work. Stevieboy

[@Steven.21]

Excellent video and well documented. Thanks! Always nice to see how cities or certain places change over the years. See you soon in Bangkok and look forward to having you as a guide

[@peterthermocline]

I remember the MOS, it was a disaster from the beginning, what goes in London doesn't necessarily transcend to Thailand but that whole era of raids during 2001 government Q Bar in Sukhumvit major Police raids and pee tests all for the big camera, the nightlife was no fun back in 2001 - 2006

[@shaunashton9744]

Thailand and Bangkok has every right to modernise and determine its own future but they do need to decide how many of its old buildings can they destroy. When we were doing our walking tour I was amazed at how many old beautiful buildings that deserved to be preserved and lived in. Tourists such as myself won't come back for soulless shopping centres. Looking forward to many more visits.

[@antonkarridian2895]

I feel the same way about tourists and shopping malls. Here in the US, malls were very popular 20 years ago, before Amazon and online shopping. Do Thailand malls experience the same popularity in young people as we used to? One big draw is they are air conditioned.

[@shaunashton9744]

@antonkarridian2895 in Australia it's the same as the USA, but as you say, Thailand is different due to the heat. Either way I have no intention of spending my time in these places but the food courts are very good compared to our western cities

[@osvaldospezia5267]

Cultural video and great edition !!

[@politanene]

Great job Bangkok Pat!❤

[@gezeers]

Something new to learn about Bangkok.3 shopping malls owned by the same company and all a stone throw away from each other. Love the old to the new photos just shows how much bangkok has changed as the years go by.😊😊😊😊

[@JohnWilson-gj7wj]

Fascinating as always. Thanks for all your hard work 👍

[@gertdrok]

Pat, a Very Interesting Video, with as always your Clear Information. 🙏

[@user-kz9rp3pq2z]

Loved it. Thanks Pat!

[@ageoflove1980]

Again, great quality with so much historical documentation!

[@Swaggerlot]

Top notch once again!

[@boxcartwilly]

Great video, very interesting and good to see the old photos.

[@retiredpainter259]

Another excellent vlog Pat , I’d love to go round some old museums if I can ever get back over again

[@c.k.2]

You should have a job at a decent Thai university regarding BKK history!

[@c.k.2]

A few years later on the students will call you Satrajan!

[@rowdyduterte8476]

Loving the BBC style videos mate. Would be good if you could just do a video on Emquartier or some new shoppong centre 😂

[@BangkokPat]

I can never find anything interesting to say about malls! And l'm certainly not the type to walk around pointing out brand name shops, plenty of channels doing that already.

[@daviddenham1511]

Get the cat inserts in ….yay!!!

[@darrenmunro2880]

Woke up and saw this post. Thought I’d treat myself before I start my day. Knew BKK in the late nighties for all the wrong reasons. Of course. lol. Before cctv and smart phones. Remember the drug raids and drink curfews. We would go down to din daeng and drink out of ice buckets. My wife and I left back 23 years ago to make our wealth then return. We’ve only got as far as Portugal for now while we do the final transition. Look forward to spending the last years of our lives in the warmth of Thailand. Bkk offers everything as long as you can afford it!

[@scandicdream]

Had lots of fun at “MOS” during that time, the Thaksin government frugged it all up…as you say, it took a long time for the party scene to recover….

[@christopherlaw9184]

So interesting and well presented 🏆👍🏼

[@newhorizon4066]

Re Old Cinemas, almost by default they turned to porn or "suck" (I leave that to the viewer imagination) theaters - which was quite common a phenomenon in SE Asia - as their last gasp before the bulldozer was called in. Phil Jablon (of the fascinating cinema blog mentioned above) did give the spotlight on one on Petchaburi whose cavernous lobby/first floor became the place to hang out for working belles in the neighborhood.

[@alexmalcolm5577]

Thanks!

[@jurimay6579]

Thank you for the support @alexmalcolm 🙏😇

[@Steven-t9s]

Amazing research has gone into this video backed up by old photographs of how things used to be.

[@halojumper5105]

another great video , dedicated to the city we love!

[@Dodger1999]

In the 60s Bangkok had a movie theater boom today its a shopping mall boom. I suspect within 20 years the malls will be closing which is currently happening in North America.

[@freeagent8225]

Loved the cinema's an escape from Thailand and the heat. All gone.

[@gangsom]

Could you do a video on the vanashing bars and nightlife of the nana area?

[@aliowl]

I used to go Ministry and I never knew they opened a club in Bkk, interesting

[@brade..9789]

Really appreciate you Pat.. Such a Legend..

[@mtag6989]

Thank you for this great video!

[@nickbangkok3365]

Excellent documentary Pat! No pics of Taffy's Hairy Pie Club in Washington Sq?! Has any of your research provided any credence to the the supposed happening of elephants playing football with inmates trapped inside balls made of bamboo at Maha Chai Rd prison? Or is that just another urban myth?

[@athitaya6898]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@germanbeer2466]

Great deal of history. Thx

[@alfredmoser3820]

Danke!

[@jurimay6579]

Thank you for the support @alfredmoser 🙏😇

[@tedrick4713]

Good stuff. Thanks

[@jamesboon6046]

Thanks Tim!!

[@nn.roberts]

Or Pat, maybe?

[@BangkokPat]

I resemble Tim Newton when l shave my head

[@nn.roberts]

Hehehe Yes, TNT - that is also a great KZbin channel. @@BangkokPat

[@williamsparks8013]

Great job, BP (Bangkok Pat)!

[@BangkokPat]

I thought you may have mistaken this for the British Petrol (BP) channel

[@mcmurtraypd]

These are my favorites of your videos. Thank you for doing them. Did any of the better known Washington Square businesses other than Bourbon Street and The Dubliner survive by relocating?

[@BangkokPat]

The Sportsman move to Soi 13, apart from that I am not sure.

[@mcmurtraypd]

Thanks. I should have included Sportsman in my first post. By the time I started going to Bourbon Street in 2002 or so, it already seemed to not quite fit in other than with the American theme. I only stopped at Lone Star and Silver Dollar once or twice. A little bit young for the target demographic but everyone was polite and I’m glad I went since that’s really a part of Bangkok expat history. Thanks again for what you do.

[@siscott6066]

I'm sat here chuckling to myself they just wacked concrete and tarmac over the tram rails instead of repurposing them there must be miles of track buried around Bangkok 😂😂😂😂 I love these vlogs about disappearing Bangkok i don't know if you have done one about Pattaya because every year a building has been demolished and something replaced it like the hooters bar gone i haven't seen anything about it since, they keep talking about a tram going along beach road but personally i don't think it will happen in my life time.

[@Boddav]

Are you familiar with Dasa Books?Very close the Phrom Phong BTS with an excellent selection of used books.I wonder how long they have before there.

[@BangkokPat]

I remember Dasa opening around 2006, it was great for foreigners because of the great selection of course, at the time there was only Asia Books and Bookazine that were in some malls.

[@douglasyong6939]

Appreciate the evolving Bangkok theme, any interest to cover hiking trails and bicycling routes in Greater Bangkok?

[@BangkokPat]

Global Travel Mate has done many cycling routes in Bangkok

[@kittenastrophy5951]

When I was young, had been confused which one is Klong Prem which one is Lat yao ? Yes I pass it regularly since the time it still functioned as planned until what it is today, the tram tracks beside the MOD too. Track was still there in the early 90s.

[@BangkokPat]

Tram tracks are still by the MOD building. Odd that they called it Klong Prem when it was the old prison and then the new prison runs alongside the Khlong Prem Prachakon canal.

[@kittenastrophy5951]

@@BangkokPat Really Pat, the track at MOD? I think I haven't seen it sometime in the 2000s.

[@stevozrepto5558]

😀 Get to the darkside. 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🔔

[@BangkokPat]

If you mean Pattaya, I lived on the dark side 20yrs ago, friend has some property there, about 5 miles in. I was surrounded by nothing but a lake and jungle.......Now that place is surrounded by housing complexes and shops along the roads that were previously dusty lanes I'd ride my bike along..

[@_Alfa.Bravo_]

3rd

[@jurimay6579]

😻😻

[@ancientneophyte8322]

Anyone remember Thai Yanok?

[@JeddieT]

Why did they _”…very quickly cover [the bricks of the old city wall] again”?_

[@BangkokPat]

It's hardly an archeological find, the wall was dismantled at the end of the 19th century and it stood for something I suppose they weren't very proud of (fearing a Burmese attack) I believe. Maybe in a few hundred years it'll be appreciated when unearthed....

[@JeddieT]

@@BangkokPat …Thanks Pat.

[@olafzijnbuis]

When I first visited Bangkok in 1979 I went to see The Deerhunter in a cinema on Sukhumvit Road (if I remember correctly). For the foreigners there was a large room with a glass separation in the back where they played the original English soundtrack. I was in Thailand for 4 weeks in January 2024 after an absence of 40 years. Many things changed. Luckily the food is the same!

[@Thaistreetgrub]

Always appreciate your hard work Pat for putting together an excellent show!! ❤

[@greedisgood3]

Pat---One of your best Vids ! For me it brought back so many memories for this old oil rig veteran. MOS was fun for a short time. My home was Washington Sq btw the Silver Dollar and the Lone Star circa 1996-2008. The owner of the Lone Star now lives in Houston, Tx, USA and runs a restaurant there with her daughter. A lively bar after 9PM. Bourbon St for Holiday dinners were the best. Deny's Bar was my 1st bar in BKK and I lost my heart, and a large chunk of money. to an Isaan girl working there. Thanks for the memories.

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

I like these vids where you find remains of the old Bangkok, very interesting.... Sad as well, at the destruction of Thai heritage..... as an aside, where did all the evicted Chinese end up? Scattered to the four corners of Bangkok or did they find a place to keep their community alive?.....

[@BangkokPat]

They would have all ended up with compensation for their properties, quite a few were well off anyway so they just moved elsewhere.

[@richardtownsends3187]

As always a well researched and delivered video. Even having lived and been to many of the places you talked about I learn more good history about those places by watching. Keep up the good and valuable work. Best of luck

[@SidewinderUKG]

Excellent Pat, perfect timing to capture those tramlines exposed, your channel is very good.

[@Goldeneast11]

I loved the old Washington Sq. The old Bourbon Street Restaurant, people in this area. Simply a great Neigbourhood with hardly any tourists around

[@luceinbattaglia9425]

Interesting story as usual. You’re an ark of Bangkok knowledge master bkk Pat!🔝👏😉🙏💚🇹🇭

[@BangkokPat]

Thanks! 😃😻

[@luceinbattaglia9425]

Greetings and appreciation from Sicily👏🔝🙏💙🇹🇭

[@fatboyslim3550]

Always a great channel really interesting, always look forward to your videos. Thank you from the uk 🇬🇧

[@ragga_muffin_84]

Perfect timing, been rained off today due to the fine British weather, sit here with my morning coffee watching this

[@dalesmith5888]

Don't even think about vanishing, Pat. We need more of these videos!

[@RasheedKhan-he6xx]

Love this video! In the mid 2000s I used to go to a club called Bed or Beds? Had beds around the dance floor to lounge on. Really great place but I heard it closed down or maybe the concept just got old? Also there was a jazz bar called Brown Sugar. Didn't find it last time I visited in fact all of Sarasin Road looks quite different. Now that I'm thinking about it, in the early nineties the Dusit Thani hotel had a basement nightclub with a model spaceship that flew around the room and at the entrance to Sukhumvit Soi 10 or 11 there was a drinks bar built into and around a tree. Both it and its owner were landmarks. He once told me the richest man in Thailand had made his fortune selling the little paper umbrellas they put on cocktails. And I believed him! 😂 What else lets see, oh yes a roller-skating restaurant. This was perhaps a little out of town? Remember going with my parents as a very young child in the 80s. It was a huge sprawling open air restaurant and all the servers were on rollerskates. Good memories. 😊

[@redpilldenmark5741]

Was it Bed Supperclub?

[@LungAnt]

Amazing video!! Well done Pat!

[@warrenpugh3182]

Great vid again Pat. Love your work mate. Fantastic insight to the history of the big mango. 🥭 keep em coming .👍

[@BangkokPat]

Thanks Warren 🐱

[@kleerogers]

I like your chanel better than any other channel related to Thailand, you really do your research, keep it up!!!!

[@TheMoebius72]

Another great video about Vanishing Bangkok great work again Pat you the best. I did not know that Bangkok had a tram system back in the days I learn everytime something new about the history of Bangkok. Nice to see the different between a street how it look before and how it looks now. Too bad some building are gone forever.

[@BangkokPat]

Thanks! 😃 No trace left of any trams in Bangkok. A few are on display in various locations but at street level, nothing really except along Lak Mueaung Road opposite the grand palace.

[@TrevsTravelTales]

I remember going to the President Cinema in !985 and stood up for the national anthem for the first time, watched a Thai Movie called Kampuchea, you could hear People crying. Great back then to get out of the Sun for a couple of Hours, watch a Tear Jerker and then back to the Hot Streets, back to boston inn for a swim, shower smoke and out for dinner, then a Beer in a few Bars, Corner Bar, Kings Corner, and Queens Castle about 11pm, no luck off to Thermae, Jobs done. Thanks again Pat, a lot of Memories.

[@bkkmj4250]

RIP Washington Square - so many great drunken memories at the Silver Dollar (and even the Sportsman too) Thx Pat! 🙏

[@1greenMitsi]

you make me nostalgic for places Ive never been and times I never lived Old places just have so much character, I often find myself thinking what a shame when you show old photos. Never knew MOS had a club in bangkok that flopped very interesting.

[@krungthepper1370]

Definitely remember shopping at Villa in the 80s and 90s. There was a video shop in the same shopping center called Zebra? that had American shows and movies.

[@jeffchng88]

Great effort in finding and putting together all those old photos & footage .. very educational .. thank you very much for your time and efforts for making all these clips and videos available to all.. 🙏👍

[@DigitalNomadInvestor]

It was impossible to talk to anyone inside of Ministry. The sound system they bragged about was too overpowering. You not only heard the music, you felt the music. I never went back.

[@SuphanburiFCEnglish]

Another winner, Pat. Brings back memories of liquid lunches in and around Washington Square and taking friends to the Mambo cabaret..

[@senianns9522]

My first time in Bangkok was in 1973. I remember the lack of cars and I remember the taxi from Don Muang Airport moving quite quickly! I wish I had taken photos! Buying film and later developing film was not cheap! Alas! Good stories Pat!

[@jamesgraham446]

Phenomenal as always. I have previously commented that i thought your presentation and style is Palinesque. May i suggest you consider something like 'Around Bangkok in 80 days' ?

[@BangkokPat]

Palin is a legend and his 80 Days series fantastic. A few years ago I read his biography and the story of how they shot those programmes. There is a Palin connection to this video as the Sukhumvit Theatre burned down during a showing of 'The Holy Grail'

[@johnkilmerstone]

Every time I look at those old photos or videos of the Bangkok's bygone days, I always have a strong penchant to be teleported back in time and experience all of those establishments (some that I had known or visited) which have vanished forever (I'm sure I'm not the only one). It was a very different world. Another thought-provoking and evocative account of Bangkok's past. Great work, Pat!

[@willsmith39]

Bangkok Pattenborough

[@deplorabled1695]

Hahaha too right. The voice we all need!

[@LonglingEriksen]

you are getting better and better. Loved it. Also loved the condo in the Origin. Thanks

[@stevemorrisanamericaninasia]

Arrived BKK. Dinner or Lunch on me if of interest. I am at the Landmark Hotel until March 1st. Loyal subscriber who simply wants to extend greetings.

[@ThairishTimes]

Ain’t nobody better than Bangkok Pat

[@BangkokPat]

Are you quoting that famous line from the soul classic ''Ain't Nobody'' ? If so I'm proud of ya mate.

[@jonhobson3592]

Great & interesting video again 😊

[@Geoffreyboucher]

Bloody fantastic video again Pat😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@foodtaliban]

I went to MOS on my first visit to BKK, (2002) I remember the elevated dance floor in a "boxing ring," dancing lady boys, One More Time by Daft Punk was playing and that the police closed it down. 🕺

[@scandicdream]

Hehe. Daft punk was all over the place in ‘01…😊

[@grantbangkok]

Me too, Only went once and it was raided by the boys in brown

[@scandicdream]

@@grantbangkok I got lucky, didn’t have to go through all that….They used to do it all over the place, it was a real hassle…..stressful 😉

[@newhorizon4066]

The disappearance of BKK tram system seemed not to have bothered the populace too much because...Though that was before my time, my guess is who need trams when we have songthaews? (Though quite absent in Pat's vlogs,) they fill in the gaps left between city buses and pricey fai fa (Skytrain, MRT, etc.) A feature in the daily life of the poor/working class, they are also an quintessential part of public transportation, especially in the outskirts of the capital as well as in the provinces.

[@AsiaInsider-eh7rz]

Excellent stuff Pat, maybe as a flip you could look at places which have survived the test of time, there's not many but I'm sure there's some, the Miami and Nana Hotels spring to mind even if they've been renovated.

[@7mpest]

Another top quality video! Thanks Pat. Would love to see some more info on the little lanes around Soi 11, including the old Swiss Hotel, Suk 11, Cheap Charlie’s etc…

[@BangkokPat]

Best take a walk if you're in the area! Not really much down there to be honest, apart from what you see on the maps.

[@stephenpriest4711]

Another amazing video showing the history of this great city. If you look at the segment showing the Trocadero Hotel, you will see that next door is the offices for BOAC (British Airways), and on the street is, I believe, an Aston Martin BD5 with UK Plates, and behind it, an Austin A40 estate car, 2 historic English cars, in the middle of Bangkok.

[@BangkokPat]

Well spotted Stephen, I hadn't looked that closely.

[@IAm-NotHear]

Thank you, Pat. I love these videos.

[@BangkokPat]

Thanks for supporting! 😻😻

[@wigalert]

I love the old footage of Bangkok

[@BangkokPat]

Cheers and thank you 😻

[@thepretenda]

I love the level of production and all the information. The captions, the Bangkok Pat man make this very easy to follow. We only had four days in Bangkok for Christmas 2023 and had to leave without enough time to explore everything. These videos by Bangkok Pat help me explore more and appreciate this great city. I'm so happy and appreciative of your effort Mr Bangkok Pat! When I go back to Bangkok, I'll be so prepare after watching months of Bangkok Pat's documentaries!

[@timjenkins8538]

You should really start up your own Podcast, Pat. You could include stories about Bangkok, interviews with other Thailand explorers, travel guides etc. I think it would do really well!

[@BangkokPat]

Livestream very soon