I found these two old videos on Youtube, which were made in 2009, outside Goodboys.
Its enough to make you weep!
I found these two old videos on Youtube, which were made in 2009, outside Goodboys.
Its enough to make you weep!
Last edited by Moses; May 17th, 2018 at 14:31. Reason: embedding video
dab69 (May 18th, 2018)
I'm weeping! What a change. I had forgotten how alive it was back then.
Another video of Sunee when it was the greatest gay place and yes the difference between then and now is unbelievable......
https://youtu.be/Au4N5zUeEoc
"In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king"
Originally Posted by francois
Nice reminder 'gerefan' but let's face it, we may as well weep for Pattayaland soi 1-3, especially soi 1, the whole of the Day/Night area which had as many venues as Sunee does now back in the day, including a row of 6 karaoke/dance clubs, Saphan Kwai around Soi 20, the two main gay areas in Chiang Mai, Paradise Complex in Phuket, Soi 6 Silom/Surawong...and soon to be Soi Twilight, Bkk..... ALL fallen away dramatically over the last decade.
Only area to buck the trend? One Soi in Jomtien it seems!!
Your memory is playing tricks...it was NEVER the 'greatest' anything..........ever! But at times from late 90's to around 2005/6-ish, it was as you righty say 'unbelievable' but for ALL the wrong reasons......
My memory is quite vivid and after living here now and through the peak of Sunee I have long since stopped making moral judgements......yes it has died like so many other gay places in L.O.S. but it remains if in memory only a fantastic place.
"In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king"
You can live with your limits of what were peaks/acceptable behaviour/moral judgements and I'll live with mine, but we can agree on one thing, we have our own memories of when Sunee was indeed a fantastic place, maybe for different reasons/different time scale and leave it at that.
Personally, mine was from 2005 through 2012 as their best times, as the underage and addicts/urchins/thugs had been swept away and in their place was a vibrant welcoming and very busy area with lots of gogo and host bars. For the 2000-2005 period, the Day/Night area 3 Sois was far-and-away my favourite hang-out as it had the whole range of attractions, Agogos, host bars, karaokes, dance clubs with plenty freelance boys who didn't work in the gogos, live music pub, massage, and hotels/guesthouses.
Despite it's more recent flurry of closures (Crazy pub/Duks/Yayas/Come In/Blue Chilli/Marine/AllOfMe/NewQueens...TingTongRed etc etc..) Sunee remains my main area for visiting even now, and as I only come for 10-12 days of a Thailand trip at a time to Pattaya, there's more than enough entertainment/interest for me in it's current format, for me it hasn't died.....just yet, although for long-termers/expats it might be a different story. So as long as the 4 Agogs, Euro Boys, Forest Bar, Ouds, Diamond, Eden, Rainbow, Sky, Double Shot, Green Chair/sunee bar, Good Boys, One Bar, Elephant, continue to trade I'll still be there.
Wow, Sunee, when it used to have people and open bars in it ! Feels like a LONG time ago now. And gotta feel sorry for that poor baby elephant getting dragged around the bars every night just so the owner can make some baht :-( Unless of course he's a party elephant and then I guess he loves it - but I'm guessing NOT !
But did you feel any sympathy for the elderly elephant in the white shirt who emerges from GoodBoys in video 2?
I feel a great deal of sympathy for those two older white guys in the end of the video, but maybe in a different way. My feeling is more like: Good for him/them that he/they are having a good time there. There are quite a few videos of those places on Youtube from back in time, and even though I guess those places are/were full of farangs too, you only see the young Thai guys in the videos. Seems to be the etiquette for those video-makers :-)But did you feel any sympathy for the elderly elephant in the white shirt who emerges from GoodBoys in video 2?
But nice videos. Thanks! I only began visiting Thailand much later. Sunee is indeed different today. It seems a bit like the negative effect of internet trade. The internet trade drains the Main Street of manys towns for life and commercial activities. Since people now connect online, same things happens with this kind of social life and commercial activities, maybe?
None at all, SG! That was me back then.
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