Just relying on old Spartacus will lead to many omissions and wrong data.
It goes without saying that publications originally Thai will be better, the best knwon is the old TMOT=The Men Of TH series, some had listings as separate booklet, some had it in the main book. Beside these there were also small and once off booklets (all of course in the times www was hardly know-80ies, 90ies of last century). I now realise I must still have some of those-@home then, 11 hrs flying away from here.
Besides that the then TH gay magazines-there were loads once upon a time-are best for this, esp. the advertising.
When www came up many started to make listings for gay places-like replacing the old Spartacus. Every now and then I find a few and mostly they are totally out of date-but then things here in TH change quite fast. So for the years from around 2005/2010 you could try googling a few and check what they list for Pty. But then many avid readers here will also have good memories for that period.
Finally: I suppose you know about the other well known TH gay fora, this is mostly known as the bitchy one. KHun Lung GB=Gaybutton also runs his own and that one mostly centers on Pty. You may get some more info by also posting there: gaybuttonthai.com
I will/can only check when back home-around march and see if I, if then still needed, can make some scans of the TMOT listings and send to you. (I suppose that is nowhere to be found online? unless some other savvy in that field knows. Or the exquisite computerskills of the Canuck matt?
Map of Boystown from “Thai Scene” 1994. I corresponded with the author Michael Notcutt but he sadly died before the next edition which came out in 1998. I met the author of that, subsequent, edition in London and gave him some information about various bars. He wrote under the name of “Damon Hammer” but that was not his real name.
The map shows the position of "A Friends Club" which was half the width of "Panorama" which is there now.
An amazing thread. Just looking at the photos,and the layout maps with "business" names takes me right back there. Can almost experience the feeling, entering the soi and the anticipation of what the evening will bring! Excitement,joy, arousal, being truly alive.
But it's all gone,and will never be repeated anywhere! The party is well and truly over.
And it's interesting to note how brief Sunee's life was.
In 1996, there was one bar (Crazy boys?) It was almost empty when I investigated. Two years later, a flyer distributed at Jomtien's gay beach led me to return and there were a number of bars operating....one, I recall , was named "Nok."
The expansion continued but then the area was hit by allegations of underage mbs and other crimes. A few years later those particular problems were gone or at least being challenged....but by 2013 or so (my estimation) Sunee's popularity was declining even while Boyztown was just clinging on to its clientele.
The dye was cast and the closure of the shisha cafes in the area contributed mightily to the air of dereliction and darkness in the sois initially caused by the closure of Krazy Boys and Krazy Pub with their large neo signs.
pic says May 2010
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