This is Part 4 of a 4 part post.
19 X-Size
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Sister bar to X-Boys, X-Size opened in November 2006, located upstairs on the left side of the soi, just after Dream Boy, above the site of the original Fresh Boy and the long-surviving pool bar. Not very big, it often got fairly packed. Remarkably for such a small bar, they also managed to fit-in a glass cubicle for their shower shows. X-Size closed around September 2018. Pictured below in 2016 with its new signage, which was a lot less appealing than the original sign.
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20 Red Massage
Some might still remember the Red Massage which opened in February 2007 deep on the left-hand side of the soi, past Dream Boy and the old Fresh Boys. It met its demise in November of 2009 and was almost immediately replaced by the Mario Massage.
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21 Mario Massage
The Mario Massage would have a decent run from the time that it opened in December 2009 until it closed in mid-2015. I can’t testify to the quality of its massage or other services, but it obviously had its fans.
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22 Maxis
Maxis opened on Soi Twilight in April of 2008, a decade after Dick’s. With it’s opening, there began the debate as to which one actually provided better food, a better atmosphere and better value for money. Opinions differed, but a bit of competition is usually a good thing. Maxis definitely won on the lighting, in my opinion.
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23 Bangkok Massage
The Bangkok Massage had only marginally more to do with massage than the Bunny Massage had to do with bunnies. The third massage parlour to open on Soi Twilight, it occupied the upstairs digs that had previously been X-Man, and had been the New Man a go-go bar before that, opening in June 2008. Pictured below at the time of its opening with its gentler look, before Soi Twilight went ultra-neon.
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And again in 2014 with their more familiar look.
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The Bangkok Massage shared ownership with the X group of bars and made the move to Patpong 2 when Soi Twilight closed.
24 Siam Angel Boy
When the original Fresh Boy (Fresh Boy X) went over the cliff in July 2008, it was almost immediately replaced by the Siam Angel Boy. Customers on Soi Twilight must have been looking for Siamese boys of the non-angelic kind, though, because the bar had failed and closed-down by January 2009. How many remember it?
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25 The Pool Bar (After Dream Boy)
The old Fresh Boy / Siam Angel Boys didn’t seem particularly lucky for the A Go-Gos that operated there. After the Siam Angel Boys returned to wherever is that Siamese Angels come from, the site was quickly taken-over in February 2009 by what looked like a temporary pool bar.
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Temporary, however proved to be a long, long time. The nameless pool bar, alone out of all venues, would make a success out of that location, staying until the end of Soi Twilight, closing in February 2019. It even, eventually, sprouted a small bar out front. It was a good place to meet boys of a certain type.
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Seen above in May 2017, with the entrance to Dream Boy in the background.
26 Balls
Balls, The Sports Bar, which stood at the rear of the soi as it veered right towards Rama IV, was never really a hot spot. Owned by the same chaps who owned Dick’s, it was eventually taken-over by Hot Male in 2015, becoming the Hot Male beer garden.
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27 Ocean Boy
Ocean Boy opened in the old Future Boy location in October 2010, picking-up many of the old Future Boy staff. Its stable of boys, though, was nothing too exciting and it kicked the bucket somewhere around March of 2012. Their signage was an odd mesh of the best and worst elements of the old Future Boy signs. Pictured below in November 2010.
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And again in November 2011 after the bar beer opened on its veranda
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28 Blue Man
Some will remember the Blue Man bar beer that opened on the Rama IV end of Soi Twilight in 2011.
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29 Scorpion Bar
Carrying-on the growth of street-level life, the Scorpion Bar, co-owned by Chai Pinit, former bar boy and author of Bangkok Boy, opened in late 2011 deep in the soi, on the right hand side, past Ocean Boy.
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And Chai Pinit being a stud daddy...
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It was the growth of the bar beers and the street-level activity that really gave Soi Twilight so much of its flavour. I think the current Twilight Zone on Patpong 2 would be much-improved by the re-opening of the Scorpion.
30 Zeus
Zeus was the last A Go-Go to open on Soi Twilight, launching in July, 2013 in the vacant Ocean Boy site, which had once been Future Boy. Whatever aspirations their name might have suggested, it wasn’t to be. They held their last shows in December of 2014, before closing for renovations. By mid-February, they had given-up the pretence. No new venue would open in that location. No further A Go-Gos would open on Soi Twilight. As an aside, their statue of Zeus was pretty bad.
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31 Hot Male Beer Garden
The Hot Male Beer Garden took-over the venue from the closed Balls Sports Bar in mid-June 2015, shortly after the two little bar beers across the soi opened.
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They carried-out some additional decoration a year later, but it never really emerged as a major hotspot. Whether or not the Rama IV end of Soi Twilight could ever have emerged as a popular drinking and dining area, we shall never know for this was the first bit of Soi Twilight to face the wrecking ball in 2019. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
Here ends our walk through Soi Twilight.
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