How time flies. This is 30 years ago. I visited Thailand (Patong) for the first time as recently as 2009. But even that is getting to be a long time ago...
I arrived in Phuket for the first time in December 1987, at the tail end of a 10 month solo journey around the world. Dirt roads and rustic thatched hut type bars were common place. I returned in June 1992 and couldn't believe the changes that had occured in that short amount of time. I haven't been back to Phuket since, so seeing this footage has renewed those vivid memories for me. Thanks for sharing.
Wow great video...my first time in 1991...i remembar all'andata patong is beautiful....Now is change to much...but i like....and i hope camback after covid....a big hugs by italy 🇮🇹😀
Thanks for the vedio. My first visit too patong was 1993. I been there three to four times a year since then. Started living in patong since 2016 It has changed so much
Thanks for posting! I came first time in 1999 and stayed in Patong but it was already a lot busier than what is shown in your video although there were still fields in between Ratuthit and Nanai roads and a big muddy market where Jungceylon now sits! Nanai was still pretty quiet in 1999. Same as Dave - I never go to Patong now!
In 1998 I built house on the hillside off Nanai road. The plot was chosen because I assumed it would remain a safe and peaceful haven from the already bustling sea front and Soi Bangla. How wrong I was!
I was in Phuket Thailand 1992,, I hear "Billy" about 07:00 in video, I remember listening to his music then, and even bought cassette tape of "Billy". I still have it, I met a girl at Dimple Video lounge and we wrote each other and the letters stopped coming and I still want to find the sweet girl I met , her name was O Canta Wong and she was a bar tender at Dimple Video Lounge, I know Wong is Chinese name, but her Dad was Chinese and her mom was Thai, anyway if anyone has advice how I can find my sweet Angel O Camta Wong please message me on Google+. Jerry Don Jocoy is my name I am on Facebook,, Supet and Yomjong Siriganta were my taxi drivers, I wrote them too for a few years, and the last letter I wrote was before the tsunami maybe a year before,, but no response, thank you for the video I really lived Phuket, it was like small town feeling, and I truly loved it there ...
I moved to Thailand on Feb 3rd, 1993. I remember clearly how nice it was back then. I actually lived in Patong for my first year here. It was pleasant enough back then. I clearly remember to big field that is now paved over. What a horrible place is now!! I haven't been to Patong in a couple of years. If I never go there again, that suits me fine. Thanks for the video, Lars! Good memories. Too bad it turned out the way it did.
Great post. We first went to Phuket in 1991 and this post is very much how I remember it. Unlike everyone else I don't think it's a horrible place now. Nothing is permanent, populations grow and things change. I'm glad I have these memories.
While that is true, for younger people like me it’s still a bummer because we never get to experience how these places were back when they were raw and authentic and now it seems like every island and beach is becoming commercialized. At least put effort in preserving the native/local culture and natural beauty so future generations can enjoy it also. I was born in 99 which is way too late and now I wish I saw Thailand in the 70s and 80s
damn. my first visit was in 2004. So mad at myself now because I was ignorant in the 90s and easily could have gone to Thailand as often as I wanted. I was working Los Angeles California and the flights from LAX were and are still convenient.
It looked much like this when I lived here from 1997 to 1999. It's sad to see what a hellhole it has become with mass tourism and rampant overdevelopment.
i left for good in 2006, went to visit a freind two years ago, it was weird, it made me feel how the usa used to feel upon returning from thailand. people were rude, place was unlivable.
I went there in 1998 and thought it was paradise. went back every year since and it got worse each time. sad decline. full of criminals and controlled by gangsters
Greed island! I lived in Phuket Town 86 onwards! left in 95. Each time I went back It was progressively worse! I hate going back--ruined to say the least!!
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How time flies. This is 30 years ago. I visited Thailand (Patong) for the first time as recently as 2009. But even that is getting to be a long time ago...
I arrived in Phuket for the first time in December 1987, at the tail end of a 10 month solo journey around the world. Dirt roads and rustic thatched hut type bars were common place. I returned in June 1992 and couldn't believe the changes that had occured in that short amount of time. I haven't been back to Phuket since, so seeing this footage has renewed those vivid memories for me. Thanks for sharing.
Wow great video...my first time in 1991...i remembar all'andata patong is beautiful....Now is change to much...but i like....and i hope camback after covid....a big hugs by italy 🇮🇹😀
Thanks Khun Lars for posting this video!! It's like my memorial was playing again. miss it.
Thanks for the vedio. My first visit too patong was 1993. I been there three to four times a year since then. Started living in patong since 2016 It has changed so much
Thanks for posting! I came first time in 1999 and stayed in Patong but it was already a lot busier than what is shown in your video although there were still fields in between Ratuthit and Nanai roads and a big muddy market where Jungceylon now sits! Nanai was still pretty quiet in 1999. Same as Dave - I never go to Patong now!
In 1998 I built house on the hillside off Nanai road. The plot was chosen because I assumed it would remain a safe and peaceful haven from the already bustling sea front and Soi Bangla. How wrong I was!
Looks so much better than now ..
I was in Phuket Thailand 1992,, I hear "Billy" about 07:00 in video, I remember listening to his music then, and even bought cassette tape of "Billy". I still have it, I met a girl at Dimple Video lounge and we wrote each other and the letters stopped coming and I still want to find the sweet girl I met , her name was O Canta Wong and she was a bar tender at Dimple Video Lounge, I know Wong is Chinese name, but her Dad was Chinese and her mom was Thai, anyway if anyone has advice how I can find my sweet Angel O Camta Wong please message me on Google+. Jerry Don Jocoy is my name I am on Facebook,, Supet and Yomjong Siriganta were my taxi drivers, I wrote them too for a few years, and the last letter I wrote was before the tsunami maybe a year before,, but no response, thank you for the video I really lived Phuket, it was like small town feeling, and I truly loved it there ...
I moved to Thailand on Feb 3rd, 1993. I remember clearly how nice it was back then. I actually lived in Patong for my first year here. It was pleasant enough back then. I clearly remember to big field that is now paved over.
What a horrible place is now!! I haven't been to Patong in a couple of years. If I never go there again, that suits me fine.
Thanks for the video, Lars! Good memories. Too bad it turned out the way it did.
Yes, one huge field between Nanai road and Song Roy Pee. It was a natural flood plain, and the reason Patong now floods every wet monsoon season.
How at hell they destroy this paradise in so little time... i'm speechless...
Great post. We first went to Phuket in 1991 and this post is very much how I remember it. Unlike everyone else I don't think it's a horrible place now. Nothing is permanent, populations grow and things change. I'm glad I have these memories.
While that is true, for younger people like me it’s still a bummer because we never get to experience how these places were back when they were raw and authentic and now it seems like every island and beach is becoming commercialized. At least put effort in preserving the native/local culture and natural beauty so future generations can enjoy it also. I was born in 99 which is way too late and now I wish I saw Thailand in the 70s and 80s
Amazing Video
remember it like this, first went in september 1989.
damn. my first visit was in 2004. So mad at myself now because I was ignorant in the 90s and easily could have gone to Thailand as often as I wanted. I was working Los Angeles California and the flights from LAX were and are still convenient.
It looked much like this when I lived here from 1997 to 1999. It's sad to see what a hellhole it has become with mass tourism and rampant overdevelopment.
i left for good in 2006, went to visit a freind two years ago, it was weird, it made me feel how the usa used to feel upon returning from thailand. people were rude, place was unlivable.
thank you so much for your video
Ero lì nel 93 troppo bella patong no adesso
I went there in 1998 and thought it was paradise. went back every year since and it got worse each time. sad decline. full of criminals and controlled by gangsters
Good old times !!
Some of those diesel trucks and song teaouws are still running!!!
Greed island! I lived in Phuket Town 86 onwards! left in 95. Each time I went back It was progressively worse! I hate going back--ruined to say the least!!
5:50 that is Bangla street?
The god old times are back!
My first year 93
Ero lì...ero giovane e bella pure io😄