Siam/Thailand old photos

[Fluke]

Just now, billybob said:

How do you get the photos to show up - every method I've tried so far has failed !

Download the photos and save then on your computer .

Press reply or open/create  a new post 

Click on the "choose files" at the bottom of the post .

Then go to the photo on your computer and double click the photo and it will upload to the post .

   

 

[Faraday]

Udon Thani 1972

 

[billybob]

Thanks @Fluke hopefully this will work. Here's a photo from the superb Nick Nostitz who sadly lives in exile now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Nostitz

[Fluke]

Street vendor, Bangkok 1934

[Rain]

Lovely thread.

Wonder where Fluke got this idea.

 

[Fluke]

On 9/19/2021 at 12:55 PM, Fluke said:

Miss Yingluck Shinawatra , 18 years old at orientation day , Chiang Mai 1985

1938 Prison inmates , Chaiyapum

[Lowseasonlover]

On 9/22/2021 at 8:39 PM, Rain said:

Lovely thread.

Wonder where Fluke got this idea.

Freakdoor

[Lowseasonlover]

British Burma river boat steamer about 1888

[Fluke]

Kroenburg 1664 ...............I mean , 

Bangkok Klong 1894 .

[Lowseasonlover]

Phuket City 1901

[Lowseasonlover]

Opening of station in Khon Kean 1941

[Fluke]

Teakdoor jail 

[Lowseasonlover]

1942 Bangkok floods

[Fluke]

Phuket ferry crossing 1950 

[Rain]

8 hours ago, Lowseasonlover said:

Freakdoor

Yep. That would be my guess. 

[gummy]

Just now, Rain said:

Yep. That would be my guess. 

simple copy and paste no doubt

[Hamosity]

On 9/19/2021 at 11:38 AM, JamesE said:

I think this was taken from just north of Golden Mount above the Phanfa Bridge. That first five-story, white building on the left is still there. That dog-leg building would be at the SW corner of Maha Chai and Ratchadamneon.

https://www.google.com/maps/@13.7560509,100.5040841,491m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en

Bangkok Pat has a few videos on YT tracing the old Bangkok  This photo is referenced 3:18 into this one:

 

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pmmNEsaDkXA/mqdefault.jpg

https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/doclist/images/mediatype/icon_2_youtube_x16.png

Bangkok: The Old City. Explored & explained. Then & Now: History, Temples, monuments, canals & more

 

 

 

 

[Hamosity]

1 minute ago, Hamosity said:

Bangkok Pat has a few videos on YT tracing the old Bangkok  This photo is referenced 3:18 into this one:

 

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pmmNEsaDkXA/mqdefault.jpg

https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/doclist/images/mediatype/icon_2_youtube_x16.png

Bangkok: The Old City. Explored & explained. Then & Now: History, Temples, monuments, canals & more

 

 

 

Apols  tried to embed the video but I don't know how to do that - can anyone help me out?  be much obliged.

the Ham

[Lowseasonlover]

13 minutes ago, Hamosity said:

Apols  tried to embed the video but I don't know how to do that - can anyone help me out?  be much obliged.

the Ham

 

[Fluke]

Maha-Chai Road . 1903

Looks like a Cowboy in the Soi  

[Fluke]

Taxi driver . Ubon, 1967

[Rain]

11 hours ago, Lowseasonlover said:

Have to say that Pat's expanding video project are rife with interesting and trivial historical tidbits. 

Well done, DJPat!  

[Fluke]

On 9/25/2021 at 7:31 PM, Rain said:

Have to say that Pat's expanding video project are rife with interesting and trivial historical tidbits. 

Well done, DJPat!  

You could ask him to drop by here ?

[Fluke]

 

  Thai troops in Paris at the end of WW1 

[Faraday]