Old Photos of Hua hin

Post by **Big Boy** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 9:00 pm

Sabai Jai,

Well worth waiting for - thank you very much. I am looking forward to the next installment.

Post by **Lev** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:32 pm

Here are some more, thanks again SJ:

Post by **buksida** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:41 pm

I've got an identical picture to that last one taken about a year ago ... where did all that concrete come from!

Post by **migrant** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:59 pm

Wow, the difference in the two pics says alot!

Post by **Randy Cornhole** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:39 pm

Two words spring to mind, Bloody and Hell..... More great pics, thanks....

Post by **Sabai Jai** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 10:31 pm

These are not so old, the Two views from Khao Hin Lek Fai (bit hazy as always), and one from the beach probably taken approx 1990, Melia and Grand still under construction, difficult to make out but i think City beach is there.

Any body remember when the Melia (now Hilton) opened?

Regards
SJ

Post by **The understudy** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 10:39 pm

Hi there revered sabai Lai aand Buksida!!!

To comment those wonderfull Pics from SJ in german: "Wahnsinn einfach der Wahnsinn!!!

Now slowly the Gap in Time is filling up from my last childhood visit in Hua Hin with my family in 1988/89 and my appearance again in Hua Hin in 1999 when I first entered Stamford University for a long stay in this Resort town in which I fell in Love with.

Migrant you are absolutely right. From SJ's and Buks's Panoramic Pics you can tell the diffrence. Geez! Hua Hin had changed.

To Y'all Nire Pics like that pleease?

Your's The understudy!!!!

Post by **Jim** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:03 pm

Just an alternative perspective - to me it looks like it's changed much less than I expected. There's a few, but not many, more high rise on the beach and Market Village has popped up, but otherwise it's all pretty much the same. Maybe progress is all an illusion? Or best seen from street level.

One of my old guide books has a shot on the beach, looking down towards Takiab. No Buddha, no Chinese Temple, no La Mer...just a bare building site. And horses on the beach. I'll try and scan it at the weekend.

Post by **Big Boy** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 7:37 pm

buksida's comparison with Sabai Jai's photo is really amazing. Things are quite quiet here in work on the run down to Christmas, so I've been sat studying the 2 photos for quite a while.

I can not find one building on either photo that is on the other photo.

sargeant · Post by **sargeant** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 7:44 pm

All my moaning about how fast this town was growing is explained in the photos on this thread and i echo Lomu it was a lovely sleepy little fishing village i hope the pics keep coming

Post by **Big Boy** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 8:13 pm

We've now sat down as a team, and have identified 3 buildings (circled - if you can call my artwork circles - in black)on both photos - can anybody identify any more?

Post by **dtyolmn** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 10:17 pm

Great pictures. I wish I could have visited in the 50's or 60's. There's nothing like Thailand.

Post by **caller** » Fri Aug 22, 2014 5:01 am

Thought I'd resurrect this old thread as I've scanned a few photos from a few years back. Not so old really, just back to 2000 - 2003. But a couple of photos do demonstrate some of the change that has taken place. I have a few more that I'll post when I fix my scanner!

This first photo is from January 2000 and taken from the City Beach hotel overlooking the Police Station and looking towards the junction of Damnoern Kasem and Phetchkasem Roads.

This was taken around mid-day looking down Naebkhehars Road towards Phetchkasem Road, where they meet at the Temple, taken from either the junction with Chomsin or Dechanuchit Roads. I always remember the dogs dawdling everywhere then. Not a lot of traffic either!

This next one was taken from my room at the Grand Hotel in 2003. Not so sure the same view still exists? Note the night market being set up, which if I recall rightly, only operated on a Thursday then?

I doubt this next scene has changed much? The original night market being set up, thought I'd catch the MIB on his bike as I looked towards the setting sun:

This view wouldn't have changed much either. The view from my room at what was then The Melia Hotel, before it got swallowed up by The Hilton. From 2000.

The view from Takiap looking towards the fishing boats in the creek. Has this changed? Again, from 2000.

Looking towards the Melia from the fiishing pier, in 2000.

And finally, a beach scene from 2000. To the right of the beach entrance.

Post by **Big Boy** » Fri Aug 22, 2014 7:14 am

Apart from the fact there aren't so many people now, they've just restored your last photo

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Seriously, always great to see old photos. Even though yours aren't so old, there are some huge changes.

Post by **Bamboo Grove** » Fri Aug 22, 2014 10:11 am

Thanks, caller. These photos remind me of the Hua Hin I moved to from Bangkok in early 2002.

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