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Hermanolobo
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from Stickman's Weekly - 21st March 2004
There is a rumour doing the rounds about the future of Soi Cowboy and that it will be redeveloped into something completely different - and even that the deal has been done already! Aa the rumour goes, the deadline is set for about 18 months from now. This could be one of those silly rumours like Nana Plaza being turned into a car park for the Landmark Hotel, a rumour that has been going around for 20 odd years. While my bet is that it is just that, a rumour, one cannot afford to discount it entirely because just look at what happened to both Clinton Plaza and Sukhumvit Square! What started as rumours went on to eventuate.
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 8:20 am on Mar. 22, 2004
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Vancouver Jay
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Stickman has been wrong so often and on so many different topics and in so many different orders of magnitude that it's really not worth reading him.
And look at that snippet: a few sentences of breathless rumour-mongering followed by an equal dose of equivocation and back-peddling. Yup, that's our boy...
If you want a fresh read, have a look here:
http://www.mangosauce.com/
Good times. Good times.
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 9:02 am on Mar. 22, 2004
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Hermanolobo
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Cheers ! I did not know that site ?
Well I just hope that Stickman is wrong AGAIN?
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 10:19 am on Mar. 22, 2004
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Arcadius
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This 'rumour' is probably just speculation - but it's certainly plausible speculation. Problem for Cowboy, now that the MRT station has opened up alongside, is that it occupies one of the choicest bits of real estate in the city - right where the MRT and BTS meet, plumb in the middle of Suk, just one stop from Sala Daeng. The property boys MUST be sniffing around.
Wouldn't be at all surprising if the owners get an offer they can't refuse - and possibly quite soon. No shortage of finance around now. At any event, it needn't amaze if 5 years hence a thumping great office block sits where Cowboy is now. I think that ordinary commercial pressures are much more of a threat to the Suk P4P scene than anything the govt might do - Clinton & Suk Square were just early casualties.
But the GGs will just migrate to pastures new (probably in 'the zone'), and more venues will materialise down the Suk sois, so what the hell... So long as the demand is there, BKK will supply it.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 10:38 am on Mar. 22, 2004
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DrLove
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What we have to understand is that Stickman himself picks up rumours from the street and forwards them on his website.
He's just a messenger..
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 8:53 pm on Mar. 22, 2004
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hzink
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But what does it matter, in the end - as has been repeatedly pointed out, and as we have witnessed -- we have no effect on such events, and they will either come to pass, or they will go to sleep.
So, what's the point in discussing rumors?
Harry
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Bangkok Women : Meet Beautiful Thai Girls
Posted on: 1:53 am on Mar. 23, 2004
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Bangkoksexydotcom
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When I was down in Patong the diffrent Bar Soi was about to close all the time. Lets face it one guy owns the street and then he rents it out to someone that rents it out to bars. If the big boss get a good offer he will see or use other means to get them out. I met the grandchild of the familly NANA she is a cute hippie and has nothing to do with the girls there (i think)
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 12:19 pm on May 15, 2004
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hoksipkau
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Arcadius is correct, in that, Soi Cowboy is adjacent to one of the few intersections of subway and the BTS. Properties's near to this intersection are all going up in value. Soi Cowboy's days are numbered, enjoy before all the owners give into insane offers for their properties.
chok dee,
hoks
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Thai Girls : Meet Active Thai Girls
Posted on: 4:00 am on May 20, 2004
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Ballsburstin
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Many of the owners on Soi Cowboy are already "diversified" into other "venues," so I think it's very plausible that when the offers come, they will be too hard to refuse. Won't surprise me to see the bulldozers roll in the next 5 years or so, but it will be an historically sad one, as it's still one of my favorite "small town Isaan" haunts. 
- Balls
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 12:56 pm on May 20, 2004
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BKK Banger
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Soi Cowboy may survive but the bars behind on the corner are for the chop.
They sit on a site formerly known as the Thai Daewoo Building and now known as J&P Mansions. The foundations and diaphragm wall are in for the basement to a 40+ storey building. Halted in 1997 due to the crunch it was sold to a Yakuza (alleged) from Eastern Japan.
The MRT entrance is actually built in one corner of the basement and is designed to be integrated into this development.
The bar licences were handed out by a subsidiary / subleasor and residents may remember Sukhumvit Square..............................
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 5:38 am on June 18, 2004
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