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Trocadero Hotel still there
- September 6, 2005 From A New Guide to Bangkok, Second Edition,
compiled by Kim Korwong and Javid Rangthong, Hatha Dhip
Company, 1950: Trocadero Hotel, Suriwongse Road, telephone
30462 - This hotel is situated near the corner of Suriwongse
Road and New Road, in the business section of Bangkok, and
one of the largest hotels in town. |
 (Photo: A New Guide to Bangkok, Second Edition, 1950) |
(Photo: 2Bangkok.com)
(Photo: 2Bangkok.com)
| Today the Trocadero Hotel is Bangkok equivalent of Hong Kong's Chungking Mansion with utilitarian shops jammed into every nook of the ground floor and rooms in the upper floors. Still, the hotel promotes its long history with free postcards (above) that features a photo of the hotel from the 1920s (right). |  |
Question: Is there anyone at your hotel who can give me an idea of what the hotel was like in the 1950s?
I stayed at the Trocadero Hotel as a child, am writing about it in a memoir, and would love to know
what type of a place it was back then…
e.g. was it a top rated hotel?
what type of people stayed there?
was it then also in the heart of the business district?
Am I correct that there were suites and a small zoo or place for animals (birds, snakes etc.) at the bad?
Thanks for anything you can share.
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