Published by sideshowBOB on May 31st, 2008
in Main.
June 3rd is the day folks. Excuse the 2 day blunder and the lack of blogging. Just a ton of stuff going on I have not been on the keyboard much. So Tuesday June 3rd is the day. We will open that day at 4:00pm. This will not be a big party but just merely getting open. As if that is not hard enough. We will be making plans soon for a grand opening party sometime during the month of June. Stay tuned for that. If you are willing and able though - come by on the 3rd and buy a beer. We need to pay rent.
If you look down soi mango now you should see a big Heineken sign and as of tonight the Big Mango Bar sign. Hopefully you can’t miss where the place is now.
Continue reading ‘Opening Day and more coups…’
Published by pmmp on May 30th, 2008
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Well, those of you who took the ‘over’ won the bet. Due to some very strange circumstances that we will surely reveal in good time we will be two days late with our opening.
The ’soft’ opening of the new Big Mango Bar will be Tuesday, June 3rd. More details will follow but wanted to let everyone know the current status. Location is here and current site progress is here if you are so interested. Also, other notable events that have happened on June 3rd in History including Tony Curtis’ birthday can be found here.
More to come…
-pmmp
Published by sideshowBOB on May 28th, 2008
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I just finished reading Reefer Men. Great read - I have no way of knowing how factual it all is but it seems to be pretty accurate from the stories I have heard. The book is a great read since it gets into a lot of the history of the weed trade, the travails of the DEA and crosses into many countries covering a huge cast of interesting people. Thailand is only one part of the story. I am sure people that were in Thailand during the 70s and 80s would have more to say on the matter but for me it was a thrilling read. I love the revealing details about how America’s war on drugs in many cases actually forced the price of drugs up which in turn made the trade even more lucrative and afforded the drug runners even more profit which they could turn around and use to create even more sophisticated techniques. Nice.
Continue reading ‘Reefer Men vs Pregnant Man’
Published by pmmp on May 26th, 2008
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Last night was a bit brutal. A friend’s last night so we went pretty hard starting in Silom and Patpong for the F1, then to Cowboy, and then to Nana. Pretty standard stuff EXCEPT for the most idiotic and annoying policy I’ve ever heard of in a GoGo.
Continue reading ‘What? I can’t use my phone?’
Published by BigBabyKenny on May 25th, 2008
in Reader Submissions.
Suthisan is a small group of GoGo bars on Suthisan Rd. near the Saphan Khwai BTS stopi.
I had my handheld GPS with me during my last visit and recorded the latitude and longitude. You can cut and paste the coordinates into the search box at maps.google.com and the exact location will come up on the map.
N13 47.327 E100 33.022
I was told that it used to be an area that catered to U.S. servicemen during the Vietnam war but today it has a 99% Thai clientele.
Continue reading ‘User’s Guide to Suthisan by BigBabyKenny’
Published by sideshowBOB on May 24th, 2008
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Been some questions on the previous posts so thought I would address it here.
new way forward - part 1 and part 2
Lot of good info, thanks much folks!
Hat tip to Julian on the twitter idea. awesome.
Here u go: http://twitter.com/bigmangobar/
Continue reading ‘Twitter, email list and so on…’
Published by pmmp on May 24th, 2008
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One of the headlines today. The rumor mill is really cranking away on this latest story so I thought I would send the link to the story in the Nation. I received an sms yesterday from a friend about it and noticed that there was a crowd on soi 4 yesterday by this condo. Here’s the link:
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/read.php?newsid=30073829
Details are still a bit fuzzy but I’m sure it will be the topic of conversation in the local watering holes today.
-pmmp
Published by sideshowBOB on May 23rd, 2008
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You can find part one of The new way forward here.
There are a ton of comments and thought I would do another post to answer some of them. Some of this might be too much information but let me defer to the title of the blog for an explanation. I would also add that the purpose of announcing the strategy was to make sure people heard it from us first and to solicit feedback. In no way do we think this is a slam dunk but we have done the math and feel like it is better than the alternative or the traditional beer bar model. I won’t get into comparing this with a go-go bar because it makes no sense to do so.
Continue reading ‘The new way forward… Part 2′
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