-- On fri., (22nd.), a'noon. - after looking-around for sources of 'Horny Goat Weed.' - and being in CHINATOWN I decided to venture into the one remaining suck-cinema there.
- name: MAXIMA CINEMA* - CHINATOWN,
- addr.: 408, Tnn. Yaowarat,
Samphanthawong, BKK.;
- nrest. landmark: WHITE ORCHID HTL.;
-- Google 'Earth.' co-ords.: roughly 100-30-36.E.x13-44-26.N.;
- dir'ns.: from Soi Yaowa Phanit walk with the tfc. for approx. 22yds.; you should see the cinema on yr. LHS. and roughly op. to Soi 12., and opp. to JAWARAT TOURS; or it's approx. 110yds. from the WHITE ORCHID HTL and on opp. side of the rd..
-- adm'n.: 50.Bh..
- Walk UP the stairs, behind the box office, and follow the signs around to yr. LEFT until you come-to curtained entrances/exits.
- Inside the seating is in two blocks:
1.- Nrer. screen are 5 rows of 20 seats;
2.- Behind the cross-cinema aisle are 7 rows of 20 seats, most of wch. are in fairly good cond'n., (gen'lly. better than in THE PRINCE CINEMA.),.
- There is no air-cond.; instead the air is moved-around by fans on the floor - until yr. eyes become adjusted to the gen'l. gloom watch-out for them.
-- Films shewn were non-porn..
- I'd been advised that that cinema was patronised largely by the younger Ch./Th. men on the look-out for 'Sugar Daddies.'; that may be so but I saw none of either!
- Most of the action - possibly a score of spectators present during mid to late a'noon. - was in the back row against the rear wall.
- When I left the space in front of the box office was given-over to an eatery.
--* MORE recent correspondance,(this thread #139.), has reported that that cinema's name is not Maxima but CHINATOWN RAMA..
-- Usual disclaimer. -- Bibi. --
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