-- Y'day., (05th.), my Elderly & frequently visiting Am. friend visited CHINATOWN RAMA.,* and reorted it as being v.busy;
- However, he believes that the better time to visit is between OPENING at approx. 11.30.hrs. and 13.30.hrs., his reason being that afterwards it may become fuller with elderly Chinese who use it as a meeting & a chat-place.

-- E&OE. as reported speech.

-- Postings: this thread #20., 84., 139. etc..

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Is this the well-known one in China Town (where you enter through back corner of some large open-front shop)? I think it's better not to refer to cinemas by their names (confusing) but instead by their locations. I mean, I don't recall that they even display their names.

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1. - Howmany other 'well-known' such cinemas are there in ChinaTown?
2. - That is why I try and include a reference to former postings, so that anyone confused can refer back for further info..

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You're right--I thought there was just one suck cinema in Chinatown, but I thought maybe there was some second one named Chintown Rama. I still can't keep the names straight--the only way I think of them as by their location--like "the one by the Saphan Kwai skytrain stop" etc.

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-- That would be the PHAHON CINEMA, wouldn't it?
- Posting in this thread #29..
-- But agreed, whatever it takes to remember them.

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-- Today,(08th.), evening I dropped-in to the CHALERM GIAT CINEMA on Lat Ya rd., (by KING TAKSIN the GT. CIRCLE.),; earlier postings in this thread: #97., 105., 111. etc.;
- ETA.: approx. 17.55.hrs. ;
- Adm'n.: 50.oo.Bh., my tkt. was stamped #052., presumably that shewing the tkt. numbers sold sofar on that day?
- Film shewn was ortho-sexual porn. with more suggested than actually shewn;
- May be as many as a score of spectators?
- A couple or three katoeys were working the block of seats on the spectators' RIGHT; but otherwise little activity that I could see;
- I left at around 18.30.hrs., and walked to BTS. Wongwiang Yai. As an aside I saw two of these new & four-coach trains standing idle beyond the stn.; our train to Nat'l. Stadium soon became the usual 'Standing room only.'!

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For any fans of the Prince, you better get your licks in soon. Frankly, I don't know how much longer the place will exist.

Physically, it's literally falling apart. I'm not even sure it's safe in there, with falling ceiling panels the norm.

There has been no maintenance for decades, and I wouldn't expect any soon since whoever owns it is just passing the days until he gets kicked out by the land owner (the Crown Property Bureau, which owns the whole block).

Undoubtedly, the whole area will eventually be redeveloped into something more profitable for the Crown's purse. That will be a sad day, which I fear could be coming soon.

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