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A Glimpse of Thailand
October, 2001 - things beautiful, strange, odd, and interesting - Back to A Glimpse of Thailand main page Back to cityrain.com main page If you like "A Glimpse of Thailand," you might also like 2bangkok.com. |
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This is from May, 2001. The bridge on Phaya Thai Road was being expanded (extra lanes on either side). The four large multi-headed elephant sculptures that adorn the bridge were encased in steel and carefully lifted to the side. The bridge work is now finished and the sculptures have been returned and covered with a new veneer. Left: One of the elephant ornaments under the Skytrain tracks. To the left is the bridge and another smaller sculptural element can be seen encased in steel and ready to be moved. The Discovery Center tower is directly behind the elephant. Right: A closer look. The entire sculpture is approximately 20 feet tall. |
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Final dispatch
from China: I'll finish my August, 2001 China photos with this. I usually try not to feature typical tourist-type shots, but there's just something about the scale and mystery of the wall. Even in this photo you can see it snaking across the furthest mountains in the background. |
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 Blast
from my past - Stopping for gasOctober 22, 2001 It is 1991, somewhere between Hat Yai and the Malaysian border, and the taxi I am riding in stops for gas. The woman on the right is using a hand crank to pump gas from a barrel through a clear tube into a makeshift gas tank in the back of the taxi. Moments later the car started to roll downhill (apparently there was no emergency brake) and it took all our strength to keep it from slipping into a drainage ditch. Back then another war was going that pitted the U.S. and its allies against a foe who claimed he was defending Islam. Once I crossed into Malaysia, I noticed how many men had adopted Saddam Hussein-style mustaches and that Saddam's 'inspiring' autobiography was on sale everywhere. In Georgetown, gleeful bicycle-rickshaw drivers informed me how the U.S. would experience another Vietnam in Iraq. Even though this photo is barely ten years old and printed on Kodak paper, I was surprised to find the colors so faded. The whole roll looks like old, old photos of people I don't really know anymore... must be the climate. |
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Dispatch from China: A poor photo of one of the many inspirational signs around Beijing preparing everyone for the 2008 Olympics. I like the internet motif and the term "Beijingers." |
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Working on the pylons Workers install electric lines on the new Godzilla-scale pylons crossing over the Wiphawadee-Ratachada area (near where the Hopewell pillars stand). |
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Dispatch from China: Right down to the color motif and bow tie, this Chinese chain of fast food chicken outlets operates throughout China. The Yonghe website (all in Chinese) shows a few of the Chinese colonel's delicious-looking dishes. The branch pictured is around the corner from the new upscale shopping area on Wangfujing Street. The entire east side of Beijing is like a Singapore shopping area now. Something amusing: Colonel Sanders, General Tso Fuel International Tensions |
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Blast from the past: 50th Anniversary of HM The King's
Coronation 1996 marked the 50th anniversary of HM The King's accession to the throne. The celebrations included a series of commemorative arches in various architectural styles--many based on fantastic mythological themes replete with Thai motifs. This nighttime shot shows one of the arches that spanned a road near Sanam Luang. It is a series of clouds topped by royal symbols. The arches were eventually removed after the celebrations. |
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Dispatch from China: The green tubes in this photo are actually slides. For a small fee, tired tourists can get on a little cart and slide back down to the tour bus parking lot instead of negotiating their way down the treacherous wall again. I heard that the Mongol hoards loved the slide. |
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