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The Nightingale-Olympic

Store Sportswear store

👍👍 This place transports you to the classic past. You can sense the 70s-90s atmosphere at this place. It freezes the time at that era. Many people say it's overrated but you have to keep in mind that it doesn't have any profits in the past years and the owners fight to keep this place alive. People often mention time, store,


Address

70 Tri Phet Rd, Wang Burapha Phirom, Phra Nakhon, Bangkok 10200, Thailand

Website

nightingaleolympic.com

Contact

+66 2 221 9733

Rating on Google Maps

4.10 (146 reviews)

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Working Hours

  • Saturday: 9 am to 6 pm
  • Sunday: Closed
  • Monday: 9 am to 5:30 pm
  • Tuesday: 9 am to 5:30 pm
  • Wednesday: 9 am to 5:30 pm
  • Thursday: 9 am to 5:30 pm
  • Friday: 9 am to 4:30 pm

Featured Reviews


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  • 4/5 Darcie DH K. 6 years ago on Google
    This place is right out of a Wes Anderson movie! It’s a step back in time to Bangkok’s first department store. The prices are outrageous. One dice cost 169 Baht! Many vintage games and instruments.
    4 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Daniel van H. 5 years ago on Google
    A loophole in time. Time froze here since 50 years. Everything is stuck in time and you wonder when Wes Anderson is going to show up. Like on every professional film set it's not allowed to take pictures, but that's the challenge then I guess.
    4 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Thammarith L. 4 years ago on Google
    This place transports you to the classic past. You can sense the 70s-90s atmosphere at this place. It freezes the time at that era. Many people say it's overrated but you have to keep in mind that it doesn't have any profits in the past years and the owners fight to keep this place alive.
    4 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Rebecca W. 1 year ago on Google
    Love this place! This isn't a department store, it's a time machine that transports you to the past with its store displays and merchandise. Maybe you can also call it an unintentional museum. I wonder when they stopped selling stuff and decided to keep most of their items instead for display. But I guess that's why the place is so special, as I don't think anything has changed since the 1960s-1970s. I also wonder how they pay their staff as the majority of items are not for sale. That said, I did purchase some inexpensive items. The staff might eye you warily when you enter but they're actually quite friendly and helpful. Do read up on their history before you go so you can understand what this gem of a place is all about. Oh and photography is not allowed, so just go and immerse yourself in the old school vibes of this past perfect emporium.
    3 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Kayne W. 7 years ago on Google
    Everything in here is from another time when my dad was a kid. It's quaint and worth a look if you like antiques and things that you're not likely to find anymore. I was also impressed with the baseball gloves and American culture in the store from that era. I was the only person in the store and I think they don't sell much. Maybe it should be turned into a museum
    3 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 3/5 veerachit j. 5 years ago on Google
    Very old it's keep their own signature for very long time I've understand because this place was a first mall in Bangkok but it's should be a museum soon because a product on this mall is too old to sale
    3 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Christopher R. 10 years ago on Google
    Entering Nightingale-Olympic is like walking through a time portal into the early 1960s. Most of the goods are from that era. A walk up the stairs to the second floor reveals a stock of old "Teisco" electric guitars, which we white-haired types remember from trips to E. J. Korvettes way back when. Two of the examples were self-amplified. It appears that the original boxes are available. Pricey - about 18,000+ Thai baht, which converts to somewhere around $560.00. Other goods are available from the same era. The store is not air-conditioned, which only adds to the time-warp feeling.
    3 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Jane N. 4 years ago on Google
    An old department store selling really old items from ‘70s and ‘80s. All sorts of things like instruments, tennis racquets, greetings cards, bras. Walk around, it’s an interesting place.
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Derek F. 6 months ago on Google
    Wonderful time capsule of 1970s merchandising.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Zoltan E. 9 months ago on Google
    I heard legends about the antiques in this place. But it is far from that. The third floor is locked down. The second is full with old and dusty sports-equipment. The first is full with even more stuff but so unorganized and so dirty that you have no taste to buy here. It is also ridiculously overpriced for 50-100 yrs old items. Who wants to buy open perfume bottles from decades ago or old yellow bra? Nothing nostalgic here. Just junk. No sales person ever asked me what I want while I was there. Not even a "hello". They were all just hanging there.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 3/5 Jamie W. 1 year ago on Google
    WILD place with old things however they will follow you around and check to make sure you didn’t steal anything if you are a foreigner! If that doesn’t bother you, definitely worth a visit
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Yih Puoh C. 4 years ago on Google
    Charming mall that kept in 1950-1970
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 rajchasate s. 3 years ago on Google
    Nice Facade building
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 wei c. 6 years ago on Google
    Like all the other comment said, if youre interetred in antiques, or just aged and delicate things and places, you cant miss it!

  • 4/5 Ben B. 5 years ago on Google
    Scared but awesome

  • 5/5 Mike Krause M. 10 months ago on Google
    Amazing place; don't forget to visit the museum on the second floor!

  • 3/5 Michael F. 6 months ago on Google
    thought it would be an interesting thing to see, and it was in some respects, but was mostly meh


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