The museum documents the entire history of pat pon, not just the last few decades. There's a beautiful, old wooden telephone switchboard that originated in patpon's plaza hotel,. A whole wall of ti language cartoons that were published by the united states information agency. The area is still mainly a red light district but there has been an increasing influx of chinese, indians and visitors from middle east as well.
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