Old Customs House (Tha Laem Thong)

I walk past this building and feel the weight of the concession era. It looks derelict. That dereliction is honest. Most of Bangkok has been renovated into amnesia.

Built 1888, this was the physical threshold of Siamese sovereignty — where every foreign ship declared its cargo. The building has been abandoned for decades. The shell survives.

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