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Nightingale–Olympic, or The Nightingale–Olympic Co., LTD. (Thai: ไนติงเกล-โอลิมปิก); simply known as Nightingale, was a department store in Bangkok, Thailand. Located on Tri Phet Road in Bangkok's Wang Burapha Phirom subdistrict, it was the oldest department store in the nation until it closed, in 2024.[2]
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Nightingale was founded in 1930 as a single shophouse near Sala Chalermkrung Royal Theatre by Nat Niyomvanich, a local Thai Chinese businessman. At the time, he employed his six siblings as well as three nieces.[3][4] In 1966, it was renamed Nightingale–Olympic.[1]
In the 1960s, Nightingale was popular with teenagers. It sold cosmetics, stationery, fashionable clothing, lingerie, musical instruments, sports goods, and also included a beauty salon as well as Thailand's first fitness club. It used the slogan "Hub of sporting goods, king of musical instruments, queen of cosmetics".[1]
In 2024, upon the death of Niyomvanich's younger sister Aroon, who had been running the store for decades, the business was closed.[5]
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