this is the place where i spend all of my childhood and few teen years......

love this place.... mommma m comin home........

me too...i spent all my childhood here...i love this place too!

Ofcourse man this is the best place in Kathmandu, i have my past in this market. Aason. I miss that place. Anyway i still don't know how come name ASON?? anybody??

i cannot be sure but i m guessing....may be A Son named this place ASON...

i probably saw guys over there...u know that rath jatra of machhendranath......i used to be all over the chariot .....u probably saw me too huh :P

This picture must be very old. Any idea when was this picture taken?
Seeing the cloth people in the picture wearing, this must be more than 50years old. But electric wire, pole and lamp post suggests it could have been taken a-bit later. Whatever the age of this picture is, the look of Ason Chok from this angle has not changed yet. Only it looks more wrecked now (see pic below)

MOMMA.. I WISH I CUD COME HOME./

eklai chhu ghar bata dherai tadha..samjhanchhu mero pyaro NEPAL. saathi sanga k kasta bhayen hola.. sadhai hasi khelne tyo aagan kasto hola..

Ganapati. I don't think the picture you are talking about is that old. I just tried to watch everything closely and looking at the motorbike there we can figure out something. The bike looks like is of new model. Especially when you see the tail of it, it is plastic part. In the early days these parts use to be of iron only. Look at the looking glass also, in early days bikes had round type of looking glass. So i guess this photo should not be more that 15 years old.

Faded, the MB pic you posted brought back my childhood memories...Thanks for posting...

ohhh god!!!! "mangalbazar" ko....my hometown my junction...

wowwwwww my home town KTM.I miss aason ko titaura.

I Love ason!

Solitude baulayo ki kho?

ekjana garcha aagra ko kura solitude garcha gagra ko kura?

Is there anybody to post the basantapur ko chiya pasal ko photo?

 

Yes.. Solitude le Ganapati ko photo maa dekheko bike Suzuki fiero ho.. that model started around 2000-2001.. so that picture of Ason selling garlands is after 2000 AD ..

Solitude and Popeye,

Ganapati was talking about the first picture, I guess.  But, yeah the bike is fiero. Anyways, good to see those pictures.

. Solitude, i was asking about the age of photo on the top.. i just posted that photo to compare building and surrounding with the original photo.. cheers anyway..

The first picture was taken when the hippies first started to show up in Nepal...

It was taken by a Danish gentleman. He was one of those who followed hippie trail all the way from denmark to afganistan to pakistan , india and then to their final destination NEPAL.........It was probably lates 60s i believe or the early 70s.

soullesseye

i kinda recognise the pic u posted...hab seen it somewhere before...

where did u find it from?

peace out

its a really famous picture....:P

It seems ASON used to be as busy a place in those days as it is today. The buildings have remained the same.. only that people have changed the way they dress up.. Nice to see the two photos..