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| Location | Phra Nakhon, Bangkok, Thailand |
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| Coordinates | 13°44′44″N 100°29′57″E / 13.7454714°N 100.4992175°E / 13.7454714; 100.4992175 |
| Address | 70 Tri Phet Rd, Wang Burapha Phirom |
| Opening date | 5 August 1966 (1966-08-05) (officially) |
| Closing date | Mid-2024 |
| Developer | Nightingale Olympic Co., Ltd. |
| Owner | Nightingale Olympic Co., Ltd. |
| No. of floors | 7 (2 open to the public) |
| Website | nightingaleolympic |
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.
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. In 1966, it was renamed Nightingale–Olympic.
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".
In 2024, upon the death of Niyomvanich's younger sister Aroon, who had been running the store for decades, the business was closed.
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- Praphanwong, Suchada (18 August 2011). ""ไนติงเกล โอลิมปิค" ห้างแรกของเมืองไทย" ["Nightingale–Olympic" Thailand first's department store]. Prachachat (in Thai). Archived from the original on 16 March 2018.
- "Bangkok's forgotten shopping centre". bbc.com. 25 May 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2025.
- Chak Rak Su Rao Season 2 (6 April 2022). "กรุงเทพฯ เมื่อแรกสร้าง: กอบกู้ ก่อร่าง สร้างเมือง" [Bangkok when the first built: salvage, shaping, building a city]. Thai PBS (in Thai). Retrieved 15 August 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - Kuharuangrong, Jinna (9 December 2024). "คุณอรุณ นิยมวานิช ผู้ก่อตั้งห้างโอลิมปิก-ไนติงเกล ห้างสรรพสินค้าแรกของไทย ถึงแก่กรรมอย่างสงบด้วยอายุ 103 ปี เมื่อวันที่ 30 มิถุนายนที่ผ่านมา" [Mr. Arun Niyomwanich, founder of Olympic-Nightingale Department Store, Thailand's first department store, passed away peacefully at the age of 103 on June 30.]. Facebook (in Thai). Retrieved 22 July 2024.
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