The Old Siam Plaza was a very popular shopping center in the 1950s and 1960s and was closed in the early 1990s.
After World War II, the palace was sold and became a very popular shopping center for young people of Thailand in the 1950s and 1960s. It is home to three cinemas and another nearby as Sala Chalermkrung Royal Theatre. The last cinema here was close down in the early 1990s. 
