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] Nightingale was founded in 1930 as a single shophouse near Sala Chalermkrung Royal Theatre by Nat Niyomvanich, a local Thai Chinese businessman.

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.