Saigon Then and Now: As the center city looked in the 1970's

Saigon Lam Son Square 2017 opens this montage. Metro construction consumes much of the area.
Then the same shot in the early 1970's. The film shows scenes - many of them greatly altered today. The Old Passage Eden is gone, as is the monument honoring South Vietnamese troops, Givrals coffee shop closed at this location. City Hall is still there as is the Continental Hotel. The author/photographer stayed at the ROYAL Hotel in 1970. The final shows show the scene outside the Caravelle Hotel between May 1 and May 10th 1975 after the Communist take - over. Motorbikes then as now are an ubiquitous feature of Saigon life.

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  • @sandydremmel2769
    @sandydremmel27693 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this video, you brought back my child hood memories.

  • @cramifcramidf3590
    @cramifcramidf35907 ай бұрын

    Je suis vietnamien, j'ai vecu à Sài Gòn avant 30/4/1975❤

  • @anduonghoai9983
    @anduonghoai99832 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Jim.

  • @tuanz8009
    @tuanz80097 ай бұрын

    Damn. The streets were so clean.

  • @georgemoore7196
    @georgemoore71966 жыл бұрын

    Hey Jim Laurie. Do not ever imagine that at least one young student does not know what you saw in your life. My very highest regards to you for uploading your old film clips. facebook.com/sfogm9

  • @miiisohsoup2889
    @miiisohsoup28894 жыл бұрын

    Do you know why there were so many automobiles back then but now motorbikes are everywhere? I've noticed it a lot in these comparing videos.

  • @ccie4101

    @ccie4101

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well, what do you expect when the country by run by a bunch of corrupt and stupid commies.

  • @miiisohsoup2889

    @miiisohsoup2889

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ccie4101 glad you feel the same

  • @tomcomiskey6350

    @tomcomiskey6350

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ccie4101 The commies took all the people of SVN's money and business's , and sent the owner's ," the ones they didn't murder" to prison camps to brainwash them. They "NVA" committed countless atrocities to the people of SVN.

  • @ariefachmadi5027

    @ariefachmadi5027

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ccie4101 uhh what? the reason why there is much more motorbikes now because bikes are more cheaper and versatile than car, also motorbikes back then is not produced en masse like today. if you look to another metropolis in ASEAN like rangoon, KL, jakarta, bangkok, manila, vientiane, and phnompenh there is much more people using motorbikes than automobiles. so no, it's not because the "commies"

  • @ccie4101

    @ccie4101

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ariefachmadi5027 You're an ignorant fool. If you look at photos of Saigon in the early 1960s and early 1970s you will see lots of cars as well as Japanese motorbikes. After the communist takeover in April 1975, most cars and motorbikes disappeared because people coudn''t afford gasoline anymore.