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Kathy asks about – Ba Muoi Ba Beer

Kathy asked this question about Ba Muoi Ba beer …

Question: I remember being told that Ba Muoi Ba beer meant 33 in Vietnamese, and that number represented the percentage of formaldehyde in the beer.

Do you know if this is true?

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Kathy, the original Ba Muoi Ba beer’s actual name was “33 [...]

Bastille Day 1959 – Saigon

Here’s an old picture taken as we departed for the 1959 Bastille Day dance in Saigon  …

Left to Right: Bob, Penny, Vicki and Frank

Frank, does the song “A White Sport Coat and A Pink Carnation … all dressed up for the dance …” come to mind? 

Does anyone else have [...]

Happy Bastille Day!

Today is Bastille Day the French national holiday celebrating the beginning of the French Revolution.

Bastille Day commemorates the storming of the Bastille, which took place on July 14, 1789 and marked the beginning of the French Revolution. The Bastille was a prison and a symbol of the absolute and arbitrary power of Louis [...]

Deja Vu: Vietnam Part 4 (Tan Son Nhut USAF Base Main Gate)

We continue with Part 4 of the 16 part series Deja Vu: Vietnam. The series of videos is made using Google Earth to focus in on various parts of Saigon and surrounding areas of Vietnam. Then overlaid with video footage filmed in 2007 with ‘fade backs’ of videos and photos going back to various [...]

A Yank In Vietnam

Remember Marshall Thompson (star of the tv show ‘Daktari’ and numerous movies in the ’40′s and ’50′s)? In the early ’60′s, he came to Vietnam to make a movie, ‘A Yank In Vietnam’ (alternate title “Year of the Tiger.”) My dad, Donald Seely, was port operations officer in Saigon…and his secretary was a young [...]