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Second Generation Saigon Kids In Katmandu

Okay, so you are sitting there wondering what the heck are *Second Generation* Saigon Kids.

Well … they are the off-spring of First Generation Saigon Kids (you know like you are First Generation and your children are Second Generation Saigon Kids). Duh! I guess that wasn’t rocket science – now was it!?! – LOL

Now the story goes like this – once upon a time, back in the good ol’ days around 1960, in a far, far away place called Saigon there lived a loud mouth bratty beer drinking girl chasing Marlboro smoking cussing baseball playing rock n roll dancing teenage kid who thought he was, as Bo Diddley would say, “I’m an M – A – N … mannnnnn!”

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Old Photographs – SO Young

I was looking at old pictures. I have so many!! Love the clothing styles in this photo … especially Sarah’s!

Left to Right: Veny, Sarah and Susie

Frank

Teen Years In Saigon A Different World

The Arizona Daily Star

Tuesday, July 11, 2000

Author: Bonnie Henry

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They were typical American teen-agers: playing softball, listening to old Buddy Holly records – and cowering in the kitchen ’til the machine guns fell silent.

For this was Saigon , early ’60s, in a country [...]

Dalida - Born to Sing

Today Frank sent a picture of him standing next to the bust of Dalida in Montmartre. You can view it by clicking here.

This got me thinking about Dalida and her music – and how every so often a person comes along who was born to sing, and through their music they change the [...]

Beer, Babes and Baseball … and not necessarily in that order!!!!!

How the “Saigon Teenager Softball Team” came about!

I know this sounds surprising, but Bob, Larry Smith and myself would sometimes ditch school. We would go into the “boy’s room” have a cigarette and wait for a class to start. We would look down the open-air hallway and when it was all clear [...]