Newest addition to the ACS Library is a 1963 Saigon street map with the ‘OLD’ street names that most of us knew. (ACS Library is located on the site Menu on the right side of this page.)
Since all the street names have changed, I thought this might be of help to some of you in [...]

We continue with Part 13 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 time [...]

Additional Rex Hotel pictures have been posted in the Photo Gallery … 23 in all. They span the time frame from when the property was the Bainier Garage and Auto Hall (1920s) through 2008. I’ll add more descriptions and historical information to each picture in the near future.
If anyone has other pictures of the Rex, [...]

The Presidential Palace in June 1958.

I always thought this one was much nicer looking then the new one.
Bob

Cercle Sportif in 1958. Tennis anyone?!

If you look really hard, you can see Frank and I … over by the pool sipping Lemon Nod … and enjoying the French girls … 
Bob

Anyone care to join me for a Hamburger or Pho? …

I thought you might enjoy a few memories of Cheap Charlie’s from 1958.
66 Hai Ba Trung (Paul Blanchy)
Bob

In Déjà Vu: Vietnam Part 6 we saw the Rex Hotel. While most of us remember it from the late 1950s through the fall of Saigon in 1975, have you ever wondered what it was before the time of our arrival in Saigon? Or, what became of it after 1975?
I did … so here is [...]