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1950/60s Cutting Edge Modern Business Machines for Writing, Duplicating, and Recording

This video shows the latest cutting edge technology when we were attending ACS and living in Saigon.

Watch this video – than look at your computer you are viewing it on and think for a moment about *everything* your computer, your cell phone, iPod, etc. are capable of doing.

WOW!!

Amazing the advances that have been made since [...]

Indonesia: New Nation of Asia (1959)

Many of us knew Dini and Veni while we lived in Saigon. But, how many of us knew about their homeland of Indonesia.

Until shortly after World War II the islands which became Indonesia where a Dutch Colony (much as Viet-nam was a French Colony) known as the Dutch East Indies. Following the World War II [...]

My Home Town

My home town, St. Joseph, MO, is one of the most historically significant places in the country. It was the last major hub before early settlers headed out to expand West. Enriched with beautiful architecture, much of the downtown areas buildings and districts are in the National Register of Historic Places. There are distinct museums [...]

Bye Bye To Passage Eden in Saigon

In April 2010 demolition began of the old Passage Eden, a central Saigon landmark.

This short video shows areas of the building before all ‘tenants’ were ordered out on April 8th. At least 150 owners of apartments on floors three to five of the est. 1947 French colonial structure are resisting moves by the developer to [...]

Kinh Do Theater Saigon – Now Playing: Vietnam a Journey from War to Peace

Welcome to Saturday At The Movies with Saigon Kids.

In watching the last two movies we’ve seen Saigon – through *Old Saigon The Way It Was In 1955* – as it was in at the beginning of what would become know around the world as The Viet-nam Era. While in the *5 Part Series Evidence of [...]