Công Viên Quách Thị Trang
1. Quách Thị Trang Park from a distance.
Quách Thị Trang was a student killed in a Buddhist demonstration against
President Ngô Đình Diệm. Diệm was a Catholic, and his regime
had an overwhelming Catholic agenda, despite the fact that Buddhism accounted
for something like 80% of all Vietnamese religion. The discounting
and dismissal of the Buddhist majority is one reason why Buddhist monks
felt compelled to immolate themselves early in the war, and why students
and demonstrators were willing to, and sometimes did, die.
2. Quách Thị Trang Park; see the previous
page for a closeup
3. Market scene
4. Living Language Audio-Visual Center on Thành-Thái
street. According to John Lee, Thành-Thái was the name of a Vietnamese
king, and the name very likely would not have survived past 1975.
5. Living Language Audio-Visual Center.
Top line could be Da or Đa (khoa) sư phạm Sàigòn
khoa sư phạm is pedagogy
6. Kids taking the long, complicated route, also
on on Thành-Thái street
7. Thành-Thái street scene (at least I'm pretty
sure it's still Thành-Thái street)
Binh is soldier
Bình is vase, flower-pot, pitcher
Bịnh is disease, sickness
Ký is to sign
Kỳ is to pay in installments
Kỵ binh is cavalry;-)
8. Street scene
9. Street scene, standard cyclo
10. Motorized cyclo. Motocyclo?
11. A different motorized cyclo closeup.
12. A load of bananas in Sàigòn.
13. On the road to Vũng Tàu. Note the convoy
of armored cars at the left.
14. Sàigòn street scene.
Thanks to John Lee and Tran Dinh Hoanh on vnforum
for help with some of these pictures.
Next page of pictures.
