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Saigon Photographer Malcolm Wilde Browne Died

by Frank Stoddard, ACS

Malcolm Wilde Browne died this week. He took the picture of the monk burning himself by the Saigon Market in 1963. Many of you were probably in Saigon at that time. Do you remember Madame Nhu’s Bar B_que speech? My son and I saw the automobile the monk used to get […]

French Tri-Car In Vietnam: 100 Years Ago

Annam 1905 Gabrielle Vasscal Driving Tri-Car. Click to Enlarge

In her book On and Off Duty in Annam (1910) Gabrielle Vassal tells of her and her husband’s rather eventful journey from Nha Trang to Daban in their new Tri-Car.

Not being familiar with the term Tri-Car I was wondering if it would have […]

Kay Merkel Boruff Joins Blog

Kay recently joined our blog.

She taught 1st grade and later 5th and 6th grade at PSG (Phoenix Study Group) which was the school system in Saigon after ACS closed in 1965.

She is currently living in Texas.

If you want too, you can contact her through *Friends Connect* (located at the top left side […]

Pierre Jammes – Classic Cars of Viet-nam

Pierre visits the blog sometimes sharing information about his research of classic cars of Viet-nam.

Those of you who are interested in cars that were in Viet-nam while you lived there will find his research on the Citroen very interesting, I’m sure.

Click Here to visit Pierre’s web site.

Here is a site Pierre has […]