Submitted by Sandy Hanna (ACS)
Capital Kinh Do Theater after bombing Sunday February 16, 1964. CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE
Our military family was in Saigon from 1960 to 1962.
I always referred to the theater we took the bus from in front of the PX as the underground theater.
It was a bomb shelter like thing that you went through a store front to get to and then down a ramp into a theater.
This wasn’t also called the Kinh Do Theater was it.
Does anyone know?
I believe you’re referring to the Alhambra. My family was in Saigon from ’61 to ’63 and the Kinh Do became an American theater in 1962. I remember a bomb going off in front of the Kinh Do (was there more than one bombing?) because I was inside with my brother watching Lady and the Tramp. I was about 9 at the time.
If you remember the movie bus picking you up across from the PX, then you might remember a house with a white wall around it catty-corner from the PX. That’s where my family lived.
Jim Keberline
The Alhambra was set back from the street by a corridor and then opened up to the cinema/movie. You might recall there was a small white stand on the left as one enters the main area of the movie “lobby” where sodas, popcorn and candy were sold. I had that job in the evening during the 1960-61 school year.