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20 Pictures of Saigon from Before You Were Born

We’re gonna go out on a limb and assume none of readers are more than 100 years old. Based on this assumption, we present 20 pictures of Saigon from before you were born.


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While there are a few enclaves of the city that have still retained some semblance of the city’s  sleepy character, the Saigon of the late 19th and early 20th centuries can only be found in old photographs.

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