Brodard's Restaurant and Bakery

Originally on what we know as Tu Do St., but was [on] Dong Khoi when this photo was taken in about 1986.

Perhaps you were there during the war. Brodards dates back to 1948, and has since relocated to the Palace Hotel

on Nguyen Hue.  It is famous for ice cream and bakery goods.  Our guys who started the original AFRS radio station

at the Rex Hotel in 1962, used to be customers.   You can see bicycles through the window--very few left in

contemporary HCMC.  [Mike McNally]

That's exactly how it looked when I was there in 1992.  Thanks for the photo.  [Ann Kelsey]

Tanks going past the Main Gate at Tan Son Nhut on April 30th, 1975

I went past the Tan Son Nhut Main Gate on the afternoon of 29 April 1975.  Everything was quiet there at that time.

In his book, Black April, George Veith says that the NVA would have arrived at Tan Son Nhut on the 29th,

but a small bridge collapsed while they were enroute, forcing them to take time to go around it.
(From Mike McNally's message which accompanied the photos.)

Also note the cemetery in the center.  From the layout of the tombstones and the roof lines of the building,

it appears to be the same cemetery where Jim White took the next two photos in September 1970.

However, it also appears to be being maintained a lot better.

Saigon Photos

1969 to 1986

Submitted by Mike McNally

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A current "Google Maps" view of much the same area.  The 3rd Field Hospital is at the top.