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Some good news from Saigon – Banque de L’Indochine to be Preserved

Posted: July 6th, 2016 | 1 Comment »

Now it’s always been a worry that the magnificent Banque de L’Indochine branch in Saigon (on Vo Van Kiet Street – though you can’t really miss it), built between 1929 and 1930, has never before been recognised as a national relic. It is a magnificent structure – a great bank and dwarfs the Banque de L’Indochine’s properties on Shanghai’s Bund or Peking’s Legation Quarter (both of which remain).  Since 1957 it’s been the communist’s bank of course…

Here it is in 1955…

here in 1955

and today…with uglier cars and some monstrosity behind it…

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One Comment on “Some good news from Saigon – Banque de L’Indochine to be Preserved”

  1. 1 Doug Red said at 4:24 am on July 9th, 2016:

    Don’t forget the L’Indo Bank Building still standing in Tianjin on the east side of Jiefang Beilu (Rue de France) – in the old French Concession. It stood as an art museum for many post liberation years. It remains visually stunning.

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