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Reliving the voucher years
  • By Quang Phong | dtinews.vn | August 14, 2012 03:10 PM

One restaurant on Nam Trang Street in Hanoi is displaying various items from the years after the American War, attracting many customers.

The restaurant's owner, Nguyen Quang Minh, has spent a lot of time collecting particular items, and later decided to create a place to show and sell them.

Many people in Hanoi, especially those who had lived through this period, enjoy the chance of remembering very different times in the capital during the 70s and early 80s, before new economic policies were in place. Even though this period was full of daily difficulties, it evidently has created a certain soft spot in the hearts of customers.

 

The small restaurant on Nam Trang Street

 

Hundreds of items on display for those who lived through the war years

 

Bowls, electric fans and cups

 

Hung bicycles remind people of past days

 

Televisions used to be a luxury

 

Visitors surprised by old radios with new news

 

New technology informs many of old times

 

Walls filled with memorabilia

 

Old vouchers for necessities

 

 

 

Stamps and coins

 

Items that used to be displayed at drink stalls 

 

Expensive 'artifact'

A visitor

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