Tu Do Street
Catinat Street
before 1955
Tu Do street after 1955
formely Catinat street
(now Đồng Khởi)
The famous Catinat Street would become Tu Do (Liberty) Street from 1955 to 1975 during the war between South- and North-Vietnam. After the fall of the South-Vietnamese government it would be renamed Dông Khoï (General Insurrection).
Tu Do Street
- at 1 Majestic Hotel
The Saigon Palace
- 8-16 the Saigon Palace Hotel, at the ground floor Coya Tailor Coya Tailor
TWA
- 16 Trans World Air Lines
Maxim's
- " 18-22 Restaurant-Theater"Maxim's"
Eden Roc Hotel
- " 18-22 "Eden Roc" Hotel-Restaurant
Prénatal
- " 26 "Prénatal" Store Pan American World Airways
- " 31 Pan American World Airways Tô - GIANG
- " 41 "Tô - Giang" Bar Star Light
- " 45 Bar "Star Light" Oxford Tailors
- " 49 "Oxford" Ladies & Gents Taillors
Vietnam Photographic
- " 57 Vietnam Photographic Supply Co
Thai-Thach Company
- " 58-62 "Thai-Thach" Order your Pontiac or Buick The Neptuna swimming-pool
- " 59 The Neptuna swimming-pool Massage and Steam bath The Sporting Bar
- " 61 The Sporting Bar Botany Tailor
- " 64 Botany Tailor Hotel Astor
- " 66 - 70 Hotel Astor Catinat Hotel
- " 69 Hotel Catinat Esquire Tailors
- " 71 Esquire Tailor
Tu-Do Cabaret
- " at 80 Tu Do Cabaret Akai information &
- " 80 also Akai demonstration center Bar Restaurant First
- " 87 Bar-Restaurant "First" Luong Tan
- " 91 Bazaar- Civil and military tailor Café Impérial
- "93 -97"Café Impérial" the owner was a Corsican mister Bonelli.
Optician Michaux
- " 102 "An optician Michaux" Miramar Hotel
- " 115 - 117 Miramar Hotel Star Hotel Tu Do
- " 123 Star Hotel & Windy Tu Do Snack Bar |
Bata Shoes
Bata:
Place Law Son
Air France
- "122-130 Air France
Hotel Caravelle
- "130 Caravelle Hotel, opened on december 24th 1959, is located at the corner of Law-Son square (formely Theatre square). The Maison Brodart "Le Bougnat"
- " 131-133 The «Brodard café»
Continental Hotel
- " 132-134 Continental Hotel
Rotary Club from Saigon downtow
- " 134 The « Rotary Club » from Saigon downtown Viet Long Jewelry Â
- "135-139 Viet Long Jewelry opposite to Caravelle Hotel. Ashoka
- " 137 "Ashoka" Tailor Cars International
- " 138 Cars International "Honda" Bao Loc Jewelry
- " 138 "Bao Loc" Jewelry Princess Bar
- " 140 "Princess Bar" Chez Jeannine Le Kim Phu Dung
Hair Clinic
- " 142 "Le Kim Phu Dung Restaurant and Hair Clinic Lyne Florist
- " 144 Lyne Flowers Interflora Société Car-Asie
- " 152 "Car-Asie Company " Bombay Catinat
- " 155 "Textiles Bombay Catinat" Alpha Films - " 157 "Alpha" HOAN-HAO
- " 158 C "Hoan-Hoa" The Givral Bar, Delicatessen
- " 169 "Givral Un Régal sans Égal... " Eden Mall
- At right one of the Eden Mall entrance Keeley's Bar
- 20 Eden Mall Keeley's Bar Eden Theater
- 183 Eden Theater Paris Décors
- 188 "Paris Décors" Furniture and Interior Decorating La Pagode
- " 209 "La Pagode" Pastries & Tea rom
Bao An
- " 213 Ladie's Hairdressing and Barber Shop Tu Do Street
- The top of Tu Do Street Moped on Tu Do Street
During the American period, the businesses of the French colony would progressively disappear to make way for restaurants, cabarets, and night-clubs which would make an Asian Pigalle of the former Catinat Street.
Despite the attacks and bombings of the F.N.L., Tu Do Street would remain an island of tranquility where corruption, drug trafficking, and prostitution would prosper. |
The business establishments and institutions on Catinat (Tu Do) Street)
in the 50's et 60's
Les établissements et les
La Cathédrale Notre-Dame, Continental Palace, Hôtel Caravelle, Hôtel Majestic, le Théâtre Municipal (après 1955 il deviendra le Parlement), Denis Frères, la Croix du Sud, la Pagode, la librairie Portail... ici |
The business establishments and
Notre-Dame Cathedrale, Continental Palace, Caravelle Hotel, Majestic Hotel, Municipal Theater, Denis Brothers, the Southern Cross, the Book and Stationery store of Albert Portail... here |
Catinat Street
before 1955
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