Le Quang Trung, 43, has collected items from olden times for more than a decade. His three-storey house has become a mini museum with old itms such as copper candles, chicken-shaped irons, toad fans and loudspeakers.
The house is now a coffee shop, where people with the same passion come to exchange things and recall their memories of the old days.
Customers are mainly middle-aged people who come to look at a bygone era, along with memorabilia that are hard to find nowadays.
Each item in this small cafe is associated with a story of a bygone era. It was a time when he only dared to look at well-to-do families from afar.
Items collected by Trung:
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A corner of the first floor is full of items that were used during the subsidy period. |
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Trung and his chicken-shaped iron.
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Old items are neatly arranged on shelves.
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A black and white TV. |
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Copper lamps.
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The items used by the rich in the past. |
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A typewriter. |
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A record player. |
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Many items are unfamiliar to today's youth.
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The second floor of Trung's house is also full of old things.
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A pipe, a radio, and a water bottle of wartime.
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A small corner in Trung's house. |
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