The Snapshots in Time Collection
Street Scene with Scooters and Cyclo Before Traditional Khmer Gate, Hotel Cambodiana Under Construction, Phnom Penh (Vietnam-Cambodia Collection)
This street scene, photographed in Phnom Penh, Cambodia during the 1960s, captures the rhythms of everyday civilian life -- scooters, bicycles, and a pedicab crossing an open plaza before an ornate traditional Khmer gateway. In the background, the multi-story Hotel Cambodiana rises amid scaffolding, part of Phnom Penh's mid-century development. Photographed in the years before Cambodia's descent into conflict, this image preserves a rare visual record of the capital's peacetime streetscape as seen by an American traveler passing through the wider Vietnam-Cambodia region. Project: 218694