The Don Englebreston Collection
Vietnamese Street Scene with Food Vendor Carts and Cinema Marquee, December 1969
This street scene, photographed in South Vietnam around December 1969, shows local vendors and their mobile food carts set up along a roadside beneath a cinema marquee advertising Vietnamese-language films. Photographs like this one, taken by American servicemen during off-duty moments, document the civilian world that existed alongside the war -- daily commerce, local culture, and ordinary life continuing in towns near U.S. military installations. Project: 218963