'Building' the most beautiful Quang Trung multi-storey house in Vinh city?

(Baonghean.vn) - Quang Trung's body is mostly slim and has long legs. Every day, he climbs up and down more than ten times, with hundreds of stairs, so how can he not have a "wasp waist".

In the 1970s, a difficult time for the country, all multi-story buildings were not equipped with elevators. Later, children joked, “Here, the elevator runs on rice.” To go up to a floor, one had to climb 16 steps, and go down to the ground at least 7-8 times a day. In the past, one had to bring a bicycle, a water tank, etc. In other words, every day, people living in multi-story buildings had to climb up and down more than a hundred steps.

Quang Trung people also travel no differently than “highlanders in the heart of the city”. Therefore, whether the face is pretty or not is partly due to nature, but one thing is certain about the figure, it must be admitted that from the past until now, most of the “Quang Trung girls” have met and exceeded the standard. Most of the girls in the multi-storey houses are over 1.6 m tall with small and firm calves; if there are two friends of the same height, the one who follows their parents to the multi-storey house will be taller than the one in the ground floor house.

Peaceful doves in building A6. Photo: Truong Manh Ha.

People born in the 1960s in Quang Trung area all remember a beauty with the nickname Phuong “television”. She is the youngest daughter of Associate Professor Le Ba Han, who teaches Literature at Vinh Pedagogical University. Her family lives in room 28, building A3. At that time, being recruited as a radio announcer for the provincial TV station was more difficult than competing in a beauty pageant today, but she passed.

Originally a girl from Song La, Phuong “TV” had a western beauty, vaguely resembling the movie actress Thuy An of the same period. At that time, Nghe An TV broadcast 3 shows a week, at around 4 pm she would carry her Diamant bicycle (made in Germany), wear jeans, a T-shirt, or if it was winter she would wear a German fur coat to work. There were always a few lovesick guys following behind on bicycles…

When she participated in the role of an extra in the movie “The Stormy Car”, which tells the story of a 2-day, 2-night journey from Vinh to Hanoi, the number of “stupid guys writing poems” increased day by day. I remember, the cost of delivering a love letter from the ground floor to the 4th floor was two sesame candies, and there were days when my brothers and I could not finish eating them all.

The little 'pink lady' in the Quang Trung apartment complex. Photo: Thanh Cuong.

Speaking of the 197x generation, Hang “Ca” is a nickname that flies far beyond the multi-story buildings because of her rustic beauty. Her skin is white, and she is blessed with a high, 3-layered neck, along with eyes with long eyelashes and the plump features of a country girl.

At that time, there was a fashion of writing poems for girlfriends and around Hang “Ca”’s house on the first floor of building B4 on weekends, poems flew “all over”. Some people were even bold enough to write “toad poems” and post them in front of her house: “The Lao wind blackens everything/Grass, trees, flowers and even birds/But it cannot blacken/My sister’s white skin”.

Until now, when she became the owner of the Pacific Hotel (Cua Lo) and Huu Nghi (Vinh), people still mention Hang "Ca" as a source of pride for one of the most beautiful girls in Quang Trung at that time. Hang's family was good at business, so this B4 girl had the means to dress up and her reputation spread throughout the high schools at that time. When talking about "building a multi-story house", people mentioned Hang "Ca".

Another famous “Quang Trung guy” of the 198x generation was Lam “dancing” in building B3. At that time, Nghe An students studying in Hanoi were eager to meet Lam “dancing” - a resident of building B3 (opposite Saigon – Kim Lien hotel).

Thanh Lam and Minh Thong (house B2) were admitted to the contemporary dance department of the Military Arts College at the age of 12. Without much description, one can imagine the figure of this Nghe An dancer. Not only Nghe An boys but also many other boys from other provinces flock to Mai Dich area hoping to have a chance to meet this actress.

There is a story that when summer came, Lam's mother assigned her to sell 3 boxes of iced tea every night at the temporary stall on Quang Trung Street. Upon hearing the news, the male satellites gathered around the beauty, competing to drink iced tea, to please her, to have the opportunity to invite her out... Some were busy, some of the men finished drinking, then collapsed and could not get up because of a full bladder...

When we grew up and had the opportunity to travel far and near, in the eyes of the boys from high-rise buildings, the “high-rise girls” were still the most beautiful. Simply, they were there to spend their childhood with friends, with memories that could not be bought with money. For us, not only Phuong “television”, Hang “Ca”, Lam “dance” but any Quang Trung girl, maybe Vinh “Nhan”, Toan “lun”… they were all beautiful, very beautiful indeed.

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