'Creating' 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 steps, so how can he not have a "wasp waist".

In the 1970s, a difficult time for the country, all multi-storey 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 every day, one had to go down to the ground at least 7-8 times. In the past, one had to bring a bicycle or a water tank with them, which meant that every day, people living in multi-storey 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, in terms of appearance, it must be acknowledged 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 toned calves; if there are a couple of friends of the same height, the girl who follows her parents to the multi-storey house will be taller than the girl 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 an announcer for the provincial television 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, looking like 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, put on a German fur coat to go to work. There were always a few love-sick guys following behind on bicycles…

When she participated in the role of an extra in the movie Chuyen xe bao tap, 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 that the labor 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 ate until our teeth were tired.

The little 'pink shadow' 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-storey building because of her rustic beauty. Her skin is white, and she is blessed with a high neck with 3 folds, 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 conditions 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” of the 198x generation was Lam “mua” in building B3. At that time, Nghe An students studying in Hanoi were eager to meet Lam “mua” - a resident of building B3 (opposite Saigon Hotel – Kim Lien).

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

There is an anecdote that when summer came, Lam's mother assigned her to sell 3 boxes of iced tea every night at a 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 them finished drinking, then collapsed and couldn't get up because their bladders were full...

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 spent their childhood there with friends, with memories that could not be bought with money. For us, not only Phuong “TV”, 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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