Stamps for buying meat, cloth, oil, images of trading stores, scenes of people jostling to line up to receive subsidized goods... from the 70s and 80s are recreated through vivid photos that make viewers tear up when remembering a time long gone.
Identity card in our grandparents' time.
Meat coupons during the subsidy period. Each coupon like this allowed people to exchange it for 1kg of meat.
Traffic police and their vehicles during the subsidy period: The red cup car. This was a rather luxurious means of transport at that time.
Cinema during the subsidy period. A place showing slow black and white films, monotonous sound, beautiful and rustic actors, no makeup, but still beautiful and deep in the memories of our parents and grandparents.
Ballpoint pen refill service in the 70s and 80s.
Draft beer during the subsidy period was sold through iron bars to avoid chaos.
Legendary beef noodle shops that only the 7X and 8X generations are lucky enough to be taken to by their parents.
Comic book rental store - the dream of children in the past.
Food stamps in the 80s.
The familiar Tet jam packages in the memories of many people.
The stores distribute daily necessities to the people.
A department store on Hang Ngang Street - Hanoi.
Standard living room in subsidy period style.
People weigh rice to pay to the cooperative.
A familiar department store during the subsidy period. At that time, goods were distributed by the state under the ration card system, not freely bought and sold on the market, and people were not allowed to transport goods from one locality to another.
Coupon used to purchase fabric in 1983.
The food stamp sample is equivalent to 250 grams of food.
Government bonds are also printed on paper and circulated like coupons for buying food and necessities.
Tran Trang - Dan Viet Newspaper
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