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– Antique collectors in Saigon often see each
other at the café ran by singer Cao Minh in Binh Thanh district. here,
customers can exchange, display and admire unique antiques.

Antique collectors often gather at the café on Sunday
mornings. They call this café “antique market”. More interestingly, they can
learn about history of the antiques.

Cao Minh café is also the venue of clubs of collectors of
old vehicles, old phones and the club of photographers.

Ms. Thanh, from Tan Binh district, said: “my friends and I
often come here on Sunday mornings to talk about old phones, which are one of
my hobbies. Today we’re discussing the difference between phones of Western
Electric and Automatic Electric.”

“Collecting old phones is my hobby. I thought that I’m alone
but now I know that there are many people sharing my hobby at this café,” said
a young man named Linh.

At Cao Minh café, one can buy old items worth anything
between less than $5 to several hundreds of USD and those for which nobody can
fix aprice. They may be rare spare parts of old Vespa motorbikes which were
manufactured several decades ago or a watch which was made in the early 20^th
century.

Mr. Ky, a collector of old motorbikes from a
southwestern province, said: “I’ve collected Lambretta motorbikes for nearly
ten years. Every several months, I go to HCM City
to visit this café to look for items I need”.

old books and stamps are also sold at this café.

PV