September 23rd Park

This guide to September 23rd Park traces the long strip of lawn between Le Lai and Pham Ngu Lao streets back to 1915, when it was Saigon's grand French colonial railway terminal, built to handle trains running all the way from Hanoi. It follows the uprising the park is named for, when resistance fighters took up arms against returning French forces in the weeks after independence was declared in 1945. Listen for what French administrators ran from this exact spot for decades.