Narrator: Luong, Ty Van

Interviewer: Vo Dang, Thuy

Date of Interview: 2012-04-23

Permanent Link To This Item: http://hdl.handle.net/10575/3268

Summary: Oral history of Mr. Luong Van Ty (Ty Van Luong, western-style), born in 1932 in South Vietnam. He grew up in Saigon in a middle class family with a Chinese father, Vietnamese mother, and 5 siblings. His interview focused on early years in Saigon, his experience in the Army Reserves and later as an artist who was commissioned to create a large painting of former South Vietnam president Ngo Dinh Diem that was hung in the presidential palace. His interview also elaborates on his experience leaving Vietnam in 1975 and resettlement in Southern California. He worked many different jobs including a portrait artist of Movieland Museum and owned various businesses, including a Vietnamese-language television station for 25 years. After his retirement he refocused his energy on painting and at the time of interview was learning sculpture.

Decade of Birth: 1930-1939

Subjects: Art | Artist | Business | Business owner | Chinese and ethnic Chinese | Death | Education | Employment | Entrepreneur | Escape | Family | Farming | Marriage | Media | Resettlement | Sponsors or sponsorship | Student | Television | Vietnam War | Camp Pendleton, California | Garden Grove, California | Riverside County, California | San Bernardino County, California | Saigon (Vietnam)

Type: Sound

Duration: 02:33:01

Language: Vietnamese

Provenance: Recorded Digitally