WHAT’S IN A NAME? Years passed before...
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WHAT’S IN A NAME? Years passed before painful memories of the Vietnam War softened and Little Saigon could come out of the closet. . . . In 1981, a request to name a shopping mall Saigon Plaza was denied by Westminster authorities. It was called Westminster Colony Plaza instead. Other developers named their malls after Vietnamese historical figures rather than Vietnam or its former capital. . . . It was June, 1988, before authorities formally adopted what the area had been called for years: Little Saigon.
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