The first elevator in Vietnam was owned by Mr. Hoa’s family in Saigon in the 20s of the last century. In fact, when building this first elevator house, bourgeois Hua Bon Hoa (Chu Hoa) passed away nearly 30 years ago. His descendants want to fulfill his wish to build a large building to gather and live together.

In Hanoi during the French colonial period, no house was so tall that it needed an elevator. Until later, when the anti-American war broke out, there was still no elevator, although people built dormitories up to 4 or 5 floors high. The concept of an elevator in Hanoi therefore only stops at the elevators in a few restaurants and commercial noodle shops. Called “machine” but actually “hand crank”.

Long Bien Bridge – a witness to Hanoi’s history in paintings by artist Do Phan.

The staff on the upper floor looked down at the counter downstairs to order pho and grabbed the handle to pull up the pho. It’s also very modern. It is like a very attractive game to the children in the street in the 60s of the last century. Of course it’s the craft shop’s homemade “elevator” and it works the same way. Just a little carelessness and the staff will make the whole pho tray return to the production site in the form of broken pieces mixed with pho!

The first elevators appeared in Hanoi less than two decades ago. It appeared by the demand of high-rise houses and apartments. It is constantly being improved to become as smart as it is now is the constant efforts of the manufacturer to satisfy a new type of customer with no experience of using it. The more in places with low population, the more intelligent the elevator must be to keep it safe.

The first days of getting used to the elevator could not help but make the people feel surprised. But most people living in apartments are trained in a few sessions to be proficient. Guests coming to play are not necessarily like that. Not all public buildings and apartment buildings have the same elevators in terms of operation. So, in the elevator room going down, suddenly the door opened and someone rushed in.

When the door closed and elevator ran, he knew the direction was not the same as his intention. The humble man had to go down to the basement and back up. The hot-tempered man shouted. Manufacturers still have one last thing to improve. Those are elevators that can read passengers’ intentions to get up and down.

Guests who come to each other’s houses in the apartment, of course, have to take the elevator. No one can stay on the lower floors only for public service. The bottom few floors are usually a supermarket, which is circulated by escalators. Also a kind of elevator but easier to use. Just by looking with the naked eye can tell whether it is up or down. However, children who take their eyes off adults still often have accidents on this type of elevator.

Painter Do Phan still preserves the emotional memories of time through his drawings and even emotional lines.

In the apartment complex, guests often enter the wrong elevator room in the vast basement parking lot. Only when I got to the floor I wanted and couldn’t find the apartment number did I know it was wrong. The next journey, of course, is to return to the starting point.

In high-class apartment buildings with tight security, most homeowners still have to go down to the lobby to pick up guests. No matter how familiar the elevator is, you still need a swipe card to dial the floor number. Like in some hotels, you also need a key card from your room to be able to dial the floor number. This seems obvious, but it also causes a lot of trouble for strangers. I don’t know if that’s why people living in high-end apartments often only have guests for the first few days to celebrate their new home. After that, everyone seemed to be afraid to go to such a place.

The apartment elevator is a great item for the elderly. There were many elderly people living in the street, even if they lived only on the 2nd floor, but they did not go to the ground for many years because of their degenerated knees. Descendants followed his wishes to move down to the apartment, even though it was on the 16th floor, it was easy to go down to the yard to exchange poetry. Life is so beautiful again. It turns out that sometimes people move not just because of the house itself, but because of the elevator that doesn’t belong to them.

However, the apartment elevator is not only serving civilized people. Some of the nurses carried small children into the stairwell to coax them to apply powder and pee. A few girls in the elevator also took advantage of the make-up tools to regain their beauty until they forgot to step out when the door opened. The most shocking thing is that the pervert guys in the elevator have now become a common thing in all three regions. People were fined 200,000, people were prosecuted for molesting children. They are only half civilized, so they don’t know that most elevators now have surveillance cameras installed. Your harassment actions have clear and indisputable visual evidence.

But speaking of which, the townsfolk have never gotten used to anything as fast as an elevator. It takes the world hundreds of years of design and production, but the people only need a few years to have access to the most advanced results. Now there are quite a few ordinary people on the street who install their own elevators for their own homes. Poorer people who want to know how to use the elevator just need to make an appointment to visit friends in the apartment and be satisfied!

Writer Do Phan