Gulf Road circa 1960
I like how the sea and beach were right next to the road. [Picture]
Nov 1, 2009
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يعني حزتها وانت راكب سيارتك تقدر تقط خيطك بالبحر من الدريشه وانته ماشي
ماترجع البيت الا وانته صايد هامور
I wish it was like this now!! ;)
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سالم ولد بو سالم
قوية :)
heheh
If it was like this now, we would have a world record for the number of drowning cars…
lol
LOL @ salem weld bo salem
9bgtni ya frankom fiha :P
Awesome looks like miami and california from car to beach sand :D
Everything then was better *sigh*
anyone know where exactly this is….just so that someone can click a picture and compare then and now….
I heard that Blajaat street used to be just like that too – with small cafe restaurants close to the sea. Kuwaitis are still driving VW Bugs! :)
cool!
@mentabolism, Bu Yousef did something similar in London, I’m guessing if we take that mosque tower as a reference point we could take a ‘then and now’ picture :)
only part of the gulf i know with a mosque that close to the sea is near souk sharq.
شي عجيييييييييييب
I belive Mark is right about the location… it seems the Shouq Sharq Intersection!
i have some old pics of kuwait in those days that my mother gave me, i will scan them in and email them to you
You know back in those days some aspiring young Kuwaitis would load up vans full of beer and go sell it on the beach. How times change to the fucking worse…
Is that the mosque with the ugly pink/yellow fast food restaurant right next to it opposit Souq Sharq?
I like old pics like this..
Holla, now they are selling Red Label on poorly lit streets in Salmiya from rolling stops in their Jaguars!
Nostalgic!!
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