Yesterday BuYousef emailed a link to an article in LIFE about Kuwait dating back to 1959 which contained a good amount of pictures and information. He had found that article by using the search feature in Google Books and it made me realize I might be able to find other hidden treasure and I did. Since his email I’ve been reading old articles none stop and I’m still not 0.0001% through them all.
A search for Kuwait in Google Books will get you tens of thousands of results but I managed to narrow down the search a bit and found the ones below:
1952 Venus is a crook in Kuwait
1955 Proved in the Blazing Heat of Kuwait!
1958 Fresh Water from the Sea
1959 Kuwait: the fabulous sheikdom
1961 A dusty vigil
1965 Everything’s up to date in Kuwait
1975 What happens when the oil is gone?
1979 Bite that tiger
1980 Solar power station for oil-rich Kuwait
Some of the interesting stuff I read weren’t just articles about Kuwait but articles that mentioned Kuwait. I didn’t post them above because there were too many but I did read some interesting stories like I was reading an article from 1961 about a Nazi war criminal that was hiding in Kuwait and then I read another small snippet from someone in Kuwait who had sent a letter to Boys Life. It’s just random bits like that which I found really entertaining to read. Google Books is just amazing.
16 replies on “Kuwait in really really really old magazines”
is that a Harley ?
I’d just followed some of the links above and found some amazing stuff about Kuwait… Amazing! =)
I think the motorcycle on the pix is Honda? 🙂
Thanks, BuYousef and Mark, this is really very interesting for many of us.
Are the solar panels still under operation? I know they were testing wind mills a couple of months ago to provide electricity for certain industries but I don’t know if the solar panels are still in use or possibly replaced by newer ones.
Ok, the solar power station from 30+years ago is quite depressing… We had so many amazing ideas way before the others 🙁
Thanks for posting, Mark.
After blogs and newspapers, Google Books is my favourite online hangout 🙂
@Othman, the solar project was canceled in 1989. The current wind mills project in Kuwait was proven a failure… I think its only getting a funding now as an excuse to seek nuclear power.
Now we know what do when attacked by a tiger!!!
Great find Mark. Do you have the link on the spy..? It must have been reader’s digest.
25 more years till the oil runs out? whats sad is that article was written 25 years ago, and know one has done anything to change how Kuwait relies pretty much 100% on oil for income. and yeah what happens when it does run out? iv always thought this should not be taken lightly and its a problem we are eventually going to have to face.
notice in the blazing heat artical, theres a coffee dalla, a shisha, a dager, and an AXE hanging on the wall !
its either racism or the guy is just badass
The 2nd pic is from the future. That’s Kuwait in 2053.
I luv seeing old pics of kuwait and reading about the history..
“none stop” = “non-stop”
kaaaaaaaaaak the second pic is sa3ad el faraj radif 3abdel 7sain 3abd el retha loool
Guerilla101, Kuwait isn’t going to exist in 25 years, and the people at the top know this, so they’re taking out what they can from the system now…………. just like the iranians who knew their regime was coming to an end in the 70s………….
Bader what the hell r u talking about