These are the last photos I have from the KOC archive and they’re of the Ahmadi Drive-In Theater before it opened. In the photos the drive-in construction had been completed and looks like they were installing the AC system and setting up the projectors.
If you want to see how the theater looks like today, I passed by back in 2012 and took some photos. You can check that post [Here]. Not sure what the state of the theater is today, there were rumblings that it was going to get demolished to build a new mall. I know it sounds like I’m joking but I’m not, thats actually what I had heard.
To check out all the photos I’ve shared so far from the KOC archive, click [Here]
12 replies on “The KOC Archive: Ahmadi Drive-In Theater”
I really wish they would bring this back. This is the best part of Kuwait back in the days.
And this is why Kuwaiti children don’t know anything about their country’s history other than the invasion stories, because all the historical sights are being demolished!! How stupid and greedy can one get ?! other countries do their best at preserving artifacts still intact from the bronze age, and yet Kuwait can’t even take care of a 30 something year old building. Sad human beings.
Its not getting demolished. Still standing.
No change, the place is exactly how it was in your 2012 post, nothing demolished, nothing new coming up either.
Hi Mark
Are you still updating archive photographs, if you are I would love to see some photographs of the small boat owners association SBOA competitions at the beach where we used to take park in races etc on the beach.
Hello! I love checking out abandoned places, can you tell me where it is located?
And thank you for sharing 😀
Hello,
I was wondering do you have a contact where I could get any photographs of old cinemas in Kuwait?
Kind Regards
Leona
I had worked in KOC for 18 years. The Ahmadi Drive-In Cinema was repaired after the invasion. It was used for only a few years.
I was born in the old Magwa Nissan hut hospital in 1956..I went to the Anglo American school until 8 then off to boarding school..fo d memories of the Hubara Club, the boat Club near Fahheel and the Suq..
You must have been in my class Stu as I was born in Magwa in 1956
Do you remember Miss Watters, the scary teacher at the Anglo American school and the cocoa drink we all had at break times from tin mugs ? ( possibly not !)
Im Lynne Jones..my brother Phil was in the year above
We used to go to Spinneys in Ahmadi for local shopping ( living on 15 main street)
Such carefree days at the Families Beach at weekends…the Hubara club after school..the car rallys our parents enjoyed in the desert..so many trips back and forth to UK on annual leave…I still have my blue BOAC junior Jet club book somewhere !
Amazing to have stumbled across these photos to bring back the past !
I was born in magwaa Kuwait 1960 before the opening of the southwell hospital in ahmadi I then went to mrs martins
Daycare and from there onto Anglo American school till 1971 and from there onto boarding school in England. Kuwait has and always have a special place in my heart . I went back to Kuwait in 2015 for the first time since 1980 and I can say I cried on the plane when it flew over our home in ahmadi as it was approaching the airport. As a kid I flew on almost every single aircraft you shared pictures of but my favourite of them was the picture of the twin pioneer which was flown by captain Toumi our neighbour and a captain for Kuwait oil company ( KOC ). One day he took my dad and I flew only the 3 of us on that twin pioneer. Oh the sweet memories. Hubara club sboa tombola nights and working as a lifeguard at the hubara club during my summer holidays ( trained by mrs Stanley).
I was born in magwaa Kuwait 1960 before the opening of the southwell hospital in ahmadi I then went to mrs martins
Daycare and from there onto Anglo American school till 1971 and from there onto boarding school in England. Kuwait has and always will have a special place in my heart . I went back to Kuwait in 2015 for the first time since my dad retired in 1980 and I can say I cried on the plane when it flew over our home in ahmadi as it was approaching the airport. As a kid I flew on almost every single aircraft you shared pictures of but my favourite of them was the picture of the twin pioneer which was flown by captain Toumi our neighbour and a captain for Kuwait oil company ( KOC ). One day he took my dad and I and flew only the 3 of us on that twin pioneer. Oh the sweet memories. Hubara club sboa tombola nights and working as a lifeguard at the hubara club during my summer holidays ( trained by mrs Stanley).