This is a home video shot by an Eastern European family back in the mid 80’s. There are a lot of scenes around Kuwait, I spotted Fahad Al Salem Street in Kuwait City in one scene. There are also some scenes taken during the National Day celebration (no foam!). Not only that but at around 7:15 into the video they have a drive by video of old Salmiya, specifically Salem Mubarek Street where Waleed Toys is! I completely forgot about the Electronic Appliances Corp shop!! Then you get to see the Alamiah store with the MSX being advertised in the display. I wished they had filmed more of Salmiya, it looks really clean and alive in the video, not the like ugly shape it’s in now. [YouTube]
Warning: The video contains scenes of women in bikinis
39 replies on “Kuwait 1984 – 1987”
The 80s 🙂 when Kuwait was beautiful.
The sea looks so clean, unlike now, full of trash, polluted with oil and sewers
Is the family Dutch ?
i dont know, i think they’re eastern European but i might be wrong.
Ahh when Kuwait was Kuwait
hahahaha I love the last part when you say
Note: The source is not Kuwait Times
^_^
i think u meant to post this in the other post
thanks for the warning man
I just translated the video description in google
the language is Polish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_language
Ten film dedykuje dla znajomych z Kuwejtu szczegolnie dla tych co jeszcze zyja.
arabic
هذا الفيديو مخصص للأصدقاء من الكويت ، خصوصا بالنسبة لأولئك الذين لا يزالون على قيد الحياة.
English
This video dedicated to friends from Kuwait, especially for those who are still alive.
am just amazed of how good the quality is!! great video !
WARNING: Video contains men in speedos lol
LOL
I miss Kuwait of the 80’s.
There was a paragraph here, its gone now. Just like the Kuwait in that video.
Nice find Mark! Sure does bring back memories, thanks for that.
20 years ago nobody gave a sh*% if women wore bikinis on the beach, but that was before “foreign influences” came to work on some people’s mentalities….
Wow, Kuwait used to be a neat place with genuine charm. It’s such a shame really.
with the news of the bikini ban doing the rounds, this video will be priceless!
Also: for those people with the above comments saying how beautiful Kuwait was in the 80’s, the 80’s weren’t actually very good times, the 60’s and 70’s were the golden era, so this only shows us how bad things are now 🙁
Allah! The video brought back good memories!
Thanks for posting!
80’s Lee Tshirt FTW 🙂
Mark, you might get fined 1000KD + 1 year in jail for those bikinis! Great video
trolling all the way
It’s only my job
They were wearing bikinis in an isolated beach near Alzour. Nobody felt the presence.
Btw were those Hitlers Youth at the end ?
the sea looks so clean
No Comment….
mark will be fined 1000d or 1 year in jail for each bikini , if i were u i would escape from here right now , looool
i was here on early 80’s but cant remmeber lots of stuff as i left when i was 3 years old but at the end i wish those days on this video come back sounds so neat , thanks for posting
LOL! Loved your warning!! :p
Wow..no one’s staring at the other.
Now everyone is staring at you whether you’re Black or White, Girl or Boy. As if they want to rape you =/
Man, I used to come to Kuwait in those days for my vacation. Did not have to worry much about anything. Crime was at its lowest. You could get into the country at least 2 or 3 foreign liquor bottles and the customs guy would just smile at you politely. Traffic jams was almost non existent. Almost nobody had these supercharged cars with blaring Bass from powerful Subwoofers. About only 10% of the arab population spoke English. VCR’s were the craze and Hulk Hogan ruled almost all the kids imaginations. Even the Showrma sandwiches tasted better. Those were good times. And yes, the 60’s and 70’s were even better !!!
Those are polish folks. Cool video:) They are emphasizing the bananas, which were a luxury in Poland back then.
The celebrations of the National Day of 1986 were probably the best Kuwait ever had, at least in my life time.
Things were at their worst politically, but that didn’t stop people from enjoying the Silver Jubilee of their countries independent 🙂
Polish or Romanian ?
wow man, great quality! They seem like a nice family…
The kid on 00:05 reminded me of myself in 1991, I have a picture beside an American soldier and was wearing the same exact thing!
Man Kuwait was so much fun before the dreaded invasion. THE BEACHES WERE OPEN and CLEAN !
Mark we need a flux capacitor + 1.21 GigaWatts to go back.
Polish 100%
Bikini is normal for Europe
if in Kuwait will set this rule (if this is no’t next stupid journalist joke which harm status of Kuwait in the world) pure Kuwait will be no specialist LoL
Like Saudi no one like Saudi rules I will newer go to country like this, in the word more beautiful country to visit and work.
Those were the days. Many good memories. Thanks Mark
well I was clearly born in the wrong decade.
This video will only be appreciated by the people who grew up in Kuwait in the 80’s. I remember souq salmiya like it was yesterday especially having lunch on the top level of KFC or Tikka on fridays.
Thanks for the video. This is a Polish family and friends. They were just a while before I came there as a teenager. 🙂 There was this tradition of recording films and sending them back home. Everything was so different from what we knew and amazing – hard times in Poland. So almost anything in Kuwait was quite an experience. Great memories and a great movie 🙂