I think these are the oldest photos I’ve seen of Kuwait on Flickr. There are only three images in this set but they’re great ones, here are their links:
Sailor in Kuwait
Camel in Kuwait carrying fuel for cooking
Sailing into Kuwait
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The “Sailing into Kuwait” shot is not Kuwait. It’s probably Oman or Fujairah (UAE).
Wow ! amazing
pure – peace – simplicity … LIFE !
the sailing into kuwait picture does not look like kuwait, more like yemen or oman
I was gona say it but ” asfdsg ” beat me to it just before I though of it
his EXACT WORDS … (:
nice Photos though
wow so primitive. Can’t believe how we went that far …
Am kinda happy i didn’t live at that time ..i mean no TV no PC no 248am ;p life sucks without those haha
Sailing into Kuwait is not Kuwait
The 1st and 2nd photo could have easily been somewhere in modern day Kuwait.
Hey,
The man whose pictures they are (Alan Villiers) also wrote a book about Gulf (including Kuwaiti) sailors. It’s called “Sons of Sinbad.”
https://www.amazon.com/Sons-Sinbad-Zanzibar-Tanganyika-merchants/dp/B0006BZ4B8
Can one more person please tell us that the “Sailing into Kuwait” is not Kuwait? Please? Seriously.
I love Kuwait no matter when, in the past, present or in the future. God bless Kuwait.
I think that the first 2 photos are not in Kuwait. Maybe Oman or prob Yemen ;P LOOL… but seriously that old guy’s body… latgooly Platinium… moo 9ij! ;P
I see lots of sand looool.
you should see “Bas ya Bahar movie” :r
The “Sailing into Kuwait” picture is actually a picture of Matrah Bay in Oman. The photos, as someone correctly pointed out, are by Alan Villiers who wrote a fantastic narrative called Sons of Sinbad in which he recalls his several month-long journey on a Kuwaiti boom from Yemen to Zanzibar and then back to Kuwait. Very, very interesting and readable stuff.
For you photophiles, Villiers also published his photos from his trip in a separate book called (surprise, surprise!) “Sons of Sinbad: the Photographs.” Well worth having, believe me.
Anyone who wants to buy either or both can do so through the Center for Research and Studies on Kuwait, which is in Mansouriyah, right next door to the British Council (on the same street as Nadi Al-‘Arabi). The prices are very reasonable, and you won’t be able to find either of these books anywhere else!