Kuwait City 1987. Vintage store front.
Mark Lowey (AbuJack), a construction project management professional and an amateur photographer lived in Kuwait between 1985 and 1988. The past few months he’s been scanning and posting some of the pictures he took during his time in Kuwait (and KSA) on his twitter account. I’ve taken a few of his photos along with the captions and shared them here but you can check out more photos on his twitter account @molowey
High technology in 1987?
A man and his dog, Mangaf Beach, Kuwait in 1988.
Shopping in Fahaheel, 1988.
Jack bin Mark and neighbor friends in Mangaf, Kuwait, 1988. (One cool kid has a sling-shot.)
Toshiba power plant at Mina Al-Zoor in southern Kuwait. Under construction in 1985; nearly completed in 1987.
Kids-R-Us, Kuwait City in 1985.
21 replies on “Kuwait 1985-88”
That sling shot was keep us busy back then.. ๐
Beautiful memories
Awesome time period
Golden days! I remember that Pizza Hut in Fahaheel very very well.
Oh wow, I didn’t even think Mangaf existed back then.
Jack’s face in the mangaf photo is epic! He’s like: “dad, I think you should stop now”. Adorable.
Also look at that beach! Miss going to public beaches in Kuwait.
These pics just brought back memories of my childhood. How i miss those days.
Thanks Mark for posting these pics. Great to see how Kuwait looked when i was born.
Great pix dude.. 80’s was frikkin awesome. After a long day at fahaheel garden and then the beach we’d head to that very same hungry bunny…
Awesome post…
I dont think there was a kids r us in kuwait city. we had one in fahaheel and one in farwaniya dajeej
yeah, and salmiya, i just kept his original captions
Also this wasn’t a Kids R US. This is another (local?) store called Kids N US
This was a Kids R Us
https://248am.com/mark/kuwait/kids-r-us-1991/
What thew me of is the name in Arabic. In Arabic is says Kids ‘ู’ Us. Then I realized there is no international brand called Kids R Us or Kids N Us. Its Toys R Us that I was thinking of.
Nonetheless, why would the name in Arabic be ‘ู’ and ‘R’ in english.
Good old days ๐
Amazing! Kuwait was so empty back then, something I always think about. Everywhere you looked was just a lot of empty space, neighborhoods had much less people in them, you had things like that giant Kids R Us (I remember that logo) just taking up space because there was so much of it.
Even heavily packed areas today like South Surra were just desert until recently, I remember not even knowing there was a 6th ring road when I was young.
Those Mangaf kids are probably in their 40s now
That toy shop brings so mani beautiful memories. That Girl wearing a blue dress – it’s embroidered with a outline of The Palm Dubai ๐ฎ
wow
the perfect start of the day
Mark, I own his book. got it used off of ebay some time ago. I’ll hit you up after work and you can have it.
oh he has a book? what is it called?
Wow, it’s great to recall back Kuwait’s memories of the olden times. How amazing it was!
I remember the computer thing (almost forgot about it), this was put up by Al-Alamiah to promote the first Arabic home computer, the MSX-based computer from Yamaha, it was named Al-Sakhr. See this link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakhr_Computers
They used to run a TV advert to promote it back in the mid 1980s.