Saturday, September 12, 2020

Dubai one upon a Time Dubai | Dubai Archives | Dubai old images

0-Water Porter in Dubai 1960
01-Nishant Dance Dubai in 1960
1 Gulf Folk Musicians
5. A man drives past the still-iconic white stone Jumeirah Mosque, which was completed in 1978
6. Cultural landmark Men gather in the al-Naif souq, one of the oldest traditional markets in Dubai. It was partially damaged by a fire in 2008, but the wealthy emirate paid to rebuild the souq in 2010_c1960’s.
8. Dubai's waterways Dhows pictured on the city's creek  was once the center of Dubai's pearl trade and it divides it into two sections pictured below is a crew taking part in a traditional dhow race
9. Dubai in March 1949 for the moment and the arrival of some materials to retailers.
10. Camels on Al Maktoum Bridge in Dubai c_ 1972
11. A man selling dried herbs and lemon pauses to smoke a shisha pipe
14. In the 1950s, when this photo was taken, Dubai remained this small, undeveloped port on the edge of the desert, and the creek began to silt up, perhaps a result of the number of boats that frequented it.
15. Sheraton Dubai Creek Hotel and Towers near Dubai Creek 1978
16. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum at age 10 with his Hunting Coach
17. When a new runway was opened in 1965, the first airplane to land was a Comet, operated by Middle Eastern Airlines
18. An open market in downtown Dubai_c1960’s
19. A group of Bedouin plays music outside a house. Dubai was once a land of Bedouin tribes who made a living by fishing and pearl searching
A Camel caravan ambles through Dubai_c1960’s
A man selling dried herbs and lemon pauses to smoke a shisha pipe By 1892 foreign traders had begun to flock to Dubai after the emirate declared they would be exempt from tax, a move which doubled its population
Dubai-World-Trade-Centre-in-1980s
General Trader Dubai 1960
Homework in Shade, Muscat, 1970s
Men-manually-unload-cement-at-the-‘Cement-Wharf%u2019-near-what-is-now-Port-Rashid.-The-demand-for-cement-skyrocketed-after-oil-was-discovered-in-1966
Old Bedouin Man, 1970sThe Bedouins series
Sheikh Mohammad was appointed head of Dubai Police and Security in 1968 and UAE Minister of Defence after the federation was founded in 1971
Sheikh Zayed bin Nahyan
Sheikh Zayed on holiday in Lausanne, Switzerland, with his sons, Shaikh Hamdan Bin Zayed and Shaikh Hazza Bin Zayed

 Tobacco Vendor, Al Ain, the 1960s

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