Old Dubai
 

the way it was way back when.
http://www.dubaiasitusedtobe.com/pag...ges/about.shtm

http://www.dubaiasitusedtobe.com/pag...galleries.shtm

very cool site with lots of info and old photos

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yes i'm bored but this is a great site to while away some time on.
jumeirah beach road
http://www.dubaiasitusedtobe.com/pag...h_Road1_fs.jpg
http://www.dubaiasitusedtobe.com/pag..._Aerial_fs.jpg

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Chicago beach hotel. (where the burj al arab and jumeirah beach hotel now are)
http://www.dubaiasitusedtobe.com/pag..._hotel1_fs.jpg

http://www.dubaiasitusedtobe.com/pag..._hotel4_fs.jpg

emirates golf club
http://www.dubaiasitusedtobe.com/pag...ze/egc4_fs.jpg

http://www.dubaiasitusedtobe.com/pag...cbuild1_fs.jpg

http://www.dubaiasitusedtobe.com/pag...cbuild3_fs.jpg

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Dubai's First Traffic Lights
http://www.dubaiasitusedtobe.com/pag...nd_Sons_fs.jpg
"Dubai's Drivers have always been impatient, no more so than when waiting at Traffic Lights. The Drivers used to sound their car horns if they thought the lights were taking too long to change. For no apparent reason the Traffic Lights were switched off between midnight and 6 am. At least the Residents of the nearby Apartment Blocks could get some sleep. However no one needed an alarm clock! Promptly at 6am the car horns started again"

Nothings changed then lol

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wow, these pix are amazing...when are they from shiva...??

MM, xx

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fab Shiva thanks for posting! MM they are part of Len Chapman's collection ;)

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Is that Maktoum Street by any chance???

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i wondered WHEN, but thanks anyway, lol...

MM, xx

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sorry, about 40 years ago ;)

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ahh...thanks again!

MM, xx

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1st one is 60's second one 1971 the next lot lot are 80's and whenever emirates golf club was built. note the lack of DIC, emirates hills, half of um sequim etc

conf,
"Dubai's First Traffic Lights were installed in Al Fahidi Street opposite V V and Sons. Why the lights were installed at this junction is unclear. There was not much traffic plus it was a "T" Junction so not a real test of new Traffic Lights."
"Probably one of the few areas in Dubai that is nearly the same today as it was over 30 years ago. The traffic lights are still there. The same Traders are still there (plus a few more). The traffic flow has changed to a one way system. But the traffic lights stay on all night and no one sounds their car horn anymore when the lights are slow to change!"

http://www.dubaiasitusedtobe.com/pag...lightsend.shtm

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I just love that site, was up early so been right through it ! Chicago Beach Hotel! oh my god! remember going in the 80's, Dad was in a huff cos he had to drive me 'all the way out there' :rofl:

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i love this, cheers shiva

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my best girlfriend at the time went to work as a PA in the Chicago Beach hotel in 1995...was the first time I had ever heard of Dubai I think...weird to think I am now living here...never saw the girlfriend again by the way...lol

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Fantastic. Thanks Shiva

Love the ones by the clocktower as I go past it at least twice a day

http://www.dubaiasitusedtobe.com/pag...locktower.shtm