Valencia of yesteryear
 

Some great pictures on this blog

http://valenciadesaparecida.blogspot.com.es/

Re: Valencia of yesteryear
 

Nice Steve, really nice. Love this sort of thing, our walls are covered in old black and white pics.

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http://realbenidorm.net/guide-benidormhistory2.html

Benidorm's changed a bit as well.
Still had fruit plantations almost down to the Levante beach in 1960

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http://expediatenerifeproperty.wordp...y-it-once-was/

These old Los Cristianos shots are brilliant, really well worth a look, CLICK on the FIRST one to get a full size image,then CLICK on through them.

Amazing quality for old B&W photos.

Note the old straw houses, caves in Guaza mountain, (some waiters living in them when I first moved down there), also I recall the banana plantation right to the beach, a herd of goats used to wander along the prom, a farm just behind with some dairy cows and a military area close by where training exercises were still held.......also a few Spanish warships in the bay, should please Gib.Fred. ;)



Las Americas didn't exist,not even a single building, just a gravel beach and a few salt beds.

The Swedes first got Los Cris moving with their rehab centre still going strong today.

Oh and a great shot of Liz Taylor and Richard Burton in one of the very first hotels.

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Nice pictures there, Dick! We sometimes forget how much has changed over the years.

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I love old photos. There is a site with old photos of the CDS. Not just all the changes but how quickly they all seemed to happen.