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Old Bastakia


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Water Tower
Dubai's Water Towers
Dubai's Domestic Water System 1970s.
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Bastakia's Wind Towers.
Derelict Demolished Restored.
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Captain's Store
Captain's Stores.
Cameras Binoculars Smuggling.
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Chicago Beach Hotel
Chicago Beach Hotel.
Popular but Demolished.
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Clock Tower
Dubai's Clock Tower.
The Story Behind the Tower.
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Dubai's Water
Finding Water for Dubai.
Dubai's First Domestic Water System.
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First Traffic Lights
Dubai's First Traffic Lights.
They didn't work at night!.
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Sheikh Saeed's House
Sheikh Saeed's House.
Derelict prior to Restoration.
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Port Rashid Terminal Opening
Sheikh Rashid.
Opening Port Rashid Container Terminal.
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Creek Raft Race
Dubai Creek Raft Race.
First Race in 1971.
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Dubai's First Power Station
Dubai's First Power Station
Demolished
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Port Rashid
Port Rashid.
Chapter 2
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Dubai's Police
Dubai's Traffic Police.
Dealing with new Technology
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Dubai's Markets
Dubai's Markets
Before Supermarkets
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Kazan
Dubai's Kazans.
An Engineering Marvel
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Dubai Lady
Dubai's People
Shopping Dubai 1970s
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Jumeirah Beach Road
Jumeirah Beach Road
How it was in 1968
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Wadi Portrait
Wadi Portrait.
When Dubai was innocent!
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First Show Jumping
First Show Jumping
Dubai Metropolitan Hotel 1987
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Hard Rock Cafe
Hard Rock Cafe
Demolished??????
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Dubai Grand Prix
Dubai Grand Prix.
Motor Racing comes to Dubai 1981
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Al Fahidi Fort
Al Fahidi Fort.
Dubai's best Museum
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Emirates Golf Club
Emirates Golf Club.
Dubai's Premier Golf Course.
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Dubai Post Office
Dubai's Post Office.
Postal Order Process!
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Dubai Creek
Dubai's Creek
How it used to be 1963
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Dubai Defense Force
Dubai Defense Force
On Parade in Jumeirah 1972
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Dubai Country Club
Dubai Country Club
Demolished 2007
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Dubai Creek
Bait Al Wakheel
Dubai's First Office Building
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Creek Cargo Wharves
Dubai's Wharves
Where Dubai used to make its money
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Cycle Dubai
Cycle Dubai
Cycling come to Dubai
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Dubai Dirt Donksl
Dubai's Motorbike First
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Queen Elizabeth 2
Britannia in Dubai.
Queen Elizabeth 2 State Visit
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Al Maktoum Bridge
Al Maktoum Bridge
Opening 1969
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Bastakia
Bastakia
Before it was restored
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Dubai's People
Dubai's People
As they used to be
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Dubai Airport Immigration
Dubai Airport
Immigration and Customs
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Dubai's Power Station
Duba's First Power Station
Demolished!!!!
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Dubai Car Crash
Dubai's Police
Car Crash 1970s Style
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Dubai's Trade Center
Dubai's World Trade Centre
Dubai's First Hi Rise
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Dubai 1972
As it used to be!

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The Old "New" Dubai Airport

New Dubai Airport 1971At the end of the 1960s Dubai was a small (100,000 population) but ambitious City State. Old Dubai Airport was inadequate to meet Dubai's growing needs. The Ruler Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum commissioned Architects Page and Broughton to design a Terminal that could meet projected air-transport but, more importantly, persuade international airlines to use Dubai as a Hub and Transit Airport.

Costain Civil Engineering, Ltd., of London was awarded the $10 million construction contract. The new Terminal opened in 1971.

The Airport Terminal Design

The new Dubai International Terminal was ahead-of-its-time in providing passenger facilities to handle modern jumbo aircraft. Restaurants and kitchens serving 400, free-zone shopping area and sleeping accommodations for stranded travelers were provided plus the ground services and refueling were also extensive. The Terminal did not use the traditional decorative motifs but employed a visually open and vaulted structure to create an arabesque quality. 56 lightweight, insulated "umbrella" units of glass-reinforced plastic framed by steel supported on reinforced concrete columns formed the roof. The dome over the VIP lounge is also reinforced plastic.

Dubai's First Flyover

Arrival and Departures were handled on the second level of the three-level terminal on an elevated roadway. Road traffic accessed the Terminal via a flyover (the first in the UAE) from the main road with open air car parking at ground level. Passengers access from the Terminal to the aircraft was by spiral ramps. The ramps were shaded from the sun but the passengers still exposed to the heat and humidity.

SkyJacking comes to Dubai

Security was not high on the list of Airport Terminal design requirements in the late 1960s. It proved remarkably easy for HiJackers to break through Dubai Airport Security perimeter and access aircraft on the tarmac. There were around five such incidents. The good news was these hi-jackings gave Dubai worldwide publicity.

The New Dubai Airport Terminal Version2

The first "New" Airport Terminal quickly proved to be too small to cope with Dubai growing passenger traffic. The Terminal underwent at least two major developments before the decision was made to build a totally new Dubai International Airport

Sheikh Rashid