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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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Web Links about Dubai as it used to be

  • You know you've lived in Dubai for ages when... When what? Go to this Facebook site and find out! Some great photos of Old Dubai (including some of mine).
  • www.thedukeofdubai.com New Novel about Old Dubai based on 1970s personal experiences. Idealistic American uproots family, moves to Dubai, becomes oil company school headmaster, meets eccentric ex-oilman and powerful wealthy people, searches for fortune, confronts Iranian patrol boats, Yemeni extremists, Arab Jinns (spirits), ruthless gun-smuggling Bedou. And that's only Page One! Order your copy now!
  • www.anitavanderkrol.com Remarkable series of Unique Original Photos taken in late 1970s by a Dutch Expat recording Dubai People going about their everyday lives.
  • Dubai as it really used to be in 1977! Photos from the late 1970s of Old Dubai showing Diera and Jumeriah Beaches as they used to be. Well worth a visit - or two!
  • Modern Dubai Photos of New Dubai taken during 2006. Not the usual Dubai Photo Gallery.
  • Modern Photos of Old Dubai. Photos of historic and heritage sites in Dubai and surrounding areas plus New Dubai.
  • Saudi Aramco Dubai Photo Archives Many photos of Old and New Dubai. Takes time to load but worth the wait.
  • 1986 Article on Dubai From a Saudi Aramco publication about Dubai's development in the 1980s.
  • Mike Thompson Mike Thompson's personal site. He worked in Old Dubai. Fascinating 1970s photos of Old Dubai.
  • George Bell's photos and personal experiences in Dubai and Abu Dhabi from the 1960s
  • Harry's Stuff Harry from Cornwall UK lived and worked in Dubai in late 1960s. Good quality photos from those days plus a really good 1960s photo of Al Nasr Square.
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