Links to Dubai as it used to be!
These links will take you to Websites with content 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.
