Comments on: Gulf Road circa 1960

By: Old photo of a gas station

Old photo of a gas station — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:43:40 +0000

[...] is a new photo Eng.Aljamea has uploaded onto his flickr account. The previous one was the Gulf Road picture and this time its a picture of a gas station. There is no date mentioned but I guess it could be [...]

By: Name is Bond

Name is Bond — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:02:10 +0000

Nostalgic!!

By: Desert Girl

Desert Girl — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:28:11 +0000

Holla, now they are selling Red Label on poorly lit streets in Salmiya from rolling stops in their Jaguars!

By: Q8Sultana

Q8Sultana — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:24:10 +0000

Is that the mosque with the ugly pink/yellow fast food restaurant right next to it opposit Souq Sharq?
I like old pics like this..

By: Holla

Holla — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:51:04 +0000

You know back in those days some aspiring young Kuwaitis would load up vans full of beer and go sell it on the beach. How times change to the fucking worse…

By: khalid

khalid — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:16:59 +0000

i have some old pics of kuwait in those days that my mother gave me, i will scan them in and email them to you

By: U2

U2 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:04:59 +0000

I belive Mark is right about the location… it seems the Shouq Sharq Intersection!

By: viewer

viewer — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:50:00 +0000

شي عجيييييييييييب

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:19:09 +0000

only part of the gulf i know with a mosque that close to the sea is near souk sharq.

By: Mathai

Mathai — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:05:58 +0000

cool!
@mentabolism, Bu Yousef did something similar in London, I’m guessing if we take that mosque tower as a reference point we could take a ‘then and now’ picture :)

By: Desert Girl

Desert Girl — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:17:39 +0000

I heard that Blajaat street used to be just like that too – with small cafe restaurants close to the sea. Kuwaitis are still driving VW Bugs! :)

By: mentabolism

mentabolism — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:51:26 +0000

anyone know where exactly this is….just so that someone can click a picture and compare then and now….