Kuwait - 1982 Or 2006?
Update (2nd September): I have received information pertaining to the following pictures. They are by Mr. Dennis Sylvester Hurd. All of Mr. Hurd's photographs can be found at this LINK.
I received these stills concerning Kuwait, circa 1982, via email today.
The sad reality is Kuwait has not changed much in almost 25 years has it?
Comments
I love Kuwait. I don't want it to change. I want it stuck in a timewarp. If it changes, we will get taxes, urban crime, inflation and more traffic.
We must all work to be the Amish of the Gulf. I am not being sarcastic, I am serious.
Posted by: Don Veto | August 29, 2006 7:38 PM
Veto, Everything you are afraid of is already happening: crime is up (embezzlement, rapes, murders etc), traffic is at an all time high, services and utilities are decrepit, etc.
We are gaining the ills of time but not the development or advantages that are supposed to stem from them.
And taxes are on the way :(
Posted by: amer | August 29, 2006 8:23 PM
That is why we must work towards the past and not for the future, they where better more basic times.
Posted by: Don Veto | August 29, 2006 8:31 PM
Beautiful pics
Posted by: Jandeef | August 29, 2006 11:54 PM
Fascinating pictures :D
Posted by: 3baid | August 30, 2006 12:36 AM
Of course Kuwait has changed - and the change is staggering in the last 5-10 years.
The skyline as viewed from the coast is everchanging.
Crime is up: all kinds.
It has become one crowded mess.
There is alot of physical change going on albeit haphazard - but there is no constructive planning. It all seems to be on impulse.
Posted by: jewaira | August 30, 2006 3:28 AM
Alot of things during that period was great. But, Kuwait did change, just drive around the gulf road and visit salmiya and hawalli.
A part of me agrees with Don Veto, but i would like us to jump ahead of other countries and provide good services for the people.
P.S. I like that pizza hut picture where it says : thick and chewy...!!!! lol
Posted by: SHADOW | August 30, 2006 7:24 PM
Ofcorz kuwait has changed...in 1982, I was 1 year old and I was in my home country....2006, I am here in lovely kuwait and I am 25 years old...so thats a good thing...LOL...(dont relate my arrival to rapes, murders and traffic problems...LOL)
Posted by: CyberRowdy | August 31, 2006 4:22 PM
"in 1982, I was 1 year old"
In 1982 I was listening to "Shalamar," watching "Shogun" on KTV2 and hanging out at "Pizza Italia" and the old "Movenpick."
Damn, you make me feel ancient.
Posted by: amer | August 31, 2006 7:09 PM
ha movenpick!
Posted by: some like it hot | September 1, 2006 8:17 PM
The people in charge have to spend and take care of our 'kut.' This is not happening.
Posted by: Bu Ibd3er | September 2, 2006 2:20 PM
I loved that last picture its from Al Bayan School in Jabriyah. I loved those days :)
Posted by: Spicy Pepper | September 4, 2006 1:14 PM