So I hope you enjoyed all the photos. Btw I got more..... but another time!! Posts: 30135 | From: The owner of this website killed ES....... | Registered: Feb 2004
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them are cool. did u notice the pyramids were still covered in sand.it was way before they started digging in it.
-------------------- your ass is so tight when you fart only a dog can hear it.when you queef only a cat can hear that one. Posts: 9776 | From: You like If only mosquitoes sucked fat instead of blood. | Registered: Jul 2007
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Yeah I thought that old building had been torn down. I was thinking that when I was looking at your pictures. New Semiramis way too modern.
Another thing that always strikes me when I see the old pictures is the lion statues on Qasr el Nil bridge. How much that area has changed. It looked so small then and the lions looked huge...now the lions seem lost among all the people and traffic on that bridge. It looked so quaint back in the day. Like a nice place to take a walk. Now it's one of the most difficult places to try to walk.
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Click on Le Caire then on Zamalek and move on to see the sequence of events throughout those days.
I once added this link on ES, its in French. Posts: 3219 | From: Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone. | Registered: Nov 2005
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All those beautiful buildings were Khedive Ismail's idea of wanting Cairo to be 'Un Petit Paris' he did a wonderful job, foreigners loved Egypt because it was a safe, climatically adjusted and commercially centered spot, let alone its unique riches and friendly natives. Nasser did in as little as 14 years (1956-1970) what no Zionist could have achieved in a century, and if that particular Zionist, were to systematically dismantle the Egyptian persona.
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^Well, I think he tried and he did good things and bad things ,the international political climate i think !
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^btw,I think Khedive Ismael if lived today would have wanted Cairo to look like Las Vigas Posts: 2417 | From: Cairo | Registered: Jun 2009
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Whenever I look at the postcards I am amazed that within the last 70 to 100 years actually nothing really changed and I believe that's why Cairo is so attractive to many - it's like walking the streets of the past.
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I think Cairo of today and even people of today has nothing to do woth people of Egypt 100 years ago
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I think the pictures both Rahala and TL have posted are amazing.
At first I thought how great the place looked, and how wonderful it would have been to walk on those streets.
I noticed all the foreign influence and that made me a little sad, but the place was well kept in those days.
Then I thought, but hang on, I am a woman...How many women are walking in the pictures?
So when you contrast the idylic pictures of the past with todays pictures of over populated, and over polluted Cairo. One good thing has emerged, and that is the role that women play in society, and quite possibly their quality of life.
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