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Posted by Tigerlily (Member # 3567) on :

Posted by Clear and QSY (Member # 15597) on :

Nice. Not one piece of trash on the street in any of those pictures. It's lovely to see what Cairo looks like clean.

Railway station looks the same, but I don't recognize Semiramis Hotel.

Posted by Tigerlily (Member # 3567) on :

So I hope you enjoyed all the photos. Btw I got more..... but another time!! [Big Grin]

Posted by Karen Walker (Member # 11209) on :

thanks tigerlily very interesting

Posted by tina kamal (Member # 13845) on :

them are cool. did u notice the pyramids were still covered in sand.it was way before they started digging in it.

Posted by Tigerlily (Member # 3567) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Clear and QSY:
but I don't recognize Semiramis Hotel.

You observed well.

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/1999/431/tr1.htm

Posted by Dzosser (Member # 9572) on :

Excellent collection TL, thank you..

Notice the names on the shops, all foreign. [Smile]

Its a pity all this has gone to the dogs, ever since Nasser decided everything must go in 1956.

The fall of the humble good Egyptians into this chaotic embarassment.

[Roll Eyes]

Posted by Clear and QSY (Member # 15597) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Tigerlily:

quote:
Originally posted by Clear and QSY:
but I don't recognize Semiramis Hotel.
You observed well.

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/1999/431/tr1.htm

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.

Posted by Dzosser (Member # 9572) on :

Kasr El Nil bridge was rebuilt in the thirties to its present form.

http://egyptedantan.com/egypt.htm

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. [Frown]

Posted by 'Shahrazat (Member # 12769) on :

Nice pics Tiger, thanks for sharing

Posted by GM44 (Member # 13971) on :

thank you, very nice pictures!

Posted by Rahala (Member # 16703) on :

Thank you so much TL!! [Smile]

I really miss my country! [Frown]

and Dzosser ,I think Abdelnasser did the right think ,but he did it wrong!

So sad! [Frown]

Posted by Dzosser (Member # 9572) on :

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.

Posted by Rahala (Member # 16703) on :

^Well, I think he tried and he did good things and bad things ,the international political climate i think !

Posted by Rahala (Member # 16703) on :

^btw,I think Khedive Ismael if lived today would have wanted Cairo to look like Las Vigas [Big Grin]

Posted by Tigerlily (Member # 3567) on :

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.

Posted by Rahala (Member # 16703) on :

^ did not change!

I think Cairo of today and even people of today has nothing to do woth people of Egypt 100 years ago

Posted by Vesuvius (Member # 16853) on :

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.

Posted by ourluxor (Member # 15101) on :

Great postcards. Thanks very nuch for allowing us to enjoy them.