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.
Dzosser Member # 9572
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Kasr El Nil bridge was rebuilt in the thirties to its present form.
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.
'Shahrazat Member # 12769
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Nice pics Tiger, thanks for sharing
GM44 Member # 13971
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thank you, very nice pictures!
Rahala Member # 16703
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Thank you so much TL!!
I really miss my country!
and Dzosser ,I think Abdelnasser did the right think ,but he did it wrong!
So sad!
Dzosser Member # 9572
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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.
Rahala Member # 16703
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^Well, I think he tried and he did good things and bad things ,the international political climate i think !
Rahala Member # 16703
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^btw,I think Khedive Ismael if lived today would have wanted Cairo to look like Las Vigas
Tigerlily Member # 3567
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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.
Rahala Member # 16703
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^ did not change!
I think Cairo of today and even people of today has nothing to do woth people of Egypt 100 years ago
Vesuvius Member # 16853
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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.
ourluxor Member # 15101
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Great postcards. Thanks very nuch for allowing us to enjoy them.
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