Nine issues of the weekly newspaper Abadan Today from July 1958 and July 1959 have been uploaded here.
The issues posted here are July 9, 16, 23 and 30, 1958, and July 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29, 1959 — 50 years ago today!
I plan to post links to a new set of issues here each month during the coming year. Each of these files is a PDF that is around 1.25 megabytes in size. A notice about these has also been posted to the Abadani social net.
Anyone who has lived in Abadan is welcome to join that site. Enjoy! — Paul Schroeder pauls@commoncoordinates.com
Earlier posts: In 1958 my father, Charles R. Schroeder, moved to Abadan, Iran with his family: his wife and my mother Lois, their daughter and my sister Ellen, and me, their son Paul. I was just short of my 12th birthday when I arrived in Abadan. While in Iran my father took over 400 Kodachrome slides of Abadan and its region, and also of a 2-week trip around Iran that we took as a family. Photo-essays about these are hosted at Iranian.com — please see Memories of an American Boy, Khuzestan 1958-1960, and Little Mother of Abadan. A selection of slides showing Tehran, Caspian Region, Esfahan, Shiraz and Persepolis was posted March 4, 2009, at The Iranian, titled Another Time, Another World. This set (plus several not published by The Iranian) are also available in a one-page display of thumbnails that link to the photos, in the approximate order of the trip, at Iran, 1959 — 132 Views.
