Abadan: 50 years ago today!

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Abadan: 50 years ago today!
by Shorts
30-Jul-2009
 

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.

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by fdiba on Fri Jul 31, 2009 07:31 AM PDT

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by Bijan A M on Thu Jul 30, 2009 09:52 PM PDT

Had great times going to AIT in the 60's. Still remember Cinema Taj, Braim, Bovardeh, Boat club, Alfi, Bashgaheh Naft, Ahmad Abad,...

Javani kojaee ke yadet bekheir

Thank you Paul for your post. It made my day....


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ahvazi

Thanks for the pics. Abadan

by ahvazi on Thu Jul 30, 2009 07:47 PM PDT

Thanks for the pics. Abadan was and is a great city.


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Monda

Dear Paul, thanks and hugs to you from afar!

by Monda on Thu Jul 30, 2009 03:55 PM PDT

Sweet old days in Abadan came back to me! Boat Club, Baashgah Golestaan, Braim tennis courts...

I even recognized a few of my dad's acquaintances in some of the issues! I'll go through all of them tonight and will send them around to the other fellow Abadanis.

 


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Khar

Still echos in my mind...

by Khar on Thu Jul 30, 2009 03:39 PM PDT

"INJAA ABADAAN RADIO NAFTEH MELLI" followed by Motzart music.

You just made me cry, Thank You!

Love you Abadaan, You live forever in my soul.


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Jahanshah Javid

Colonial days

by Jahanshah Javid on Thu Jul 30, 2009 03:18 PM PDT

These are wonderful. It's unbelievable how times change. Fifty years ago, Abadan was a little British-American colony of sorts. It had a very different atmosphere compared to the rest of Iran.

Every item in Abadan Today is fascinating. From the Radio Abadan pogram schedule (filled with classical music), to the movie calendar, parties and dances, and even the oil company news are all very interesting. It gives you a good picture of what life was like.

Thanks Paul. You have contributed so much in reviving the human aspct of that period, especially in Abadan.


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