Nostalgic pictures from Iran

The first Iranian movie, dokhtar-e Lor 1933.



Iranian movie Hossein-Kord 1960.



Mahasti, Singer



Googoosh, Singer






Women musicians, 19th century



19th century, Dancing girl, Iran


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1920, unveiling of women

Tricycling


train in Tehran


1800, train in Tehran, (Mashin-doodi)

1936, busses in Iran

1957, Baharestan square, Tehran


 Vanak, Tehran early 1920s.

Abadan, Alfi square

Abadan, Shahpur Street at Arvand-rud



Chaloos Road, 1974

1967, Iranian pavillion in Montreal expo, Canada

Inside the Iranian pavillion

Wonderful pictures dear, thanks alot for sharing them.

Surely Iran was better before the revolution.

how could you let mollahs gain power? 

Originally posted by Zagros No, don't let the p[icyures fool you, much of the country was in abject poverty and literacy was only 40% (94% today)

no, I disagree, I don;t say everything was ok,
& so Shah wasn;t man enough.
but conditions were better than now.

& it was 30 years ago, it was going to better situation.
I didn't see that time, but I heard & read about it.
I guessed on that time or distance from europe was less than 50 years
but now, more than 200 years, we are living in Medieval age

az har ki miporsi chera enghelab shod, mige melat khoshi zade bod zire deleshom!



Edited by Land of Aryan

:-)

3rd post: http://www.allempires.com/forum/...tudeh&PN=0&TPN=9

Cyprus, it's much more complicated than that. these (revolutions) is not like reading a novel... you wouldn't understand it unless you lived it.

maybe the second biggest, Shayan, after the Persians' acceptance of Islam 1400 years ago.

I went to Googosh concert few yrs back here in Canada.  she was incredible and still so beautiful; its funny cuz the first thing she did before singing was to proudly display her Iranian passport and the fact that she travelled the world proudly as an iranian and not as a dissident/refugee as many Iranians have done in the past(unfortunately, there where a group of Iranians protesting outside the Music hall against the government of Iran- they were such a buzz kill, harrasing the more than 20,000 spectators who came to see Madame Googoosh-it was innapropriate)  Anyhow, I think Iran was developing at a much faster rate prior to the revolution.  The revolution seems to have stagnated the country and holding it back.  If it didnt happen, Iran would probably be a true regional power, pulling in surrounding countries with its economic & cultural forces(Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Caucasus and central asia), possibly even serving a stabilizing role in the region and most likely would have been the strongest Islamic country in the world today.what an irony?(Iraannnyy)

Edited by watanyaara - 28-Jun-2006 at 18:49