STOP IT! STOP! STOP!!
STOP destroying the very soul of the city.
STOP tearing down all my memories
STOP demolishing all my past
Why do you have to change every single part of the city? Leave me something that I can connect with. Something that I can relate to.
You know you have been here for a while:-
1. You remember playing games in Sindbad
2. Dixie Cola was a rival to Pepsi. In fact coke wasn't around when i was a kid.
3. You remember Al Ghurar Centre and how it was the only shopping mall around
4. You remember the opening of the first McDonalds at Al Ghurar Centre and the crowds that flocked to it
5. You remember Naif Souk as the main souk in Dubai
6. Trade Centre was a TAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL building and could be seen from miles around
7. The Shindagha Tunnel would often leak and they would regularly close it down for repairs
8. When you'd travel abroad NO ONE knew where Dubai was and you would always have to say things like: " Its next to Saudi or Iran"
9. Sharjah was the happening city and families would go there for their parks
10. Sharjah had that flyover right at the beginning of the city onto wehda street which would make me and my friends 'stomachs tickle' every time you would cross it. We nicknamed it 'tickle bridge'.
11. Dubai -Sharjah highway had a very famous and popular site now is hidden by all the construction. The KFC and Hardeez restaurants which became a family hangout spot.
12. You know you are a kid from dubai if you remember the biggest toy store back then: Dhadabai ( dunno if i got the spelling right) . There was a huge store located opposite present day Hamarain Centre/ JW Marriott.
13. channel 33 used to air a hindi film at 10:30 on thursday nights
14. there was a falcon roundabout just as you come out of shindagha tunnel and a flame roundabout near present Danata
15. The expo centre in Sharjah was the most happening place in the late 80's. Everyone would come from all over to watch the circus, shop, eat, the ice creams.
16. We were waiting Dubai channel to open with the national rhythm/ Quran and then the cartoons AT 4:00 PM every day.
17. The cartoons, remember Grundaizer & Jungar and Captain Majid
18. Sharjah fish and vegetable market pretty much remains unchanged thru the decades.
19. Al Ain fun ( Haili) city was our Disney land! Al Nasr Leisureland ( and you could ice skate) was next, followed by Al Jazeera Park in SHJ.
20. Majallet Majed was our weekly attractive childhood magazine for all of our generation, we literally grew up with its stories and characters.
21. Hardrock cafe was the first and ONLY 'sky scraper' on SZR you saw when coming from Abu Dhabi
22. The road to Abu Dhabi was two-lane and had speed humps
23. It took 15mins. from Deira to Safestway via Shindaga
24. Safestway was originally called Safeway but had to change its name
2 comments:
Yum Yum Corner was THE snack shop at Al Ghurair Center.
If you were a teenager BMX bicycle was the ultimate thrill ride that you could get.
Al Mullah Plaza was another hangout point. (I have'nt been their till today)
Thats True.. I remember who we were dying to get that bicycles & were doing good at schools only bcoz my father promised to buy one if we got good grades.. good addition pal.. by the way your blog is very nice.. very colourful and spiritual photos as well ( thumps Up)
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