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Re: Baghdad 1950s and Tehran 1950s (Nostalgia) -- check out the U.S. cars!
Posted by Marcello (Guest) - Sunday, September 11 2016, 22:30:11 (UTC)
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I only remember the 1970s in Tehran and it was similar to Pancho's description of Baghdad in the '50s. It was a different world. I recall how each morning the milkman delivered a glass (not plastic!) bottle of milk at our front door, and during the winter when the streets were covered in snow, we'd huddle together with the rest of the neighbors watching Hassan Agha the baker make our Barbari bread from scratch, while the heat from the old stone ovens kept us all warm and happy. People worked from Sunday to Thursday, with Fridays off for Jummah. But the working day ended sometime around lunchtime, when everyone went home to eat with the family, nap and later wake up and head out to the corner Qah'va Khana (coffee house) to sip on Qah'va Turk or tea while playing Takhta and discussing politics and sports. Our next door neighbors were Jewish, we were Catholic with crosses and pictures of Isho on almost each and every wall, and the downstairs family were Muslim, while the landlord was Baha'i. The nightlife beginning in the 1940s when the Yanks, the Brits and the Soviets invaded Iran, lasted until 1979. I remember going to a cabaret with my family where Norman Wisdom entertained us and the famous Persian Arabic dancer Jamileh danced on our table. There were so many clubs, theatres, outdoor cafes, delis, street vendors selling barbacued Jeegar (liver), and cinemas which played Iranian movies, Hollywood pictures, Bollywood (Iranians love Raj Kapoor), and European art films... and of course there was Shareh-No (Red Light District). It is a lost world and as your relative mentioned, it was a golden period, an exciting time, whether one lived in Iran, Iraq or Kuwait.



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