Thanks for your video. Unbelievable how Adana has changed in 60 years. As a newly married couple we moved from Germany to Adana in 1961. My husband had a job with the Americans to work on Incirlik Air Base. At the time Adana had a population of only 500.000. For Europeans and Americans it was a big culture shock then. Many American Military family also lived in town, because there was not enough base housing. No highrise buildings then and lake Baraj was out in nowhere and not surrounded by any buildings. We lived near the railay station and for grocery shopping I walked to the bazaar. To get home with my shopping I hired a horse and carriage, called Arabaji (mind the spelling). You could buy beautiful vegetables, fruits, nuts and spices, but the meat was tough like an old leather boot. There were no European small goods available at that time, because Turkiye didn't import anything. Every 3 month we drove to Aleppo, where you could find those things. At the bazaar you found whole streets of copper smiths, with their beautiful chiseled pots, plates and lamps made out of copper and brass. Streets with only carpet mechants, who sold beautiful handmade carpets and rugs. I still have all my carpets and copper wares from Adana. Shops with clay wares. Other streets were vegetable and fruit vendors, streets who sold spices, nuts, legums etc. Shops who sold only gold. My goodness, so much gold. It looked unreal. It was very pricturesq, nothing like these cheap goods in your video. There was an issue with cloth. Women could not wear pants and shorts or a sun dress and men could not wear shorts, only trousers. Hardly any cars around, because you could not even buy a car. We had to fly back to Germany, buy a car there and drive it down to Adana. When we left the country after 4 years, we had to take the car out of the country. We could not sell it in Adana. Some wealthy Turkish friends had bought a secondhand car outside Turkiye and it was sitting for years at the border with customs, they just were not able to import it. Those were the days. Greetings from Australia.
Very interesting insight and information you are sharing. Thank you so much. Yes, it seems that Adana has changed a lot since then. I kind of liked Adana as a place to visit. It is somehow different than other touristic locations in Turkiye. I hope the city has not suffered a lot from the recent earthquakes.
My thoughts are with these beautiful people, please give what you can in relief of the devastation they have suffered in the wake of the Earthquake, February 2023
Hello bother, Nice footage from Adana. That street is not the redlight district. But it's true that there are many of those shops and clubs there. Continue doing these videos.
Cool, thanks! I guess I stand corrected. I didn't walk through the entire street and alleys. So after seeing many of those shops adjacent to each other, I assumed it must be this part of town.
MaasyaaAllah...I have a friend from Adana. And I always wanna visit Adana, insyaaAllah one day. Thank you for this beautiful video. Enjoy ur Trip 🥰
Thanks for your video. Unbelievable how Adana has changed in 60 years. As a newly married couple we moved from Germany to Adana in 1961. My husband had a job with the Americans to work on Incirlik Air Base. At the time Adana had a population of only 500.000. For Europeans and Americans it was a big culture shock then. Many American Military family also lived in town, because there was not enough base housing. No highrise buildings then and lake Baraj was out in nowhere and not surrounded by any buildings.
We lived near the railay station and for grocery shopping I walked to the bazaar. To get home with my shopping I hired a horse and carriage, called Arabaji (mind the spelling). You could buy beautiful vegetables, fruits, nuts and spices, but the meat was tough like an old leather boot. There were no European small goods available at that time, because Turkiye didn't import anything. Every 3 month we drove to Aleppo, where you could find those things.
At the bazaar you found whole streets of copper smiths, with their beautiful chiseled pots, plates and lamps made out of copper and brass. Streets with only carpet mechants, who sold beautiful handmade carpets and rugs. I still have all my carpets and copper wares from Adana. Shops with clay wares. Other streets were vegetable and fruit vendors, streets who sold spices, nuts, legums etc. Shops who sold only gold. My goodness, so much gold. It looked unreal. It was very pricturesq, nothing like these cheap goods in your video.
There was an issue with cloth. Women could not wear pants and shorts or a sun dress and men could not wear shorts, only trousers. Hardly any cars around, because you could not even buy a car. We had to fly back to Germany, buy a car there and drive it down to Adana. When we left the country after 4 years, we had to take the car out of the country. We could not sell it in Adana. Some wealthy Turkish friends had bought a secondhand car outside Turkiye and it was sitting for years at the border with customs, they just were not able to import it. Those were the days. Greetings from Australia.
Very interesting insight and information you are sharing. Thank you so much. Yes, it seems that Adana has changed a lot since then. I kind of liked Adana as a place to visit. It is somehow different than other touristic locations in Turkiye.
I hope the city has not suffered a lot from the recent earthquakes.
My thoughts are with these beautiful people, please give what you can in relief of the devastation they have suffered in the wake of the Earthquake, February 2023
Thank you 🙏
What a breakfast.
Hello bother, Nice footage from Adana. That street is not the redlight district. But it's true that there are many of those shops and clubs there. Continue doing these videos.
Cool, thanks! I guess I stand corrected. I didn't walk through the entire street and alleys. So after seeing many of those shops adjacent to each other, I assumed it must be this part of town.
Please, when you talk, lower the music voice, as it's very hard to make any sense of what you are saying.
Thanks for the feedback. I will do that.