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- This video contains film footage of Oman, capital area as it was in February - March 1980. Muscat was still surrounded by the old town wall and there was no Al Bustan Palace Hotel yet. There were no traffic lights.
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May be in the future I will post more on OmanAdjo, but I don't have many more old movies of Oman.
Uploader and owner of the video (and original 8mm film) is me, so thank you as well. You can see me as I looked 33 years ago in the Nizwa-film of this youtube-account (Film 003). So now you probably wouldn't recognize me if you met me. Also: I'm living in The Netherlands (Rotterdam - Holland). I still visit Oman sometimes (like January - February 2013), but now as a tourist.
Thanks to whoever captured and uploaded the video !!! No doubt its a very rare video reminding of the times we can never bring back!!!
Hi fredders77, it took some time to process your reaction because we were away for a month to visit Ethiopia again. Thank you for reacting.
Regards from OmanAdJo.
Thank you so much for posting these videos. Oman has been home for me since 2007. My colleagues love watching. It brings them back to simpler times. The Oman Plaza Cinema almost brought one chap to tears. Keep posting please!
thank you. this made me SO home sick. I am from India but grew up in Oman (19 yrs)....I left in 1993 and came to the US and haven't been home since. I miss it so much. Your video shows the older Oman I miss most. From videos and pics, I see of it in the present, it appears to have lost some of its mystique. Great music selection too BTW.
Amazing rare footages, my parents, my uncles and aunts lived this era around Wadi Kabeer area, they tell me how it looked like before, but I could not imagine. Watching such footages really shows us how people lived back then. It also shows how Muscat developed quick, his majesty has done a lot to improve this country. Thanks to the help from you foreigners back then when we lacked the expertise to develop. I hope you and your family doing well.
Thanks for sharing this old footage. Was in Oman circa 1982 and you've reminded me of Al Bustan (an empty beach then, with Omani children in trad clothes on occasion selling lavender wrapped up in palm leaves ) and the old dirt road pass over to Qantab, which I think you needed a 4x4 for, as it was quite steep and ordinary taxis couldn't always make it over. I remember too, the old city walls near the Palace, Ruwi, with cars often gridlocked at the T-junction (or was it a crossroads ?) near the Oman Plaza Cinema at weekends, Triumphal arches on roads lit up on National Days to show the Omani flag, and the strong smell of fish being landed at the quay near Muttrah's corniche. Omani forts like Nizwa were all crumbling mud-bricks (I think only the forts near the Royal Palace were rendered then). Mystery and curios everywhere, like a small old rusting cannon lying by the side of the road in Tanuf, untouched in the 2 years I was there ! Had a great time, and still have not tasted food as good as the all-you-can-eat for 800 Baiza Indian food in Ruwi High Street. Hope someone invents time travel !
Sorry for replying late. Oman is still our favorite country, now in 2019! Isn't that incredible?
You have treasured a moment from our history. Thanks for sharing. The new generation in Oman will cherish this video :)
Having grown up in the mid 80s in Ruwi, i do remember this place like how the videoshows. Thank you uploader for uploading this. Made me nostalgic.
Very well covered the entire video of 1980.I was born in muscat in 1963 (mission hospital). My dad served for B. B. M. E muscat for nearly 27 yrs. I would request u to show more videos of old muscat during 70 and 80s period.
Lived out in Muscat with my family around this time, I was young but some vivid memories, Dad looked after the Kodak lab there. We lived at the al falaj hotel for a bit, then PDO Heights, and Ruwi.
Thank you very much to upload this video about Oman .
Great video. Brings back memoiries
@cheekoo911 Great time. Oman is still a very good country nowadays. We always like to go there.
@muneerzadjali Thank you.
The year we moved to Omn
@cheekoo911 In Ruwi? No, in Rotterdam, which is quite different.
G.m, thanks for nice Video, I hope you have some pics about rain, floods when you was in Oman in that period, please tell me If you have it
@cheekoo911 Because I am Dutch. Holland (The Netherlands) is my home country.
Thank you you are welcome. I have added a few links to newer Oman videos that I have made. See the description of this video (above).
@OmanAdJo
i really miss oman ruwai... markets,bulidings,rocks.. etc do you live in ruwai?
I like this video thank you omanAdJo
i would love to get in touch with the author of this footage. Knowing that he captured something of out lives that is beautiful.
can anybody help me please?
@shoru72 Thanks.
I worked in Oman 1981 for Omani-American Joint Commission for Economical Development
amazing video .....
Thank you. We do.
Hi,
How are you :)
Hope will be Fine ..
Can we have some chat regarding your these videos :) about Oman
Hi. Sorry for replying late. What would you like to know?
@OmanAdJo
ohh ok..Rotterdam is beautiful.. why did you move from Ruwai to Rotterdam? do you use facebook?
Yes, I can help you, because I am the author and owner of the footage. I use 2 user codes on TH-cam, which are "OmanAdjo" and "Zrisky". After succes with my films on "Zrisky" and several requests from Omani people through TH-cam I decided recently to start "OmanAdjo", especially for my Oman films (for as far as I have some). You can look up my TH-cam video's based on these user codes.
Is this ur personal photoge?I mean u took it by ur self?
Yes. It's a private 8mm film that I recorded.
@michchristy Thank you. Great (still great) to be in Oman so now and then. But in fact I should now start posting films about the present Oman on TH-cam. It takes much time and effort though to edit films. On my (other) youtube account a-d-j-o-f-i-l-m (without the hyphens) I have also posted amongst others, films from India and other places and one of the Sultan Qaboos mosque.
i was in mucat ruwai in 80s
WHY do my videos cut off. The vision goes black but the s9und keeps on?
No idea. Here it works well. (Netherlands.)
Sure the fruit seller was a malabari (kerala..lndia).😀😃
WHY do my videos cut off. The vision goes black but the s9und keeps on?