A blast of the past was shared on Twitter of Dubai’s simple life in the late 1990s and it will make you feel a certain way….
14 October 2018
| Last updated on 14 January 2020
Nostalgia is a shared feeling with everyone as they grow older – life in the past was simpler and many people miss that
A photographer on Twitter shared snapshots of a street near his house in Dubai and it has quickly made everyone in Dubai feel nostalgic.
If you’ve lived in the emirate from the late 1990s onwards, you may recognise what a typical day in Dubai must have been like.
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And if you’re a millennial baby, these pictures will show you how life was prior to the glitz and glam of Dubai’s skyscrapers and extravagant malls.
These four pictures were shared on Saturday and have already gotten more than 224 likes and 144 retweets on Twitter.
In what seems to be a residential street in Umm Sequim or Jumeirah, children are seen playing in the streets while vintage cars drive passed them.
Recognise these cars?
How about the bus stop sign?
Dubai with no skyscraper in sight
Pretty sure everyone had these swings while growing up
