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30 Years Ago, Doha Looked Completely Different

Jul 26, 2021, 12:48 IST

Here is gleaming Doha today.

Flush with oil money, the city is now a busy metropolis.

It hosts tennis tournaments...

Film festivals...

And soccer matches.

There are now at least 10 five-star hotels.

Doha's strategic location on the Persian Gulf has also brought in tremendous revenue.

And there is no sign it is slowing down.

It wasn't always this way...

In the 1980s, minarets were Doha's tallest structures.

Whatever construction was occurring was not exactly on the same scale as it is now.

Here's what the Port of Doha used to look like. "All the foreground buildings have since been demolished," DesertBlooms says.

More port.

How Doha residents used to live. "Having viewed Google Earth, i can say with near 99.99% certainty that on this spot there now stands a very large apartment block," DesertBlooms says.

More.

And one more.

Another view of a central residential district.

Overlooking the Doha airport at night.

View of the Qatar National Museum. "Today the whole siteis being redeveloped. The main old palace remains but everything else has been demolished as part of a very grand NEW NATIONAL MUSEUM OF QATAR," DesertBlooms writes.

More Doha towerblocks.

Looking west across the rooftops in Doha, toward the Ramada Hotel in the distance.

Only recently demolished this was a popular hotel in its day, with its neighbor the Gulf Hotel, now the Doha Marriott.

A roof top view across Doha in this lovely time exposure on a clear warm middle eastern evening.

The Emir of Qatar's Jet, 80's chic.

Doha sunset.

The Mercury Grand Hotel. "This area today is so very very different, in that the whole place is tower blocks... apart from the two story buildings on either side of the road at centre."

An aerial view. "How it has changed since."

A plane lands.

A program for the Doha auto show.

Finally, the Sheraton hotel then...

30 Years Ago, Doha Looked Completely Different

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30 Years Ago, Doha Looked Completely Different

Here is gleaming Doha today.

Flush with oil money, the city is now a busy metropolis.

It hosts tennis tournaments...

Film festivals...

And soccer matches.

There are now at least 10 five-star hotels.

Doha's strategic location on the Persian Gulf has also brought in tremendous revenue.

And there is no sign it is slowing down.

It wasn't always this way...

In the 1980s, minarets were Doha's tallest structures.

Whatever construction was occurring was not exactly on the same scale as it is now.

Here's what the Port of Doha used to look like. "All the foreground buildings have since been demolished," DesertBlooms says.

More port.

How Doha residents used to live. "Having viewed Google Earth, i can say with near 99.99% certainty that on this spot there now stands a very large apartment block," DesertBlooms says.

More.

And one more.

Another view of a central residential district.

Overlooking the Doha airport at night.

View of the Qatar National Museum. "Today the whole siteis being redeveloped. The main old palace remains but everything else has been demolished as part of a very grand NEW NATIONAL MUSEUM OF QATAR," DesertBlooms writes.

More Doha towerblocks.

Looking west across the rooftops in Doha, toward the Ramada Hotel in the distance.

Only recently demolished this was a popular hotel in its day, with its neighbor the Gulf Hotel, now the Doha Marriott.

A roof top view across Doha in this lovely time exposure on a clear warm middle eastern evening.

The Emir of Qatar's Jet, 80's chic.

Doha sunset.

The Mercury Grand Hotel. "This area today is so very very different, in that the whole place is tower blocks... apart from the two story buildings on either side of the road at centre."

An aerial view. "How it has changed since."

A plane lands.

A program for the Doha auto show.

Finally, the Sheraton hotel then...

30 Years Ago, Doha Looked Completely Different

More timetravelin'...

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