Trip Advisor Kuwait - avoid all non-essential travel

 I was checking my account on Trip Advisor and saw Kuwait has a travel advisory:

-It is currently recommended to avoid all non-essential travel to this area-

One way to scare people out of coming to Kuwait!

Old Kuwaiti houses, surviving Modern Times

I know time is running out for the remaining old houses in Kuwait, I go around neighborhoods and try to take pictures of them before they get demolished, sadly I missed a few as a dirt lot was all that remained of some of them.

Color blocks were widely used for decor back then

This one is a bit newer in design but unique nonetheless 

 This last one is just amazing! I wonder if it was full of color when it was built?

Kuwait used to be Colorful

I love history, I love to collect old things. I love to see how the world once was, full of color and one-of-a-kind properties. Kuwait used to have colorful outlandish houses after the discovery of oil. The designs were individual catered to the taste of the owners, and everyone had their own unique style!

This house was just amazing; the colors were bright and stood out on the block

Here it is today, you can barely see the colors but it is still amazing house

This picture is from 2014 when I first discovered the old hidden house which have since been demolished leaving this and one more as survivors.

Behbehani house in colors

 Some of these pictures were taken from the accounts of @ghazihamadsultan @badshaiji - both of these accounts have some amazing history about Kuwait.

Vintage ads from National Geographic Magazines

 I found these when scanning my early National Geographic Magazines

There used to be so much color in the world! My grandmother had a refrigerator in this yellow color that was covered in stickers I placed on it as a child

I love this one the most, when I was young, I bought a 69 Impala in California

Beautiful cars that lasted, painted in a rainbow spectrum of colors, those were the days!!

Vintage Arabic car ads in Black and White

 Part two but in black and white....

This one is pretty cool and funny

This one is one of my favorites 

Some of the scans are a little off, I didn't want to squash open the magazine and break the spine due to the age.

Vintage Arabic car ads in Color

 I love to look at vintage ads from my old magazines; I scanned some to show how vivid the colors are and how cool ads were back then.

We once lived in a colorful world but not any more. These days everything is made of dull colors with no personality.