Here is a wonderful collection of photographs taken by Aramco photographer Bert Seal that will take you down memory lane while envisioning those happy golden days of the 1950s.
Photo by Bert Seal, Public Relations photographer for Aramco from 1955 to 1960.
Photo by Bert Seal, Public Relations photographer for Aramco from 1955 to 1960.
Photo by Bert Seal, Public Relations photographer for Aramco from 1955 to 1960.
Photo by Bert Seal, Public Relations photographer for Aramco from 1955 to 1960.
Photo by Bert Seal, Public Relations photographer for Aramco from 1955 to 1960.
Photo by Bert Seal, Public Relations photographer for Aramco from 1955 to 1960.
Photo by Bert Seal, Public Relations photographer for Aramco from 1955 to 1960.
Photo by Bert Seal, Public Relations photographer for Aramco from 1955 to 1960.
Read more stories about growing up in Aramco in the 50s.
Campouts and Flubber Pancakes: Vignette from '3,001 Arabian Days'
By Rick Snedeker
"Growing up in Dhahran, I was trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. Except maybe for obedient, thrifty and, almost certainly, brave. As a Boy Scout, after all, I took our Scout Law seriously. Sort of."
By Tim Barger
"As a child growing up in Dhahran in the early 1950s, I had an unrequited obsession with sugar – the more the better. At the time, the Dhahran commissary didn’t have much beyond Droste chocolate and O’Henry bars, Khobar had even less to offer. Hard candies and hopelessly expired candies from England such as Rowntree’s Fruit Pastilles..."
By Tim Barger
"Growing up in Dhahran in the 1950s without television and barely radio the movies were everything, our only link with the outside world. Three movies a week with a rerun on Thursday, as kids we’d go to pretty much anything that was playing. Even if the feature was some unfathomable drama about thwarted love, boundless ambition or existential trauma in 1950s America, we’d go just for the pre-show filler. "
Remembering the Past: Barb Harrington Pew’s Story, in 1950s Expatriate Arabia
By Anushka Bose
"One of the most beautiful privileges of growing up in the expat world in Saudi Arabia is that virtually everyone is different. A different race, ethnicity, religion. The main thread that ties us together is the expat culture..."