Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/04/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]PESO: When we went back to Iran, we visited in passing the town where we used to live. In 1976, Arak was a small village of about 10,000 people. Tom's aluminum plant was the only thing there in the middle of the desert. Everything had to be brought in by train. The Shah put the plant there to provide employment for the people even though there was no reason based on resources to have it there. When we visited, everything had totally changed. The small village is now a huge industrial city of over 500,000 people. The nuclear power plant is there. We found the aluminum plant and our neighborhood but could not find our house or anything else! I did find the train station that I photographed in 1976: http://tinamanley.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Iran/G0000YmlbTddL96g/I0000H19S3nRtJXw 40 years later, it has changed, too. The local people said there is never that much snow anymore. http://tinamanley.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Iran/G0000YmlbTddL96g/I00005b_A.Jr8VKI Interesting for Tom and me and but I'm not sure whether the new photos will sell! Not nearly as romantic, anyway ;-) Tina -- Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com tina-manley.artistwebsites.com http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html