Pictures...
The photo above, taken in 1966, shows company-owned housing on the left, where the first expats lived.
Ras Al-Hamra Club is located on the first beach visible in the foreground, to the right of the graded path which is curving to the left. Quite different to how things look today, eh?
PDO's Ras Al-Hamra Club Today
And here's a photo from around 1962 taken in Muttrah, one of the oldest parts of Muscat. Dates, fruit, silver, etc, were brought via camel and donkey to this terminus. For generations, Omanis have traded from this port to Persia (Iran), India, and Zanzibar. The photo on the left was taken just outside the back gate (still exists) of the Souq.
In its vicinity is the oldest hospital in Oman built in 1893 by a group of American Missionaries. I am in the process of trying to find some Old and New pictures of the hospital so that I can publish them in my journal. Eventually if I can gather enough information and perhaps with the help of a few others already in my journal, we can put together an LJ community on Oman. But only if anybody else is interested.
Muttrah Souq, the Port and Corniche Today
Thanks, http://www.m0rgan.com/Oman/Oman.htm