Afghanistan in the 1950s and 60s

Author: jone Date: 14 November, Category: Educative, Visits 3656

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Picture taken in 1962 at the Faculty of Medicine in Kabul of two Afghan medicine students listening to their professor (at right) as they examine a plaster cast showing a part of a human body. (Photo by AFP/Getty Images via The Atlantic)

The modern new (completed 1966) government printing plant in Kabul, on June 9, 1966, which houses Kabul Times. Most of its machinery was furnished by West Germany. (Photo by AP Photo via The Atlantic)

Men stroll past roadside vendors as a painted truck makes its way through the busy street in Kabul, Afghanistan, November, 1961. (Photo by Henry S. Bradsher/AP Photo via The Atlantic)

Architecture in Kabul, Afghanistan, seen on May 28, 1968. (Photo by James Martenhoff/AP Photo via The Atlantic)

Street scene in Kabul, Afghanistan in November, 1961. (Photo by Henry Burroughs/AP Photo via The Atlantic)

Afghan boys, men, and women, some in bare feet, shop at a marketplace in Kabul, Afghanistan, in May of 1964. (Photo by AP Photo via The Atlantic)

Motorcade for President Eisenhower's visit to Kabul, Afghanistan, on December 9, 1959. Eisenhower met briefly with the 45-year-old Afghan king, Mohammad Zahir Shah, to discuss Soviet influence in the region and increased U.S. aid to Afghanistan. (Photo by Thomas J. O'Halloran/LOC via The Atlantic)

Residents of Afghanistan line the route of U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower's tour in Kabul, Afghanistan, on December 9, 1959. (Photo by AP Photo via The Atlantic)

Dancers perform in street of Kabul, Afghanistan, December 9, 1959 following President Eisenhower's arrival from Karachi. After a five hour stay in Kabul, Ike flew on to New Delhi. (Photo by AP Photo via The Atlantic)

Afghan Air Force Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 fighters and Ilyushin Il-28 bombers in Kabul, Afghanistan, during the visit of the U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower, in December of 1959. (Photo by Thomas J. O'Halloran/LOC via The Atlantic)

A modern traffic light stands incongruously amid burqa-clad women sitting on a Kabul street corner with their backs to their men on May 25, 1964. (Photo by Henry Burroughs/AP Photo via The Atlantic)

Children in a Kabul street, November, 1961. (Photo by Henry Burroughs/AP Photo via The Atlantic)

A shopfront display of fruits and nuts in Kabul, in November of 1961. (Photo by Henry S. Bradsher/AP Photo via The Atlantic)

Afghan women, men, and child in traditional dress ride in a cart through an arid, rocky landscape, November, 1959. (Photo by Robert P. Martin/LOC via The Atlantic)

An Afghan worker checks a Russian-made truck in the Kabul Janagalak factory in an unspecified date. The factory situated in the center of the city as the only firm for making vehicle's chassis was plundered, like other public properties in the Afghan capital, during the Afghan mujahedin rule from 1992 to 1996. (Photo by AFP/Getty Images via The Atlantic)

The entrance to the Karkar coal mine around 12 kilometers northeast of Pulikhumri, the provincial town of the Northern province of Baghlan. The Karkar coal deposit at one time met the needs of Kabul city. (Photo by AFP/Getty Images via The Atlantic)

A caravan of mules and camels cross the high, winding trails of the Lataband Pass in Afghanistan on the way to Kabul, on October 8, 1949. (Photo by Max Desfor/AP Photo via The Atlantic)

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev (black hat), and Marshal Nikolai Bulganin review an Afghan honor guard wearing old German uniforms, on their arrival in Kabul, Afghanistan, on December 15, 1955. At left is the Afghan Prime Minister Sardar Mohammed Daud Khan, and behind, in cap, the foreign minister, Prince Naim. (Photo by AP Photo via The Atlantic)

Street scene in Kabul, in November of 1966. (Photo by AP Photo via The Atlantic)

This photo shows the now-destroyed Kabul-Herat highway, that linked the Afghan capital to the Iranian border city of Mashad. Built in the early second half of the 20th century, the highway has been virtually destroyed through decades of warfare. (Photo by AFP/Getty Images via The Atlantic)

Activity in a city park in Kabul, on May 28, 1968. (Photo by James Martenhoff/AP Photo via The Atlantic)

Modern new Finance Ministry building in Kabul, on June 9, 1966, with a public, western-style cafeteria and sidewalk restaurant, facing a water fountain which is illuminated in color at night. (Photo by AP Photo via The Atlantic)

Scene inside the modern new government printing plant in Kabul on June 9, 1966, which houses Kabul Times. (Photo by AP Photo via The Atlantic)

Tajbeg (Queen's) Palace, the Palace of Amanullah Khan in Kabul, photographed on October 8, 1949. Amanullah Khan, King of Afghanistan in the early 20th century, attempted to modernize his country and make many reforms to eliminate many age-old customs and habits. His ambitious plans and ideas were based on what he had seen during a visit to Europe. Click here to see a present-day view of the palace, now an abandoned wreck. (Photo by Max Desfor/AP Photo via The Atlantic)

Kabul, Afghanistan, November 1961. (Photo by Henry Burroughs/AP Photo via The Atlantic)

A quiet scene in a street through the bazaar of Kabul, on December 31, 1969. (Photo by AP Photo via The Atlantic)

A panoramic view showing the old and new buildings in Kabul, in August of 1969. The Kabul River flows through the city, center right. In the background on the hilltop is the mausoleum of late King Mohammad Nadir Shah. (Photo by AP Photo via The Atlantic)

Afghan man leading laden camels and donkeys through an arid, rocky landscape, in November, 1959. (Photo by Robert P. Martin/LOC via The Atlantic)

The King of Afghanistan, Mohammad Zahir Shah rides in his limousine on Kabul's central road Idga Wat in this 1968 photo. Zahir Shah, the last of King of Afghanistan lived in exile in Rome since a 1973 coup, returning to Afghanistan in 2002, after the removal of the Taliban. He passed away in Kabul in 2007, at the age of 92. (Photo by AP Photo/Handout, The Family of the King of Afghansitan via The Atlantic)

Afghan boys play with kites as men walk past, in November of 1959. (Photo by Robert P. Martin/LOC via The Atlantic)

Women, wearing traditional burqas and Persian slippers, walk alongside men, cars and horse carts, in a street in Kabul, in 1951. At the time, this street was one of only three paved streets in the capital city. (Photo by AP Photo via The Atlantic)

Vendors sell various fuits and nuts at an outdoor market in Kabul, in November of 1961. (Photo by Henry S. Bradsher/AP Photo via The Atlantic)

A view of one of the new mosques erected in the suburb of Kabul, in November of 1961. (Photo by Henry S. Bradsher/AP Photo via The Atlantic)

Afghan boys, men, and a woman walk through a street in Kabul, Afghanistan, on March 26, 1954. (Photo by AP Photo via The Atlantic)

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