Rare scenes of the city of Amman and its inhabitants in 1974

Written By عمر الدجاني on 2014/04/13

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">ArabiaWeather.com - Days pass and conditions change, this is the best that can be said when watching the footage shown in this video from the heart of the capital Amman in 1974. </p><p class="rtecenter" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p class="rtecenter" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><iframe frameborder="0" height="400" scrolling="no" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/b0jo4PrsW_E" width="600"></iframe></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> And it appears through the archival scene captured by &quot;Al-Jizami Al-Ma&#39;ani&quot; the citizens crossing the road in broad daylight, and a part of the area of the Roman amphitheater. </p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p class="rtecenter" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><iframe frameborder="0" height="400" scrolling="no" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/kGmYYsX39Xs" width="600"></iframe></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The second scene is from the University of Jordan area for the same year, and you can notice the big differences in the number of buildings and traffic jams between those times and our present time.</p><p class="rtecenter" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p>

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.


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