Constructed in the 1880s, Lalezar avenue – also known as “Champs-Elysées of Tehran”- was once a symbol of modernity in a pre-modern country. There were many well-known theatres, restaurants, nightclubs, bars, cinemas and shops in Lalezar Avenue. (→ See today’s Lalezar Avenue)
Unlike the tidy, clean and organized supermarkets in the west, each shop in Tehran has its own special character. Shopkeepers uniquely decorate their shop and use every inch of their usually tiny space to store as many items as possible.
The photographs and description by Kamyar Adl. All pictures taken between 2006 and 2011.
Mrs. Louis Dreyfus, wife of the U.S. Minister to Iran, distributes food and medicine to poor children of Southern Tehran in 1943.
Murals in Tehran used to have mostly political and revolutionary themes but from the early 90s a new style of mural emerged, which is merely decorative.
In February and March of 1960 a New Zealander tourist took a trip from England to India on land. He only has fours pictures of this trip, three of them taken in Iran. They are all discolored and faded but they still show something of Tehran in 1960.
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