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Marina Hotel
Formerly Hôtel De L'Europe


1960's photo of the Crescent shopping area looking east.The Marina Hotel is at the far end.

Those who collect Aden postcards may notice  that probably around 1915, and certainly by the time the hotel had changed name to Marina Hotel, the Turkish Shop, which was run by I. Benghiat, had become M. Yahooda's  Universal Bazaar. At the other end of the building was The Star Pharmacy.

 

 

Today, 2007, the former site of the Marina Hotel is a vacant block of land with the Tawahi Police Station to it's right (looking from the front). Apparently the hotel was bombed and burned in 1967 and never rebuilt.

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This  page last updated Saturday, 02 August 2008

 

 

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