Rangoon 1982

I have been fortunate to visit Rangoon (now Yangon) five times. This gallery is from my first visit in 1982, when the city was virtually a living (though unmaintained) museum of colonial times.

Buses in central Rangoon coming from Mahabandoola Street around the Sule Pagoda Airport terminal, built by the Calcutta Metropolitan Airports Authority in 1947 Small food stalls beside Kaba Aye Pagoda Road Rangoon City Hall, built by the British, with the Sule Pagoda to the left Colonial era buildings in Sule pagoda Road, central Rangoon Looking across Maha Bandoola Park in central Rangoon to the High Court Building Rangoon street scene, 1982 Rangoon street scene, 1982 Most of the post-1948 buildings in Rangoon were small open-front shops A British colonial era building Rangoon street scene, 1982 Sule Pagoda Road, immediately north of the Sule Pagoda Small open fronted shops in Gyo Byu Street, north of the Aung San Stadium Shops in Maha Bandoola Street, central Rangoon A typical petrol station in Rangoon, 1982 Rangoon Central Railway Station, built by the British, with Burmese temple tops Young monks at the Chauk Htat Gyi Pagoda, off Shwegondine Street Selling fish in the Bogyoke Aung San markets, central Rangoon Selling poultry in the Bogyoke Aung San markets, central Rangoon Karaweik Hall, on Royal Lake A run down colonial era building, stil used for housing Newer housing in eastern Rangoon The reclining Buddha image at the Chauk Htat Gyi pagoda is the world's largest Specifications of the reclining Buddha image at the Chauk Htat Gyi pagoda Bus depot, Rangoon, 1982 Looking towards the Shwedagon Pagoda from the west, 1982 Car mechanic workshop Kaba Aye Pagoda Road beside Inya Lake Traditional Burmese candle dance, in Karaweik Hall Transporting foil chinthes Suburban housing to the east of Inya Lake, northern Rangoon Suburban housing to the east of Inya Lake, northern Rangoon Public billboard on a typically 'busy' main intersection Suburban housing, Mingaladon, northern Rangoon The check-in area at Rangoon Airport. Interesting passengers today! A Chinese jet at Rangoon Airport, ready for the weekly flight to Kunming Oblique aerial view of Insein, north of Mingaladon, northern Rangoon