HamBar06 Loc: Philadelphia, PA

Thanks for the positive feedback and requests for more.
A not too long [I hope] backstory on this. The magazine I left an architectural office to edit was discontinued in 1979. I was uncertain to stay in publishing [ more $$$] or go back to architecture. I checked with the U Penn Museum and got a response " how did you know we were looking for an architect?" So off I went.
I met up with the group in Tehran after spending a bit of time in Europe and by June we had by trucks and car arrived in Nagadeh. Short stop made a bit longer by my arrest by secret police. I was thought to be a spy for Iraq as I was scoping the main street with my very visible telephoto lens. Once that was sorted we went to Hasanlu area.
Penn had been digging at Hasanlu every other year for about 12 years...stopped when the Shah was ousted. The Met was digging burial mounds in the next valley [Solduz] near Hasanlu. I worked on both sites until September when my wife [then fiance] came to Tehran and we traveled to Isfahan, Shiraz and Persepolis before leaving Iran.
So: a couple of shots of 1970 Tehran. a photo of main st. Nagedeh and the rest Hasanlu. Still more if you want them.
Larry

also police stop for me! Seems funny now.








Note scarcity of real lumber. this is about as big a rafter you can get here

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

Great snapshot of Iran pre Khomeini. Where are you now?

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

So you had a very short career as a spy!

danniepolley

Nice set and story

Hal81 Loc: Bucks County, Pa.

Sounds like you had a very interesting life thanks for sharing. I always wanted to go on one of those digs.

HamBar06 Loc: Philadelphia, PA

Architecture; I retired in 2004;if you mean what did I do when I got back to the states; Philadelphia PA if you mean residence.

HamBar06 Loc: Philadelphia, PA

Yes in Iran. And yes in Egypt where I was grabbed from behind by two machine gunned police on my way to look at the Karnak temple after dark. I was stopped by a number of kids playing under street light [really new with power supplied by the new Aswan dam] who wanted to practice their English. After explanation, I was escorted by them to the locked gate to the temple and with two cigarettes to cinch the deal, they left me there to stare.
In Iran, I was hustled into the police station and told I had photographed a military installation [ this turned out to be a one story police building which I didn't actually film] They decided to confiscate my film so I rolled it into the canister and put it on the desk. They asked me where was the film and I had to pantomime the rolling into the can. I was told I could leave; and after a few minutes the leader of the expedition and our translator came out and somehow had convinced them to give the film back to me.

olemikey Loc: 6 mile creek, Spacecoast Florida

We were supposed to go to Iran on the Grumman F-14 program, but luckily the revolution started before we left the US. Glad we weren't there for the festivities...…….

Earnest Botello Loc: Hockley, Texas

Very good series Larry.

pumakat

fascinating pictures and story. thank you.

olemikey Loc: 6 mile creek, Spacecoast Florida

And yes, nice series and story.