The pictures date from the year 1967.
University Professor bill Podlich from Arizona made a whole series of images in 1967, while he lived and worked in Afghanistan with his family — wife and two daughters.
Stunning pictures of Afghanistan 1960-ies so different from the images of war-stricken state, that it seems they are two different countries.
Dr. bill Podlich was shot on a roll of Kodachrome”. In his photographs of Afghanistan appears to us as a calm and peaceful country, which will soon destroy the Taliban regime.
Daughter of Professor bill Podlich Jen and peg in the gardens of Paghman, which was one of the most popular vacation spots in Kabul. The gardens were completely destroyed during the war.
Afghan Schoolgirls walk home. Girls as well as boys went to school and wore a school uniform, entered the universities. Women rarely wore a veil in the major cities.
Now in Afghanistan women must wear a burqa, to appear accompanied by her husband or relatives and education for the female population is not encouraged.
Quite a happy people gathered on heavy vehicles, which were used as stands.
Men resting in the shade. Below the settlement, which for many centuries is the center of pottery.
Sisters holding hands, Kabul.
One of the daughters of a Professor at a local market in the town of Istalif, who was one of the most beautiful places in the country. The city was destroyed during the war.
During a lesson in the American international school in Kabul, which was visited by the daughter of a Professor.
Men at a picnic, drinking tea and listening to music.
Turn at the gas station.
Boy decorates cakes.
People swimming in the Kabul river.
Students dancing on the Playground.
Young Afghans returning home. In the background, stunning landscape.
Afghan teacher.
Parking in front of the American international school in Kabul, where he studied the daughter of Professor Podlich. The school also no longer exists.
One of the daughters of Professor — Peg.
The teacher training College in Kabul.
Mosque Shah-do-Shamshira (master of the two swords) in Kabul. It is about the mosque in 2015, a crowd lynched a 27-year old farkhanda malikzada after her dispute with the merchant amulets, which accused the woman in the burning of the Koran. This case shows the real situation in relation to women’s rights in Afghanistan.
A man prepares a sweet dessert jalebi on an open fire.
During a lesson in chemistry.
The bus from Kabul to Peshawar, Pakistan.
King’s hill in Paghman gardens.
All that remains of one of the Buddha statues in the Bamiyan valley, which was built in the VI century BC. In 2001, both statues were destroyed by the Taliban.
During the repair of the roads.
The Afghan army parade in Kabul.
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The Salang tunnel, which connects Northern and southern parts of the country, was built by Soviet specialists in 1964 under the difficult Salang pass.
