Some Pages of History

 The Socio- political History of Bushire, 1948-1988

 

Author: AliReza Mozaffarizadeh

Date of publication: first edition, 2008

Print run: 1500 copies

Number of pages: 434

Price: 50000 Rials

 

From inside

 

“… In those days, there was no electricity; people would use oil lanterns for light and would burn firewood for cooking and warming their houses. Some used to gather zal shrubs which would grow by roadsides in the deserts. They would dry the shrubs and would burn under the pans and made a kind of very thin bread. All over the district, there was no electricity, except the Etemadieh firm wherein hundreds of workers would work night and days. The firm worked in three shifts and at the turn of each shift the special siren called fidus could be heard for 30 seconds…”