Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Calis Beach Forum => Calis and Area - Member's Photographs => Topic started by: ColinT on April 19, 2014, 15:45:10 PM
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Going through lots of old photos today, and came across a load from our first visits to Calis in 2003 & 2004. I thought the following would be of interest to a few of you oldies!
The first one is from 2003. This is the Kerim Hotel next to the water taxi, but before it had the bar below it (now one of our favourite spots for people watching).
(http://s24.postimg.org/6f7ptq8sh/Calis6.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/6f7ptq8sh/)
This is us outside the now defunct Sultan restaurant in 2003. The year after when we visited again, it had gone. The hotel was then refurbished and renamed the Delta. The restaurant below is now Bella Mamas. The more observant amongst you may notice our waiter George, who seems to hop from restaurant to restaurant every year, and is still around.
(http://s13.postimg.org/kct3weyhf/Calis5.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/kct3weyhf/)
The next one also from 2003. This is Alison outside the old Post Office Bar which was opposite the Kerim Hotel. The Post Office was our venue of choice for watching most of the games in the Euro Championships the following year in 2004. It used to have a great atmosphere on these nights, but when it became B52's in later years, we felt a bit old! Notice the lack of block paving, and lack of generic signage outside all of the restaurants.
(http://s11.postimg.org/aftr5ooj3/Calis3.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/aftr5ooj3/)
This is me in the main road leading down to the prom in 2003. This was before the famous dolphin roundabout was constructed. Also, there were no traffic lights in these days, but the road was a lot quieter then as the dual carriageway hadn't been constructed. In that year the restaurant on the left before the junction was Mangal I think, which then moved further down the road opposite Meeting Point. The premises they vacated became Bombay Corner, which has also now gone.
(http://s23.postimg.org/53i3ezp2v/Calis1.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/53i3ezp2v/)
This was Alison outside the Bambu restaurant in 2004. We were millionaires in these days, with the old money is was TL 3,000,000 = £1. If you can make out the prices on the board, a fillet steak then was TL 14,790,000, so just under £5. One thing that hasn't changed, it came with rice, chips and salad! Before anyone asks, a large Efes on the prom in these days was TL 3,000,000 everywhere, so only £1.
(http://s27.postimg.org/qpstr0urj/Calis2.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/qpstr0urj/)
The final one is Teo and the boys at the old Bus Stop bar in 2004. This place on our last visit is now Chinese Breeze I think. The bar at the time didn't have a food offering, but they had no qualms about you hollering over the wall and ordering a pizza to be brought round from the newly opened Bella Mamas. This was where I first met Keith. I remember Alison thought I was strange going up to a stranger and saying "excuse me, are you Scunner". The Bus Stop then moved along the prom a couple of years later to be resident at a hotel which name escapes me, they then occupied the bar at Bambu for a year or 2, and on last visit they were up above one of the other restaurants near where they started in 2004.
(http://s1.postimg.org/tiuh9vorv/Calis4.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/tiuh9vorv/)
We didn't make it last year, but we are looking forward to seeing what has changed when we get to Calis again in a couple of months time.
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Thanks for these - lovely to see the "old"Calis.
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OMG Teo looks so young and the best bar in Calis at the time - The Post Office
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Prefect overview of the time Colin - thanks for sharing. Bella Mammas is a fine restaurant but Sultans (with the Sundowners Bar was it) was superb. A great loss when it went. The Post Office was magical, even if it wasn't the original one - there really was something about that place. I was lucky enough to be there when the Bus Stop first opened, and it became the home of the CBF Wednesday night meets - they were brilliant, really well attended and you never quite knew who would be attending.
Great times indeed.
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The pricing in Bambu seem strange. If I read it correctly a Shish Kebab was 8.790. Does that mean it was 8 lira 79 kuros - surely not. Also, when were the millions done away with - I would have thought they were still on the go in 2003
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It would have been 8,790,000 old lira but they didn't bother with all the noughts even before they were scrapped.
Here is another photo of the Post Office - those with keen eyesight will see Mrs Scunner and two young ladies, when they were much younger ladies :)
(http://www.calis-beach.co.uk/postoffice.jpg)
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Thanks scunner - that makes sense now.
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I think they dumped the zeros in 2005
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(http://s28.postimg.org/sak96o8c9/img_802115314_0021.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/sak96o8c9/)
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I also notice the old metal bridge in the bottom of that photo. How many people like me tried to walk across it in the heat of the day with bare feet. A touch of stupidity on my part. I only did it once though. Ouch!
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Great photos - and memories! 2002 our first time in Calis, how easily you forget how things were back then.
But by the sounds of it, many more changes to see when we arrive in May! :)
But will they be for the better? We'll wait and see!
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(http://www.calis-beach.co.uk/postoffice.jpg)
If that's people sitting at the bar, I don't remember it being that far forward.
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We were regulars in Bus Stop but would not have recognised anyone as I didn't join this parish until 2005.
PS I could have sworn I post this already :(
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If that's people sitting at the bar, I don't remember it being that far forward.
You may need a bit of perspective - that is taken from the side entrance (from the bridge) not from the road directly outside.
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Really love seeing old photos of the area - thank you so much for sharing, Colin.
If anyone else has any, please add them :)
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Another memory from these years is regular power cuts. Sitting having a beer in Josephs bar, the lights go out, who cares, the candles arrive and they continue serving.
I also remember another night when we were in Meeting Point during the World Cup 2006 watching a "crucial" game and we lost 20mins of the game. Simple times, nobody cared!
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That was the Calis we fell in love with. Thanks for sharing :)
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If that's people sitting at the bar, I don't remember it being that far forward.
You may need a bit of perspective - that is taken from the side entrance (from the bridge) not from the road directly outside.
Ah yes, I can see that now Scunner. I couldn't recognise it either. :)
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The old Calis main street was much better than it is now.. In our opinion it was ruined when the bars on The right all went under the same roof... The old Calis was what we fell in love with in 2004/5... Thanks for The photo's.
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The old Calis main street was much better than it is now..
Yep. The day it all changed...
(http://www.calis-beach.co.uk/IMGP0306marias.jpg)
(http://www.calis-beach.co.uk/calismainstreet.jpg)
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Looking up towards the Main Street
(http://s30.postimg.org/x8q7u9erh/calis1.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/x8q7u9erh/)
(http://s30.postimg.org/69mcz3sal/calis2.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/69mcz3sal/)
Cannot remember which restaurant this is/was
(http://s30.postimg.org/8yqcgmcjh/calis4.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/8yqcgmcjh/)
From the roof of Letoon
(http://s30.postimg.org/cxnjzg16l/calis5.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/cxnjzg16l/)
(http://s30.postimg.org/qdakow9od/calis3.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/qdakow9od/)
Also have no idea where this restaurant was/is
(http://s11.postimg.org/et4k8v0mn/boathouse.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/et4k8v0mn/)
And the present Mrs H sucking a plum in The Post Office with the waiter formerly known as.....
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Thanks, H!
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2003/2004 was around the time we first went to Calis - thank you for these...you don't realise how much it changes. I remember Olga (of Cenk and Olga fame) saying to us when we bought our property halfway between Calis and Fethiye that there would be a walking promenade - we seriously doubted those words - how wrong we were.....
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Prompted me to look out my old 35mm slides sometime.
Does anyone remember pre Post Office Bar the YURT that was on the street well before most of the buildings we built?
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;Great photo's, loved it then ,also 2004 when I first met anew estate agent with morals,wonder whatever happened to him. ;D
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All good stuff.
Nice to see what it looked like before we showed up in 2006.
Ian
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Just looking at your photos Mr H,and I a lady in one of your pictures,there is six if you around the table and she is the lady with glasses with a white blouse and blue trousers. I always used to see her in a Calis many years ago but not seen her for a long time now,what was her name..???Maurice looks a young pup
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Prompted me to look out my old 35mm slides sometime.
Does anyone remember pre Post Office Bar the YURT that was on the street well before most of the buildings we built?
Yes Neil we do. I've got a box of photos to go through and I'm assured there are some calis photos from late 80's so will post soon! Hope there are some with the view of the Main Street with nothing on it, pre post office or anything else!
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Neil B - get them 35mm slides found! And Cavfan find those early Calis shots! :D
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The changes we have seen since we first went are nothing to Maria's which are perhaps 10 years earlier.