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Arabian Son: First Steps

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Friday, November 23, 2012. The Flying Camel with an Aramco stewardess- 1952. It’s amazing how far the attitude towards smoking has changed in 50 years. In the 1950s I remember going with my mother to the doctor and after my exam the two of them smoking like fiends while they discussed my current affliction. On those spectacular. Drinking and smoking like it was a wild Christmas party in Dhahran. Back to high school in the States when we witnessed an all-time first in air travel. Smith and I laughed so ha...

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Arabian Son: Aramco Holiday Bundle

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Tuesday, December 4, 2012. These three classic books chronicle the first ten years of the company that is now Saudi Aramco. From the original negotiations for the concession in 1934, through the difficulties of desert exploration and drilling in a harsh, hostile environment to the elation of discovery - soon to be dampened by World War II and the travails experienced by the hundred Americans that remained in the field. Now available for a limited time only through December 18th. Posted by Tim Barger.

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Arabian Son: September 2012

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Sunday, September 23, 2012. Dhahran's Palace of Dreams. Growing up in Dhahran in the 1950s without television and barely radio the movies were everything. Our only link with the outside world. Three movies a week with a rerun on Thursday, as kids we’d go to pretty much anything that was playing. Even if the feature was some unfathomable drama about thwarted love, boundless ambition or existential trauma in 1950s. We’d go just for the pre-show filler. Posted by Tim Barger. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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Arabian Son: Looking for Lana

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Thursday, August 23, 2012. Now anyone in their right mind would do everything possible to avoid being in. I knew more about. Than I did the. And thought that it might be interesting to sample the real American lifestyle – mistake number one. So 1962 I showed up on the banks of the. We were both travelling solo so we were as thick as thieves as we boarded the MEA flight to. And then on to Dhahran. We landed in. And took off for the last leg when an engine burst into flames. We returned to. Stymied we wand...

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Arabian Son: December 2012

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Tuesday, December 4, 2012. These three classic books chronicle the first ten years of the company that is now Saudi Aramco. From the original negotiations for the concession in 1934, through the difficulties of desert exploration and drilling in a harsh, hostile environment to the elation of discovery - soon to be dampened by World War II and the travails experienced by the hundred Americans that remained in the field. Now available for a limited time only through December 18th. Posted by Tim Barger.

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Arabian Son: May 2012

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Monday, May 14, 2012. Standing, Tim at age 6, David Snyder, Mary Barger - 2. Rolling down the slope was great fun and you’d always come home with grass stained jeans, itching like mad from the bugs in the grass. Posted by Tim Barger. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Out in the Blue. Mess: Stories about Women with Messy Lives. In a High Place. Ibn Saud: King by Conquest. Revolt in the Desert. Al Ayaam Al Jamilah. Journal of the 1001 Nights. Out in the Blue.

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Arabian Son: Arabian Son: 21 Stories

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Tuesday, February 11, 2014. Arabian Son: 21 Stories. Tim Barger’s collection of stories about his years. Growing up in Aramco are a study in impaired judgment and poor impulse control - yet they are entirely recognizable to any of us who lived in a place where you woke up to the. And went to lunch at the whistle. Neither they nor their parents had the vaguest idea that Aramco would soon become the anchor of the global petroleum economy. The boys riding their bikes off of rooftops into dense hedges on...

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Arabian Son: April 2012

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Friday, April 27, 2012. Island in the Gulf. Island in the Gulf. This trip resulted in my first published article, "Of Turtles and Terns". Which was printed in the May/June 1968 edition of Aramco World. I was delighted to be published but didn't know that they paid too. I was a sophomore in college when I received a check for $300 and nearly fell over. I used some of the money to buy a portable typewriter as there seemed to be a future in this writing business. Posted by Tim Barger. Posted by Tim Barger.

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Arabian Son: Hiatus

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Thursday, January 2, 2014. I've been pretty much a human billiard ball bouncing around doing a variety of projects and have neglected Arabian Son. I've been on hiatus as they say in Hollywood. But for 14 I'm going to spend more time with those memories that started at Half Moon Bay and ended in humid nights dancing like there was no tomorrow - Mafi Bukra. Here's the links to some of my newer stories at AramcoExpats.com - they are way more competent than I am at presenting these stories properly.