Arcadia (AD 23) - Naval Cruise Book

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t . t Ws Entering the harbor of Istanbul one of our first sights was the many mosques, Moslem houses of prayer, silhouetted high above the city ' s skyline. This Moslem architecture built the finest of the mosques of Istanbul and of the world- -St. Sophia. On street corners we noticed shoe shine boys dressed in drab and colorless clothes with their fancy, glamourized shoe shine boxes. A city inside a city— the Grand Bazaar. Here under one roof were over 3, 000 shops of every description offering its numberless cus- tomers anything under the sun. Down jewel- ry shop avenue and up shoe store street we walked and wondered stopped and stared bargained and bought.

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One of our first sights of interest, the Palace of Dolmabahce, which is used as a residence for the President of Turkey when he is in Istanbul, was just to the right of Fleet Landing. On the streets of Istanbul we couldn ' t help but notice the unusually large number of American-made cars. Up until now an American car stood out like a sore thumb in our ports of call, but here the situation was reversed. i s f¥M|