Port Said
Egypt
At the eastern edge of the Mediterannian Sea on the South East corner is the entrance of the Suez Canal in northern Egypt. Not an old city by local standards. The origins of Port Said is that of a working camp founded in 1859 by Said Pasha to house men working on the Suez Canal.  By the late 19th century, it was an important port where all the major maritime powers had consulates.  Much of the city was built on a section of Lake Manzala which was reclaimed by landfill.
1965 view of Old Port Authority building still in use in 2006. It is long a custom and a regulation in any port for all ships to obtain permission to enter and leave port. That is done thru Port Authority. And you New York boys thought it was a bus station.
Seawall at entrance to Suez Canal from the Med Sea
Hotels at top left, above is a government building and left was titled American Embassy.
Somewhere at entrance to harbor
Some of these were taken in Aden and Massawa. I'm not sure as to accuracy of what I label them so if any of them are recognized as the wrong place please let me know. All photos on this page were sent to me by the family of FTC Studabaker.
Large image is an arial view taken in more recent years to give an overall view of Port Said.
Many ports around the world have what we called Bum Boats. They had goods to sell to sailors. It was always buyer beware and best not to buy period. This could have been in Port Said or Aden, a busy fuel depot on the Southern end of the Arabian pennensula.
Title on this  said it was Massawa.
This was titled Aden.
Give an American boy a ball and bat or an egg shaped football and it isn't hard to find others to get a fun game up. Who needs sissy soccer anyway.
In Aden we moored to these refueling barges like this one. Workers would come aboard and do most of the work and help with the hookup. Of course most of the work they did was trying to sell trinkets and junk to unwary young sailors. Some of these guys had dozens of watches on arms and under shirts. Expensive watches ready to sell for 5 or 10 dollars depending on the barter. Nice looking watch keeping good time. Of course the old bait and switch routine was always in play here. Keep it low, not legal to buy. Wait til later to check it out. Yeah right. Later they found they had been duped and paid for an empty copy of some expensive watch.
The sea wall reminds me of coming out of the Red Sea back into the Med after three months of extreme heat. Eastern Med temps were 90 to 95 and me and many others had to don our blue work jackets. Even 95 felt a bit on the cool side. Temps we had acclimated to were from 110 to about 125 degrees. Even a cold shower was hot. Saltwater showers were hotter than the normal hot water I used. That is to be expected tho. The area is HELL and where the devil himself calls home.