These pictures are from the restaurant at the Hotel Ivoire.  Can you tell which decade was their hey day?  Its like stepping  into a time warp.  It used to be a really nice resort hotel, but hasn't been maintained or updated and all the huge lagoon pools with swim up bars are now dry.  Its an accurate picture of Abidjan.  Really great buildings and architecture and zero maintenance.  From far away or at night Abidjan could pass for any modern US city, then you look a little closer and notice the grime, broken windows, and then emptiness.