Buses, cars and pedestrians making their way along Princes Street in Edinburgh, Scotland during the Edinburgh Festival in 1960. (2/197)
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There are always a lot of people with luggage or big bags in old photos. In the days before plastic bags were mass produced, people used to go to the shops with a quality leather bag and run errands.
Perhaps they were returning bottles in those big bags! Such an act is beyond our comprehension today, no human could ever commit such a thing
On city center streets, cars were more effective when most households didn’t own them. Nice picture.
I’ve never seen the Waverley mall not there before, I don’t know when it was built, but I’ve never seen it not there before! That’s a great picture!
In the early eighties, it was called Waverley Market, which was the name of the old building it replaced – a fruit and vegetable market.
I was just on that exact street in a tour bus and I got photos like this one
Imagine it being that quiet on even a weekend, never mind the festival