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Edinburgh's Princes Street on a Saturday afternoon in the 1970s.
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The foreign sailor's hat has 'Casablanca' emblazoned on it.
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The man in the middle is looking straight into the camera. For this and the two previous shots, I had the 35mm SLR held low down. I had no need to look through the viewfinder because of the ultra wide angle lens.
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The slow shutter speed gives a nice blurry motion-effect in this picture.
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"If your name is here we have your tartan" proclaims the sign with a list of hundreds of names.
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Unlike the other pictures above which were all taken in Princes Street, this one was taken in Rose Street which runs parallel to it.
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More candid capers, this time in Princes Street Gardens in the late 1970s.
Raggedy Man
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A familiar sight on Edinburgh Streets. This gentleman's boots look only slightly down-at-heel, and his trousers don't share the raggedy appearance of his upper garments. Snapped outside the art college from a 23 bus.
Daisy Man
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At the corner of Princes Street and The Mound stood this young man wearing yellow and black striped clothes and carrying a similarly striped mirror on a pole. He spoke to one or two passers-by but his purpose remains unclear to me at least.
Long Haired
Lady

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Another candid shot taken on the way to Princes Street - Lothian Road at the crossing from Morrison Street to Bread Street.

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