The 50s … A carefree era with full employment and progress! The peak of a consumer and leisure society where the purchasing power allowed each household to buy a TV, a refrigerator, or… a car !
A time when Paris had been turned into a giant open-airparking. Cars, everywhere, all the time, covered the most emblematic places of the capital.
As we can see, not everything was better before …
Quai de Conti, 1960
Canal Saint-Martin, 1953
Gare d’Orsay, 1970
A railway that is today a museum.
Hôtel de Ville, 1960
Place de la Concorde, 1957
Place de la Concorde, 1958
Le Louvre, 1958
Notre-Dame de Paris, 1960
Plateau Beaubourg, 1970
Île de la Cité, 1962
Nowadays Rue de Lutèce, a pedestrian street.
Palais Royal, 1980
Here are today the Colonnes Buren.
Place de la Bourse, 1970
Place de la Concorde 1958
Place des Vosges, 1960
Place Vendôme, 1961
Plateau Beaubourg, 1970
Quai des Grands Augustins, 1965
Notre-Dame de Paris, 1962
Place Vendôme, 1958
