Many of the shops which used to line the city’s streets have disappeared and some new ones have arrived.
But these fascinating pictures selected from the Evening News archive will transport you back in time and allow you to feel something of the atmosphere of Edinburgh in the early 1970s.
Scroll through these old black and white pictures to conjure up an idea of the city five decades ago.
13. Denim shop, Cockburn Street
Customers - or staff - outside a clothes shop in Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, with a lot of denim for sale, in June 1973. | TSPL Photo: Denis Straughan
14. .Earl Grey Street, Tollcross
A view along Earl Grey Street, Tollcross, in May 1973, with a 'Hunter' demolition sign on the corner above Rankins fruit and veg shop on the left-hand side of street | TSPL Photo: Joe Steele
15. Watching the Royal Wedding
Passers-by watch the Royal wedding of Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips in a television shop window in Edinburgh's Royal Mile in November 1973. | TSPL Photo: Alex Brown
16. .MacKenzie Sports Shop
Staff lined up outside MacKenzie's sports shop for a last picture before it closed in 1975. In the centre, left to right: Stewart, Tom and George Mackenzie. | TSPL Photo: Alan Ledgerwood