Shops become familiar territory for anyone who visits them more than just occasionally. So although most of the shops featured in these fascinating pictures have now disappeared, they were once a regular part of many people’s everyday life.
Scroll through this selection from the Evening News archive and feel something of the atmosphere of Edinburgh in the early 1970s.
17. .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
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