Many of the shops in the pictures here here will no longer exist - in some cases, the goods they sold will no longer be things people buy.
But it’s fascinating to look back and see what shops there were 60 years ago.
Scroll through these old photographs selected from the Evening News archive and get a flavour of what it was like going to the shops in the Edinburgh of the 1960s.
21. Teenage fashion
Modelling casual gear from Togs fashions, a teenagers' and children's clothes shop in Hanover Street October 1967. Jane is in pink wool dress, Sarah in a black and white tabard dress, Ismay in trouser suit and Anna in beige pinafore culotte dress and herringbone cape | TSPL Photo: Denis Straughan
22. Newington Road
People shopping in Newington Road in Edinburgh in October 1968 - some of the shops show are: Baird The Bootmaker and Crawford's the bakers. | TSPL Photo: Alan Ledgerwood
23. Goldbergs roundabout
The funfair roundabout inside Goldbergs department store in Edinburgh, November 1968. | TSPL Photo: Hamish Campbell
24. Goldbergs department store
Exterior of the Goldbergs department store in High Riggs, Tollcross, Edinburgh - March 1968 | TSPL Photo: Ian Porteous