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.
25. Foot of the Walk
The foot of Leith Walk in March 1969 - the picture shows Woolworths, Martins the bakers, pedestrians. | TSPL Photo: TSPL
26. Inflatable Santa
Children stop to admire the inflatable Santa Claus in the window of Blyth's department store at Tollcross, Edinburgh, in August 1964 | TSPL Photo: Albert Jordan
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