These fascinating photos of the Capital’s streets in the 1970s have been selected rom the Evening News archive to illustrate just how different things were back then.
The cars are different from today’s - and they’re allowed to drive along Princes Street. There are parking meters on Waverley Bridge. And Market Street looks even busier than it is today.
Scroll through the pictures to get a glimpse of everyday life out and about on the roads of Edinburgh five decades ago.
21. Fountainbridge
Traffic in Bread Street, Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, in February 1977. | TSPL Photo: Joe Steele
22. Fairy tale
Edinburgh Festival Fringe performer Bill Schoppert dressed as fairy with two traffic wardens in August 1977. | TSPL Photo: Alan Ledgerwood
23. .Hanover Street / Princes Street
An Edinburgh bus turns into Hanover Street from Princes Street on the new bus lane in June 1977 - police are there to direct the car traffic | TSPL Photo: Bill Stout
24. East End
Traffic at the junction of North Bridge, Princes Street, Waterloo Place and Leith Street looking towards Calton Hill - the East End of Edinburgh in December 1978. | TSPL Photo: George Smith