Clean Green Street
I took this shot on a street very close to the Drum Tower in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China - I have shots of the tower both before and after this one on my strips of negatives.
Like a shot I posted earlier this week of a street in Wuhan, the reason for the shot was that this quiet well-paved tree-lined street is clean - I mean very clean! - clearly well-swept earlier in the day with what appears to have been water in both gutters. Again, the street also appears not to have had any temporary work (no asphalt patches) and there's no sign of any being required.
The street's also almost entirely empty of traffic - just one parked truck and a handful of cyclists and a thin scattering of pedestrians. On the very far left of the image is what appears might be a cycle and side-car - not something I've seen before or since! Again, there is also the complete lack of litter - and bins! The trees on this street are definitely much more mature and developed than the ones in the earlier image.
I think we'd have had to look hard to find a street in similar condition in our major cities at that time... Whilst clearly old-school China, I wonder what it's like today?
Scanned from a negative.
Clean Green Street
I took this shot on a street very close to the Drum Tower in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China - I have shots of the tower both before and after this one on my strips of negatives.
Like a shot I posted earlier this week of a street in Wuhan, the reason for the shot was that this quiet well-paved tree-lined street is clean - I mean very clean! - clearly well-swept earlier in the day with what appears to have been water in both gutters. Again, the street also appears not to have had any temporary work (no asphalt patches) and there's no sign of any being required.
The street's also almost entirely empty of traffic - just one parked truck and a handful of cyclists and a thin scattering of pedestrians. On the very far left of the image is what appears might be a cycle and side-car - not something I've seen before or since! Again, there is also the complete lack of litter - and bins! The trees on this street are definitely much more mature and developed than the ones in the earlier image.
I think we'd have had to look hard to find a street in similar condition in our major cities at that time... Whilst clearly old-school China, I wonder what it's like today?
Scanned from a negative.