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Car advertising Eastern Crafts parked outside shop
Unknown, 1961, Photograph
Car advertising Eastern Crafts parked outside shop
Car advertising Eastern Crafts parked outside shop
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Item no
21882
Title
Car advertising Eastern Crafts parked outside the shop on Canongate, 1961
Description
Two cars are parked outside an arcaded walkway in a redeveloped area of the Canongate in Edinburgh. The car on the left is painted to give the impression that someone is sitting in the back and on the door is a picture of the Taj Mahal with the words 'Eastern Crafts'. On the car's roof there is a minature house, possibly a birdhouse. A young boy walks through the middle archway and there are flags hanging from flagpoles above each of the pillars.
Artist / maker
Unknown
Date
1961
Size
12.0 x 16.8 cm
Type
Photograph
This item was digitised as part of the Whose Town? project, an educational resource for schools. Unique archival material was gathered together to create a snapshot of a person's life at a particular point in Edinburgh's history.
Eastern Crafts was a boutique selling Indian handicrafts and the proprietor, Bachan Kharbanda, used a specially decorated car to advertise the shop. As an advertising tool the car was certainly successful because people used to follow it to see where it came from.
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Whose Town? Bachan Kharbanda
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