An archive of the Travel Tip of the Week website
As promised in the entry earlier today, here’s a picture of Notre Dame all cleaned up. This was taken by Clay Doyle in 2005 during Paris’s bid for the 2012 Olympic Games.
Note the bit of scaffolding in exactly the same location as 1954.
Île de la Cité, Notre Dame de Paris, 2005.
Some things never change and other things change quite a bit!
We’ve found a cache of vintage slides at the Cayucos Antique & Collectibles Street Fair. We plan to bring you some scans of these vivid slides in the months to come.
To start here’s a picture of Notre Dame. Scaffolding: that’s something that belongs in the things never change category.
However, what are all those cute cars doing parked right in front? … and wow, the whole cathedral needs a good scrubbing! (Stay tuned for a “scrubbed up” version.)
Île de la Cité, Notre Dame de Paris, 1954.
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