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Old Posted Jan 26, 2020, 9:36 PM
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PARIS - When I don't have my camera

...Unfortunately I don't always have my camera with me, so I have a few pictures taken with my phone. I've decided to share some.
I've taken those pictures during October November, December 2019 and January 2020.

It was mainly during my average day, so it's mostly in the south of Inner Paris.
Don't try to see any monuments, here it's average life Paris.
A mix of ancient and modern developments.

We began with a walk from Place d'Italie to Denfert Rochereaux in the south of Central Paris in October 2019.
1. This area retened its "less" urban caractere later than other part of Inner Paris and was the perfect place for the urban renwal plan during the 1960s 1970s.

Boulevard Auguste Blanqui by Minato ku, sur Flickr
2.

Rue Corvisart by Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Rue Paul Gervais by Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Rue de la Glacière by Minato ku, sur Flickr
5.

Boulevard Saint-Jacques by Minato ku, sur Flickr
6. Some "Faubourien" buildings. Until the mid the 19th century Faubourg meant suburbs. It was districts outside the walled city. Those districts often developed with small 2 to 4 storeys building with retails on ground floors along the main roads leaving the city. Those had a lot of commercial activity because outside the city tax zone.
Some taller buildings have been added later in the 20th century.

Rue de la Santé by Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Rue Dareau by Minato ku, sur Flickr
8.

Rue Dareau by Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Rue Dareau by Minato ku, sur Flickr
10.

Rue Emile Dubois by Minato ku, sur Flickr
11.

Rue Dareau by Minato ku, sur Flickr
12. An old farm, the only witness of the agricultural past of the area. It's in a curious case, it's "protected" but abandoned and there were able to built new residential buildings in part of this lot.

Ferme de Montsouris by Minato ku, sur Flickr
13. Contrast between the little alley and an office building from the 60s under renovation.

Villa Saint-Jacques by Minato ku, sur Flickr
14.

Rue Jean-Claude Arnould by Minato ku, sur Flickr

15. After some shopping on Avenue du General Leclerc, near Denfert-Rochereau

Avenue du General Leclerc, 14e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
16. This avenue is a mix of faubourien, haussmannian and later 20th century architectures.

Avenue du General Leclerc, 14e by Minato ku, sur Flickr

I decided to see the newly opened extension of Paris tram line T1. It's a very short extension of just one station from the metro station to a busy intersection in the northwestern inner suburbs of Asnieres-sur-Seine

17. Metro station of the line 13, this station opened in june 2008.

Les Courtilles, metro ligne 13 by Minato ku, sur Flickr
18.

Les Courtilles by Minato ku, sur Flickr
17.

Les Courtilles by Minato ku, sur Flickr
18.

Extension tram ligne T1 by Minato ku, sur Flickr
19. Despite just being just before the end station, it's still pretty busy

T1 by Minato ku, sur Flickr
20. The T1 is the oldest tram line in Paris, it opened in 1992 and it has a dailyridership of over 200,000 passengers.

Asnieres Quatre Routes by Minato ku, sur Flickr
21.The tram line will later being extended further west to Nanterre,

22.

Asnieres Quatre Routes by Minato ku, sur Flickr
23. I took the tram T1 backward to La Courneuve in northern inner suburbs.

Place du 8 Mai 1945, La Courneuve by Minato ku, sur Flickr
24. I wanted to take pictures of the newly enlarged platforms of the tram station but there were plenty of shady caracteres selling counterfeited cigarettes, so I preferred to abstain.

Place du 8 Mai 1945, La Courneuve by Minato ku, sur Flickr
25. This metro station of the line 7 opened in 1987

La Courneuve 8 Mai 1945, metro ligne 7 by Minato ku, sur Flickr
26. Gare de l'Est metro station in Central Paris with a refurbished train and the new color. Trains used to be blue then a green livery from 1992 and back to blue again.

Gare de l'Est, metro ligne 7 by Minato ku, sur Flickr
27. Cross platform transfer with line 5. cross platform transfer is pretty rare in Paris.

Gare de l'Est, metro ligne 7 et ligne 5 by Minato ku, sur Flickr

28. Paris metro can be both incredibly ancient, quite look outdated but with modern features. Here the installation of platform doors at Reaumur Sebastopol station on line 4. This line will become driverless, the third one in Paris after line 14 (1998) and line 1 (2011).

Reaumur Sebastopol, metro ligne 4 by Minato ku, sur Flickr

A big transportation strike during the month of December, while my metro line was working during morning rush hour, I've took my morning and so I went to my work by walking.
29. HBM (Immeuble Bon Marché). Cheap rent buildings built during the 1920s and 1930s.

Rue d'Alesia, 14e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
30.

Rue Vergniaud, 13e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
31.

Rue Martin Bernard, 13e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
32.

Rue Bobillot, 13e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
33.

Avenue d'Italie, 13e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
33.

Rue Cantagrel, 13e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
34.

Boulevard Vincent Auriol, 13e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
35.

Rue du Chevaleret, 13e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
36.

Rue du Chevaleret by Minato ku, sur Flickr
37.

Rue de Domremy by Minato ku, sur Flickr
38.

Avenue de France, 13e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
39. Limited service on the RER B.

Chatelet-les-Halles, RER B by Minato ku, sur Flickr

Some shopping in a suburban shopping mall on sunday.
40. From one of the parking garage of Belle Epine shopping mall in southern inner suburbs

Parking Belle Epine, Thiais by Minato ku, sur Flickr
41. Belle Epine is one of the many large shopping malls built in Paris suburbs during the 1970s.

Belle Epine, Thiais by Minato ku, sur Flickr
42.

Belle Epine, Thiais by Minato ku, sur Flickr
43. Back home with some pretty heavy traffic

N186, Rungis by Minato ku, sur Flickr
44. The bridge was built for the tram T7.

N186, Rungis by Minato ku, sur Flickr
45. Here a view of the freeway A6 linking Paris to the south of France

A6, Fresnes by Minato ku, sur Flickr
46. Leaving the freeway A86 in Antony for the former nation road N20.

A86, Antony by Minato ku, sur Flickr
47. In Bourg la Reine, the former highway N20 splits into two parts.

Avenue du General Leclerc, Bourg-la-Reine by Minato ku, sur Flickr
48. The town center of Bourg-la-Reine

Avenue du General Leclerc, Bourg-la-Reine by Minato ku, sur Flickr
49.

Avenue du General Leclerc, Bourg-la-Reine by Minato ku, sur Flickr
50. After Bourg-la-Reine in the suburbs of Bagneux (right) and Cachan (left).

Avenue Aristide Briand, Bagneux, Cachan by Minato ku, sur Flickr
51. The surrounding of the old national roads is often pretty ugly. Many car oriented retails, cheap housings and offices. Not very pedestrian friendly.
Here the neighborhood is being redeveloped with the construction of a new subway line.

Avenue Aristide Briand, Bagneux, Cachan by Minato ku, sur Flickr


52. A modern elevation of an older building.
Elevation was pretty common before WW2, it fades away in the second half of the 20th century and then again it's increasingly more and more popular.

Rue Boussingault, 13e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
53.

Rue de Tolbiac, 13e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
54. The big concrete slab that cover train tracks, buildings will be built above it. In a dense city like Paris, every space count.

Rue Jeanne Chauvin, 13e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
55.

Rue Albert Einstein, 13e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
56. Duo skyscrapers. The taller one (180m or 590ft is the tallest building built in Inner Paris since 1973)

Boulevard du General d'Armee Jean Simon, 13e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
57.

Boulevard du General d'Armee Jean Simon, 13e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
58. The large brutalist building in the back is the largest fire brigade station in Paris.

Boulevard Massena, 13e by Minato ku, sur Flickr

59.

Avenue du General Leclerc, 14e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
60.

Avenue du General Leclerc, 14e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
61.

Avenue du General Leclerc, 14e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
62.

Avenue du Maine, 14e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Avenue du Maine, 14e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
64.

Avenue du Maine, 14e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Avenue du Maine, 14e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
66. A former urban shopping mall being demolished and replaced with a mixed use development including offices, housings and a large shopping mall. The tower is the Hotel Pullmann Montparnasse, the third biggest hotel in Paris. It's currently closed for renovation.

Avenue du Maine by Minato ku, sur Flickr

67. Few years prior, there was a small cinema theater.
This kind of development would have been impossible few years in the past because of some rules that defined a maximum density.
Many old small building couldn't be demolished because with those former rules developpers would have had to built less square footage. Not anymore.

70 Avenue du Général Leclerc, 14e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
68.

Rue de la Tombe Issoire, 14e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
69.

Boulevard Auguste Blanqui, 14e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
70. This housing block has been elevated, they added two stories.

Rue Vergniaud, 13e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
71.

Rue le Dantec, 13e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
72.

Avenue d'Italie, 13e by Minato ku, sur Flickr

73. A little tour in the Christmas market in La Defense, it's the largest in Paris.

La Défense, marché de Noel by Minato ku, sur Flickr
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La Défense, marché de Noel by Minato ku, sur Flickr

74. A few years ago, there was a small two storey buildings there.

Avenue de l'Observatoire, 14e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Boulevard du Montparnasse, 6e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
77.

Rue Leopold Robert, 14e by Minato ku, sur Flickr

78. An other day, an other arrondissement. I walked around the former Boucicault hospital.

Rue de Lourmel, 15e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
78. This old church was part of the former hospital

Allee Irene Nemirovsky, 15e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
79.

Rue des Cevennes, 15e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
80. This kind of dense development remind me the residential area of Italian cities.
Italian cities have seen a huge population boom during the 20th century until the 1970s. So outside the old historic core, it often full of dense housing developement. France until WW2 was growing at a slower place and when France population boomed, it choose suburbanisation (both housing blocks and single familly houses) instead of density. Those kind of dense 20th century urbanity is rarer unlike Spain or Italy or Greece.

Rue de Lourmel, 15e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
81. Even in the upper middle class and wealthy 15th arrondissement, you can found some housing projects.

Rue Varet, 15e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
82. A stand alone Haussmannian building

Avenue Felix Faure, 15e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
83.
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Avenue Felix Faure, 15e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
84. I wonder why they built those office buildings so low.

Rue Louis Armand, 15e by Minato ku, sur Flickr

Welcome in 2020

85. Montrouge, where I live. It's one of the densest municipalities in France.

Rue Henri Ginoux, Montrouge by Minato ku, sur Flickr
86.

Rue Henri Ginoux, Montrouge by Minato ku, sur Flickr
87. Not so far away in the 14th arrondissement. I wonder how long those small buildings will stand.

Avenue du General Leclerc, 14e by Minato ku, sur Flickr

88. I went to the north of Inner Paris, in the 18th arrondissement. Rue Marx Dormoy.

Rue Marx Dormoy, 18e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
89. Old buildings recently demolished, soon to be replaced with more housings.

Rue Marx Dormoy, 18e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
90. Here, we see the result of the former density maximum law, they build at a lower height than the neighboring building. This one didn't age well depsite being only 10 years old. Wooden shutter don't resist to the wet weather and polution.

Rue Marx Dormoy, 18e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Rue Philippe de Girard, 18e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
92.

Rue Marx Dormoy, 18e by Minato ku, sur Flickr

93. Ivry-sur(Seine in the southeastern inner suburbs.

Boulevard Paul Vaillant Couturier, Ivry-sur-Seine by Minato ku, sur Flickr
94. Redevelopment of a former industrial area along the Seine river.

Boulevard du Colonel Fabien, Ivry-sur-Seine by Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Boulevard du Colonel Fabien, Ivry-sur-Seine by Minato ku, sur Flickr
96.

Place Gambetta, Ivry-sur-Seine by Minato ku, sur Flickr
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Thanks for posting some everyday-life-type photos of my favorite city!

I spent 3 1/2 months in Paris during the winter of 1984. A winter so cold, by the way, I had to scrape the ice off the *inside* of my hotel window at one point. I spent one entire month in a $7-a-night hotel (the exchange rate between the US dollar and French franc was ridiculously favorable at the time - nearly 10 francs to the dollar) on Rue de la Sablière in the 14ème. My most frequented Métro stop was Mouton-Duvernet. There's a special place in my heart for the not-so-monumental parts of Paris.

Here a few photos of that time in 1984. None of these photos are from the 14ème, however.


Passage du Cheval Blanc, Quartier Bastille, 1984
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Rue de Sévigné, le Marais. Paris. 1984
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Rue Berthe. Montmartre 1984
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Passage des Abbesses, Montmartre. 1984
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Definitely pre-gentrification Paris.

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Wow ! The first picture has definitively changed by a lot.
At that time this passage was full of furniture workshop.
Now instead there are offices for creatives industries.
Bastille is no longer a working class district of small industry.

Obviously same can be said for le Marais and Montmartre.
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In that photo of the Passage, if you were to turn around and then walk in the opposite direction, the Passage makes a left turn and then a right into a totally enclosed dead end. The first time I discovered the place, in 1979, as I turned the corner to the right into the enclosed dead end I saw piles of garbage and old mattresses filling the street...and a lone woman feeding about 100 stray cats. Every single cat turned its head to look at me at the same time. It was a very freaky experience.

I'm not sure how I even found that Passage in 1979, as my hotel was on Boulevard Montmartre at Rue Montmartre, not exactly nearby. The cat experience definitely left a lasting impression, so I'm not surprised I went back 5 years later.
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Speaking of Boulevard Montmartre, I just looked on google street view...when did it change from one way going west to two way traffic?
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In the end of 2012.
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Here a few photos of that time in 1984. None of these photos are from the 14ème, however.
1984!? Impressive. Good almighty Lord, you stayed in that slum? Ahhh, that's wrong. A shame.
I'm always ashamed when visitors can't enjoy the so called 'good life' over here.
You know, something at least decent to stay in, as a proper way to receive people.

I'll confess, as an annoying fussy boy, I often happen to find some of the inner city gritty, sometimes even filthy. But your 1984 pictures are of a whole different level. I would've said they were from the 1950s/60s, though some of those dilapidated cars mustn't match these decades. Most of these areas have gone a long way since then, there's no doubt.

That's how you realize our place is actually way better off today than it's ever been before.
I'm thinking, maybe you wouldn't appreciate it so much today.
Of course it depends on experiences you went through, that is on people back then.
That's just your memories.

So you take phone pics, Minato? Ouais, it's certainly still interesting to folks on here, 'cause they're so far away.
Like there's an entire ocean between them and us.
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I'm always ashamed when visitors can't enjoy the so called 'good life' over here.
I must have liked it anyway because I’ve been back five times since then, including for the “Bicentenaire” in 1989 and for the Millennium celebrations. The bicentennial was better. Although, I must say that kicking through the ankle-deep broken champagne bottles that completely filled the Place de la Concorde in the early hours of January 1, 2000 was pretty special in a bizarre, somewhat surreal way.

My first time there in 1979, they still had “pissoirs” on the streets and you could buy lemonade from sidewalk pushcart venders who served it in actual glasses so you had to drink it right away and then they’d rinse the glass for the next person who came along. Also the seats in the Métro “voitures” were wooden, even in the middle “Première Classe”

Here’s a photo from 1979. Notice there are cars parked in the middle of Place de la Concorde.
Place de la Concorde - Paris, July 1979
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In 1984, the public telephones still required actual money, so it was a real search to find any that hadn’t been smashed for the coins inside. If you really needed to make a call right away you had to do it at the PTT.

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this is a fantastic thread. its nice to see regular degular schmegular inner paris. the variety, the transit and the new stuff.

and the contrast with the older pics is cool.

i was there for the “bicentenaire” in 1989 as well. i think it was my second visit. for one thing, that was when i went to christmas day mass at notre dame.
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So you take phone pics, Minato? Ouais, it's certainly still interesting to folks on here, 'cause they're so far away.
Like there's an entire ocean between them and us.
Yeh, it's easier to carry. I often have the issue that it when I forget to take my camera that I see "interesting" things.

Back in the former National road N20 (pictures 50, 51)

97. A mix of 1920s 1930s 1970s residential buildings and more recent office building.

Avenue Aristide Briand, Bagneux Cachan by Minato ku, sur Flickr
98. Note that the two sides of the avenue are located in different municipalities and departements (the closest thing in America would be Counties).
This may also explain why it was quite neglected.
Left Bagneux in Hauts de Seine (92) and right Cachan in Val de Marne (94).

Avenue Aristide Briand, Bagneux Cachan by Minato ku, sur Flickr
99. A lot of construction is going on. Before there were furniture stores, car dealerships, auto repairs shops, old 60s 70s office buildings. See here

Avenue Aristide Briand, Bagneux by Minato ku, sur Flickr


100. Place de la Nation in the east end of Central Paris.
New floors are being built above a two storey supermarket

Place de la Nation, 12e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
101.

Rue de Lagny, 20e by Minato ku, sur Flickr
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For being "average life Paris", scenes like this look very good!
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Enjoyable tour of a remarkable city.
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Nice to see some less touristy parts of Paris!
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