Les Halles in the morning, just inside the entrance to one of the Baltard pavilions. Photographer Harold Chapman recalls that after the market closed for the day, all the food unsold in the streets was bulldozed into piles, put into wagon trains, and put on barges to be taken down the Seine to be disposed of. This was the time for a mad rush of people trying to pick out those scraps and remnants missed by the bulldozer. Ladies are bending down there, rapidly going over picking out the best fresh tomatoes from Provence and other perfectly edible fresh vegetables harvested only a few hours ago and putting their finds into slatted wooden boxes that they picked off a pile of empty boxes. This meant that the people of Paris were able to eat well. Piled up near the women are wooden crates at the entrance to the pavilion. A porter is wheeling his empty two-wheeled wooden and metal hand truck behind him, ending his night's work. Quartier des Halles, 1er arrondissement, Right Bank, Paris, France, circa 1960s.