O'Connell Street. View from Nelson's Pillar (demolished 8 March 1966). Dublin 1963.

Captured from Nelson's Pillar in 1963, this elevated view looks down Dublin's bustling O'Connell Street—a perspective lost when the monument was demolished three years later. The exceptionally broad thoroughfare is alive with mid-20th-century vehicles and double-decker buses. In a striking use of urban space, the wide central median has been converted into a vast, perpendicular parking lot. Pedestrians crowd the sidewalks, flanked by grand, multi-story buildings, as the cityscape stretches towards distant, hazy hills.

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