Les Halles under threat of closure. Next to the entrance to a through road connecting the Baltard pavilions and under the street sign of Rue Rambuteau fly-posters cover an area of wall on the corner of one of the pavilions. One important fly-poster announces that Les Halles are going. The huge central fresh food market of Les Halles de Paris was not demolished until 1971 but concerns were raised several years earlier as the fly-poster is dated March 1964. It is a French Communist Party tract calling on the workers, market traders and market-goers to attend a public meeting in Paris with Pierre Mialet at the Salle de l'Epicerie, 12, rue du Renard, March 1964. Two hard-working market traders, a husband and wife, are standing at their stall next to the fly-poster, typical representatives of the very people described in the poster who would be sacrificed for the big private interests of those with close links to "l'Etat Gaulliste". Photographer Harold Chapman recalls that at this time the market traders were generally depressed because of the threat looming over their livelihoods and way of life. Carreau des Halles, Quartier des Halles, 1er arrondissement, Right Bank, Paris, France, circa 1960s.