These pedestrians are crossing at the intersection of Auckland’s Queen and Wellesley streets, about 1960. By the 1950s city dwellers crossed busy streets at their peril, and most used pedestrian crossings for their own safety.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Gladys Mary Goodall Collection (PAColl-7756)
Reference:
PAColl-7756-1-121
Photograph by Gladys M. Goodall
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