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They were fascinated more, I think from the movelty of the camera

than from the snake charmer and his acting cobra. .
Karaehi, Snob

6-10-8-44. Street scene at APO 883 taken purposefully for the re-
cord of a camel lying in the street. My first Indian city upon arrival.
Tt is contrasted from the main street or (Market Street of San Fransisco)
by being much narrower in width and lacking the moisy and surging masses
of people that inhabit the main thoroughfare. There is # much difference
between these two parts of town as there is between the rural country
side and a re business district in America. These cities are
calorful, perhaps not in the same sense as we would adjudge our own
cities, particularly at night with our neon signs etc but colorful in
gegard to variety and contrast. The main street is spacious and is
giaaed by alleyways and this particular type of avenue illustrated in
the picture. The architecture is miscellaneous with well stocked stores
standing amid a jumble of small shops, pavement vendors and hawkers.
Nothing remains as modernistic and fine as any o our own stores, If
one were to take all the sevond hand stores of Salt Lake City and put
them in one city block you would have an excellent picture of these cit-
ies-plus filth and dirt! Thronging the streets are a few Indians in
Western attire and countless others wearing dita and loose flowing
pyjamas with every style of headgear imaginable. The dominant costume
is the dhoti and sari both of which lbok like their weariers got up out
of bed without removing their nightgowns. It seemsso rediculous to see
grown men with such clothes. I suppose the custom of inserting the
shirt in the pants as we do is a morerecent custom acquired, Half naked
coolies and fakirs, beggars, street urchins and plain loafers all form
part of the colorful spectacle. Cars thread their way with blasting

horns, their brakes shrik-ing now and then in their attempt to avert

hitting a sacred cow or one of the hundreds of people flowing back and