Les Halles at night. At a fruit wholesaler's called Pigma Fruits men are working both inside and outside the tidy storehouse containing many neatly stacked boxes and where the produce is on display on the pavement for buyers to come and see. One man is unloading goods from a delivery truck parked in the road. The central food market of Les Halles was a sprawling area, known as the Quartier des Halles, with covered streets and through roads linking the pavilions, wholesale stores in side streets away from the pavilions, and a chaos of stalls, wholesalers and retailers filling roads and narrow streets at night known as the carreau forain that had to be cleared by the time the ordinary working day was about to begin. 12-14 rue Saint-Denis, Quartier des Halles, 1er arrondissement, Right Bank, Paris, France, circa 1960s.