A night out in Les Halles. Two elegantly dressed ladies are sitting at a table with a clean white tablecloth and are looking at the shellfish menu in the restaurant Au Pied de Cochon. Cafes in Paris were known for a particular food or drink event, and took very seriously their menus and their specialities with menu boards outside to advertise for example oysters, mussels or snails, and with thematic restaurants. Au Pied de Cochon was divided into two parts, one for tourists which was much more expensive and one for the workers of Les Halles who paid a greatly reduced price for their onion soup and would stand at the counter and break through the crust of grilled onion on top to get at the soup. The part reserved for tourists and people having a night out was separated from the bar by a screen so that they would not have their meal disturbed by seeing lots of bloodstained butchers who came in for a quick drink or a meal at the bar counter. This area in Les Halles was famous as a place where people would go to celebrate after getting married by walking around the bustling streets and going to a cafe for a celebratory drink, or where students would go to celebrate their graduation. Part of the celebration was enjoying the chaotic scene of Les Halles at night, and cafes would be open twenty-four hours a day for the night as well as day trade. People would come out of the myriad entertainments that Paris had to offer, the theatre, shows, cinema, ballet when they would go off to Les Halles to eat and drink at the end of a night out. Rue Coquilliere, 1er arrondissement, Right Bank, Paris, France, circa 1960s.