Street Furniture in Paris

A half-hour video showing various types of street furniture in Paris. This is a pretty boring video unless you are actually interested in street furniture (mailboxes, traffic lights, weird stuff like that). It's not touristy so much as it might serve as a reference if you're writing a novel or making a film about Paris. It includes:

00:10 Mailboxes
01:15 Wallace Fountains
03:46 Sanisettes
05:44 Trashcans and Recycling Bins
06:43 Vélib' Stations
08:12 Public Telephones
09:59 Streetlights
12:23 Morris Columns
13:11 Traffic Lights and Crosswalks
16:05 Bus Stops
18:42 Parking Meters
20:04 Autolib' Stations
21:37 Métro Entrances
27:00 Newsstands
28:48 Fire Hydrants
30:07 Taxi Stands
30:48 Benches
31:48 Survey Markers
32:21 Secret Entrances
32:52 Cleaning Water
33:36 Miscellaneous

Turn on closed captions for informative narration.

I spent months gathering footage for this, and I still left some things out (you have to cut things off somewhere and actually assemble the video, after all). And yes, it's boring enough that I fell asleep a few times while editing it. But it's mainly just a reference video. You never know when you might need to figure out how to find a fire hydrant in Paris!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• paris
• france
• street furniture
• mobilier urbain
• street
• furniture
• gutter
• water
• system
• catacombs
• surveying
• bench
• taxi
• hydrant
• fire
• newsstand
• kiosk
• métro
• subway
• hector guimard
• autolib
• parking
• meter
• parking meter
• bus stop
• bus
• traffic
• lights
• crosswalk
• zebra crossing
• pedestrians
• morris column
• telephone
• booth
• vélib
• bicycle
• rental
• trashcan
• bin
• recycling
• sanisette
• wallace fountain
• mailbox

[TheKurtz76]

Grazie Mxsmanic.

What's the name of the avenue @ 34:52?

Great work!

[Mxsmanic]

@TheKurtz76 Thanks for the compliment. The sign shown at 34:52 is on the north side of the boulevard des Capucines in the 9th arrondissement. The camera is looking towards the Opéra Garnier, and the Café de la Paix is visible in the background (green awning).

[kamillianne]

32:19 What is that the entry for? Sewage? Les Catacombs? :`).. Thanku for the video.

[Mxsmanic]

@kamillianne Ah … those are direct entrances into the underground stone quarries of Paris, of which the Catacombs are a part. They look like normal manholes, but they're not. There are more than 100 miles of underground quarries in Paris, mostly on the Left Bank.

[joebstewart]

Great idea. You have just shown me many things(like the Wallace Fountains)that I have walked by and not even noticed. But in 1964 I liked the pissoirs and I miss them now that they are gone.

[Mxsmanic]

@joebstewart There's one street urinal left, on the boulevard Arago, and I think there may also be one hidden in the Luxembourg Gardens. I probably should have included that. However, there's tons and tons of street furniture to cover, and as it is I gathered stuff for months before editing it all into a video (it takes a long time to collect images of all the different things in the city), and I finally had to saw it off at some point and make the video, so some things are missing.

[TheKurtz76]

@Mxsmanic

thanks!

I'm totally krazy for that kind of facades of nineteenth-century Parisian buildings.

I love it.

[elodielefr]

J'aime beaucoup :) merci

[bickletom]

Another great video! Don't stop, I love these. You are not alone in your admiration for the little things, the unnoticed things!

[jeffmings]

Merci! C'est tres utile!

[LightProjectsLTD]

This is a fabulous resource.

[merpanama]

never saw toilet like this