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# Children wiping car windows at a Moscow intersection, as in 1990s films
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/malenkie-ulichnye-muzykanty-monmartra-1937-god/
- Published: 2025-02-24T07:56:37.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:41:33.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Cinema, Moscow, Observations, Society, Paris

Little Street Musicians of Montmartre, 1937.

Remember how, in the films of the 1990s, children earning a living on city streets by washing car windscreens at junctions and selling chewing gum and flowers were a common sight? Then they vanished from view for a while, as the economic situation changed. And not so long ago I saw with my own eyes children wiping car windscreens at a junction in Moscow. It seems the economy has come full circle