1950s NOLA Fruit Vendor

In a batch of largely uninteresting photos, there was this gem:

The box was marked “1950s, French Quarter, LA,” and although the rest of the photos were of the river and whatnot, I think it might well be a side street in the Central Business District.

The slide was in rough shape, washed out and badly scratched. I cleaned it up as much as I could, but I would have loved to have been able to bring out the expressions. Cropped closer all the people seem ghostlike, with no facial features visible at all: