Yesterday at 2:16 in the afternoon, the Rue Meynadier, the longest pedestrian street in Cannes, was starting to get busy. When this street was first built in 1752, it was the only way to get from the old town of Cannes to Antibes. The street was widened in 1883; at the same time, the first shops were opened by cobblers, butchers, and grocers. In the 1880s, the street was also home to a small theater, and at number 16 was the seat of the Cannes branch of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul that had been founded some 50 years earlier in Paris. Before 1883, the street was known as Grand-Rue; following the works of 1883, it was renamed Rue Grande, the name many of Cannes’ older inhabitants still use. It became the Rue Meynadier in 1945.