1940s Buenos Aires / Rio de Janeiro in the 2020s

Here are some photos of Buenos Aires, another giant South American city that in a certain way could have been similar to São Paulo. But that's only on the surface because there is nothing so much different from each other as Buenos Aires and São Paulo.

Buenos Aires is a city with few inclinations that is, its terrain is relatively plain as where as São Paulo is full of hills and mountains.

Calle Corrientes in Buenos Aires in the late 1950s. 

Even though this blog is about São Paulo in the 40s and 50s I could not forget Rio de Janeiro, the most beautiful Brazilian city... and here's a spot to insert nice pictures about the former Distrito Federal...

this shot is so amazing it looks like a Walt Disney 1940s animated film...

Lapa's Arches photographed by John Napper. 

Theatro Municipal's cupola photographed by John Napper.