Theatro São Paulo

at Praça Almeida Junior, Theatro São Paulo was demolished in 1969.

Theatro São Paulo at Rua da Glória. 

Cine São Bento

Cine São Bento in the 1920s.

Rua São Bento around Christmas 1957. 

a bluish Saint Benedict overlooks the entrance to his Basilica... 

CINE RECREIO on Praça João Mendes - 1940s

Cine Theatro Recreio opened as Pathé Palace on Rua Rodrigo Silva, 8, Praça João Mendes on 30 May 1913, having 1040 seats.

After 15 years of use, the site is refurbished and re-opened on 6 December 1928, as Eden Theatro, not showing movie-pictures anymore. 

On 24 October 1939, Eden Theatro starts showing box fights at an arena installed at the centre of the auditorium. 

On 20 May 1930, Eden Theatro starts showing moving pictures again. 

On 14 December 1933, it is refurbished again and re-opens as Theatro Recreio. 

On 25 October 1934, a fire breaks out at the projecting room of Theatro Recreio so the place is shut down for 3 years. 

On 24 February 1937, Cine Theatro Recreio is re-opened as a full moving-picture place.     

Em 1916 teve acidente parecido com o ocorrido no Cine Oderban. Saiu fumaça da sala de projeção, alguém gritou fogo” e todos saíram correndo. Na confusão algumas pessoas se feriram e houve um morto, o pedreiro José Palombo de 47 anos que aproveitava a folga de domingo na matinê assistindo o filme “Gabiria” de 1914

Cine Recreio at Rua Rodrigo Silva, n.8, on Praça João Mendes.

Cine Pathe-Palace on its 3rd anniversary on 30 May 1916; photo published at 'A Cigarra' on 31st May 1916 saying: Festival comemorativo do 3o. Aniversário do Pathé-Palácio. name to Cine Eden to finally settle for Cine Recreio...

same photo with different lighting... 30 May 1916. 

Cine Pathé Palace on its opening, 30 May 1913; 

inside Cine Pathé Palace on 19 April 1916.

audience at Pathé-Palace on 14 September 1916.

19 April 1916, Sunday matinee audience leaving the theatre satisfied with what they'd seen.

In 1933, after 20 years being known as Pathé Palace and Eden Theatro, it finally changes its name to Cine Recreio; 4 December 1933. 

Cine Theatro Recreio would re-open one of these days; 24 February 1937. 

Cine Theatro Recreio finally re-opens on 27 February 1937 with Charles Chaplin playing 'The Tramp' (O vagabundo) a 26-minute silent-movie released on 11 April 1915; RKO's 'Renegades of the West' with Tom Keene, released on 25 November 1932 and 'You may be next' (Piratas do radio) with Lloyd Nolan & Ann Sothern, released on 6 February 1936.

Tom Keene in 'Our daily bread' 1934. 

 1955.

Praça João Mendes tram stop in front of Padaria Santa Tereza, in 1954.

1933. 

Praça São Mendes in the 1940s, with Cine Recreio on the left.

1952 - with São Gonçalo's on the left, Cine Recreio (centre) and Sé Cathedral on the right.

Pça Clovis Bevilacqua on the left, Pça da Sé on the right & Pça João Mendes in back 1968.

Cine Recreio is encicled in red; Assembleia Legislativa Estadual encircled in yellow; São Gonçalo's is encircled in green. 

Demolição da Igreja Nossa Senhora dos Remédios, in 1942. Forum João Mendes Junior seria construído nesse terreno. 

Em 1933, assim era vista aérea da região central: a Praça da Sé, remodelada no seu tamanho atual desde 1913 e, bem atrás da Catedral em construção desde 1916, havia a Praça João Mendes. 

Desta, a partir do final dos anos 30, seria demolido, à sua direita, o Palácio da Câmara e Assembleia Estadual e, à sua esquerda, todas edificações até os limites da Rua Conde do Pinhal, entre elas a Igreja N. Sª. dos Remédios. Com isso, a Praça João Mendes duplicou seu tamanho.

Todas edificações que se veem à frente do Palácio de Justiça, inaugurado em 1933, foram demolidas até 1939, surgindo assim a Praça Clóvis Bevilacqua, cuja lateral direita foi formada pelo trecho da Rua XI de Agosto que terminava na Av. Rangel Pestana, mantendo-se a Rua Anita Garibaldi na sua lateral esquerda. Fonte:  "São Paulo: Vila, Cidade, Metrópole", Nestor Goulart Reis Filho, 2004.

Roberto and Ida Lippi at Praça João Mendes in the mid-1950s.

SÃO MIGUEL PAULISTA

Cine São Miguel located at Rua da Fábrica, opened in 1943... here's a photo taken in 1963, 20 years later. São Miguel Paulista had an older cinema called Cine V-8 at Praça Getulio Vargas Filho which was demolished in 1938; Vander Loureiro says he saw the last picture show screened at Cine V-8 - it was a Richard Dix flick about aviation... it could have been 'Sky Giant' released on 22 July 1938 in the U.S.A.

Cine Lapenna, São Miguel Paulista in 1959; it is probably a Sunday afternoon with a double-feature session: 'As façanhas de Hercules' (Le fatiche di Ercole) & 'Tormenta no paraiso' (Raw wind in Eden).

Chapel of the Archangel Saint Michael in São Miguel Paulista in the 1930s. 

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a boy sells a copy of evening paper 'Diario da Noite' circa 1939. 

Luftansa's office in Sao Paulo in 1939 just a short time before WWII.

Mappin Stores moves from Praça do Patriarca crossing Viaducto do Cha to be located in front of Theatre Municipal.

1940s.

Aerial view on 2nd April 1936. 

actor playwright Gianfrancesco Guarnieri rides his bycicle in the 1950s. 

Largo do Paisandú & environs...

Cine Art Palacio on the left was playing 'Um roubo em Paris' (The viscount) released in 1967.

Three years earlier in 1964, three tram cars are stuck in front of Cine Art Palacio which played 'O último dia do mundo'. 

Gui Castro Neves in Galeria do Rock on 3rd October 2018. 

Avenida São João in 1954... the fenced construction on the right is Grandes Galerias aka Galeria do Rock being built. 

Av.São João, Largo do Paisandú on 29 June 1958, the day Brazil won the match against Sweden and got FIFA's World Cup...

corner of Av. São João and Largo do Paisandú, in 1953. 

Rua Capitão Salomão in 1947, with Igreja dos Homens Pretos and Cine Art-Palacio in the background.

Largo do Paisandú - Igreja dos Homens Pretos, Hotel Victoria & Igreja Luterana - 1924.

1924.

1933. 

Largo Paysandú in 1929. See Piolin Circus on the extreme left below. 

an underground toilet with Piolin Circus in the background in1929.

inside Circo Piolin in 1945. 

Main entrance to Circo Piolin in 1945. See the billboard on the right: Rita Hayworth endorses Lever soap: Use my toilett soap!

1970s.