Adoniran Barbosa / Nair Bello

Adoniran Barbosa whose 'Trem das Onze' was his most enduring hit. Here he was 76 years old and ready to board a metropolitan train in Sao Paulo in the late 1970s. Adoniran would die on 23rd November 1982 having reached the age of 70 years. 

Adoniran as he appeared in Ferenc Feket's 'Pensão da dona Stela', in 1956.

Adoniran was born João Rubinato in Valinhos-SP, on 6 August 1912. Here's when he worked at Radio Record de São Paulo. 

Sport Club Corinthians Paulista, 1952. 

Adoniran Barbosa (54) poses for a photo for Manchete, 20 March 1965, on Jaçanã railway station. 

'Manchete', 20 March 1965. 

Adoniran at Largo São Bento, in 1978.

Nair Bello is a typical example of someone who was born in São Paulo from a middle-classe background who made the grade first working as a speaker at Radio Excelsior, then moving on to Radio Record, the most popular Paulista broadcaster and then reaching for the stars... 

Interview given to Intervalo magazine in September 1963. 

Busses, trains & trams

Linha 444 Santa Clara-Praça Clovis ou 443 Vila Ema-Praça Clovis. Empresa Vila Paulina Ltda. fazia as regiões de Vila Prudente, Alto da Moóca (Vila Santa Clara) e Sapopemba (Jardim Colorado).

Educandário bus when municipal CMTC was still in existence... 

A street-car aka tram going to Praça da Sé on Avenida Rangel Pestana in August 1958. The round building in the back is Rino Levi's Edifício Guanary, before the state-government built Prédio da Fazenda do Estado de São Paulo. 

Trams are stuck for some ungodly reason on Avenida São João just in front of Cine Art Palacio which plays 'Último dia do mundo' circa 1964. 

Estação da Luz - Rua Mauá

Rua Mauá in the 1950s.

same place seen from the other side... 

Estação da Luz main entrance, on Rua Mauá, in 1957. 

a Ford 1946 sedan with its chauffeur  having Hotel Federal Paulista in the back in 1950.

Rua Mauá...

Estação da Luz, 1954.

Café and refreshments sold next to the platform down where trains started and finished in the 1940s. 

Cia.Paulista locomotive with train... 

Praça Princesa Isabel with the humongous monument to Duque de Caxias, in 1963. See the First Brazilian Baptist Church on the corner. 

Rua Mauá in 1870, on the right; on the left is what would become Luz train-station in the future. 

Theatro Santana on Rua 24 de Maio / Theatro Paramount 1956

Vista tomada do Hotel Esplanada onde vemos a esquina das ruas 24 de Maio e Conselheiro Crispiniano. Note à esquerda, o estabelecimento comercial "Casas Mestre e Blatgé" — na Praça Ramos de Azevedo, nº10 - 14. Sim, é a Mesbla, resultado da junção das 3 primeiras letras dos nomes de seus proprietários. 

Na mesma calçada mais à frente, vemos o Theatro Sant'Anna que foi inaugurado em 25 Abril 1921, pela Companhia Italiana de Opereta de Clara Weiss. 

Esteve ativo até 1957, sendo demolido em 1958, pela 2ª vez em sua história. Triste sina desta casa de espetáculos que veio para a 24 de Maio devido à construção do Viaducto Boa Vista sobre a Rua General Carneiro. 

A imagem registrada circa 1937 é de autoria do francês Claude Lévi-Strauss, falecido em 2000. Foi antropólogo, etnológo, pensador e professor; nas horas livres, um excelente fotógrafo. Acervo do Instituto Moreira e Salles. Amplie para uma melhor visualização.

10 January 1957 - columnist Ney Machado from Rio de Janeiro's 'A Noite' tells the whole story how Sao Paulo was given a great present with the renovation of old Cine Paramount which was turned into a complete theatre now. It would re-open its doors on Friday, 18 January 1957. Impresarios Bernardo Wull Bregman (photo) and Julio Lorenzi put up the money for the renovation and managed the theatre now. 

João Artacho Jurado, architect

1940s.

Artacho Jurado at Viaduto Jacareí, in 1957. 

Viaducto 9 de Julho in 1955, with João Artacho Jurado's building in the back...  

Beto Abrantes saunters towards Praça da Republica in 2018.

Miss USA 1958, Eurlyne Howell visits Edificio Bretagne with its architect João Artacho Jurado.