D.J.s & radio announcers - 1950s & 1960s

  Renato Macedo was one of the Macedo Brothers; Blota Junior started on radio, then went to TV 

 producer & speaker Henrique Lobo; Moraes Sarmento thrived in the 'oldies but goodies' segment 

 popular comedian Murilo Amorim Correa impersonated Vitório, Jacinto etc.: Odayr Marzano 

  Nhô Totico, the greatest S.Paulo broadcaster in the 30s & 40s; Waldemar Ciglione 

radio-actress Cecy de Alencar; Stella Camargo sang with her sister Hebe as Rosalina & Florisbela.

Walter Forster started as a comedian and graduated as a leading man in novelas; Pagano Sobrinho was a great comedian who worked well into the late 1960s; Zé Fidelis was a comedian who also recorded myriad of parodys lampooning hits of the day. 

before making it in São Paulo, Barros de Alencar (from Paraíba) worked at Radio Guarany in Belo Horizonte-MG in 1958.  

Mário Júlio (left), Revista do Radio São Paulo editor grants some sort of gold-medal to singer Wilson Miranda in 1960; next photo singer George Freedman accepts the same honour from the hands of Revista do Radio operative Osvaldo Siccone, being watched by Julio Rosemberg, Radio Cultura DJ and compere. Julio Rosemberg was a great radio man in São Paulo. He went back to his native Rio Grande do Sul in the 1970s.

Radio Bandeirantes as it stood on 24 March 1963:

9:00 - A dança das horas - Omar Cardoso
9:30 - Discomentando - Ricardo Macedo
10:00 - Pick up do Pica Pau - Fernando Solera
12:00 - Mil discos é o limite - Fernando Solera
13:00 - Telefone pedindo bis - Henzo de Almeida Passos - Gessy
14:00 - É disco que eu gosto - Fausto Canova - Crush
14:30 - Atendendo o ouvinte - Henzo de Almeida Passos
15:00 - Qual é a música? - Rubens Greiffo
16:00 - Vitrola mágica - Henzo de Almeida Passos - Eletro-radiobrás
17:00 - Sem discussão - Vicente Leporace
18:00 - Os brotos comandam - Sergio Galvão - Kibon
18:30 - Sambalanço - Fausto Canova

22:00 - Programa Moraes Sarmento - Rivo

Luiz Aguiar, here seen performing for a Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo-SP radio station, was a DJ for Radio Bandeirantes in the late 1960s and 1970s.

Radio Bandeirantes in the afternoon 

Radio Bandeirantes in the 1970s. Moraes Sarmento at Noon, Sergio Galvão at 1:00 PM, José Paulo de Andrade at 2:00, Luiz Aguiar at 3:00, Enzo de Almeida Passos at 4:00, Wanderley Cardoso at 5:30, Miguel Vaccaro Netto at 5:30 and Giogia Junior at 6:00.

1947 Rio Tiete

Aerial view of Rio Tietê in 1947, before it was 'tamed' into one little stream.

Favela do Canindé circa 1960. Maria Corolina de Jesus who became famous after writing 'Beyond all pity' (Quarto de despejo) with her editor and actress Ruth de Souza. The whole area was leveled  to the ground; Tietê River's many turns were 'corrected' and the automobile won the war. Everything was cemented over and barren sterility prevails now. 

Avenida Sao Luiz 1950s & 1960s

Avenida São Luiz in 1947, photographed by Dmitri Kessel for Life magazine.

Avenida São Luiz with Avenida Ipiranga in September 1947.

a few months later in 1948... see the Atlantic Garage on the right.

Avenida São Luiz, in 1939, seen from the top of City Library looking towards Avenida Ipiranga and Escola Normal Caetano de Campos.

Praça da Republica, Colegio Caetano de Campos and the corner of Avenida Sao Luiz & Av. Ipiranga where those buildings would be built - circa 1943. 

1958.

actors Miro Cerni & John Hebert read their script before shooting a scene on the corner of Avenida São Luiz and Avenida Ipiranga in 1954.

café on Avenida São Luiz in 1964. 

Avenida Ipiranga corner with Avenida São Luiz. 

Av. Sao Luiz looking towards Hotel Jaraguá, 1955.

Av. São Luiz having Colegio Caetano de Campos (Pça.da Republica) in the backgroung; late 1960s or early 1970s.

Av. São Luiz after some celebration in which people threw out paper out of surrounding buildings; probably late 70s or early 80s.