AVENIDA IPIRANGA 1950s & beyond...

Avenida Ipiranga looking towards Avenida Rio Branco.

Viação Cometa on the corner of Avenida Rio Branco & Avenida Ipiranga -  early 1950s.

Av. Ipiranga corner Av. São Luiz in the 1951; see Maurice Chevalier bills covering a protective fence on Colegio Caetano de Campos.  

Colegio Caetano de Campos, 1954.

Edifício Esther designed by Alvaro Vital Brasil (son of a famous public health doctor) was the first modernist building in São Paulo. Painter Di Cavalcanti lived in a flat there. 

Avenida Ipiranga corner with Rua 24 de Maio. 

Av. Ipiranga in 1952. Pça da República on the right-side; Consolação church at the top. 

Av. Ipiranga next to Av. São Luiz - see Vila Normanda on the right hand side. These German-style houses would soon be demolished to have Edificio Italia in its place... 

Av. Ipiranga corner with Av. São Luiz; Vila Normanda is seen on the far right side. 

Edifício Italia's construction in the early 1960s. It took the place of Vila Normanda. 

...a few years later...