AVENIDA IPIRANGA 1950s & beyond...

Avenida Ipiranga looking towards Avenida Rio Branco.

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... 

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

...a few years later...