2014 Prince Harry visits Cracolandia-SP

British Prince Harry visits Cracolandia (Crackville) in São Paulo along with São Paulo's mayor Fernando Haddad on 25 June 2014, while he was in town during his stay in Brazil as part of Football's World Cup hullabaloo... 

Prince Harry proved to be very fearless and ended up having fun mingling with the recovering crack users. Nothing better than images to prove all...

Prince Harry met recovering crack addicts and was mobbed by huge crowds in a violent São Paulo slum. Luz or Cracolândia (Crackville) as its nickname, is notorious for drugs, with crack available for as little as 80p. An estimated 1 in 3 residents die within 5 years of arriving in Crackland - usually meeting violent ends.

The prince toured a new rehabilitation facility. By Ruth Styles.

Prince Harry speaks to Diana das Neves (25) and Ricardo da Silva (34) both of whom have just started cleaning jobs - at Crackville in São Paulo on a winter afternoon, 25 June 2014.

Prince Harry and S.Paulo mayor Fernando Haddad look on intently as a former crack addict tells his story at the Open Arms (Braços Abertos) rehab centre.

All smiles: The ex-addicts, some of whom were about to begin work in the first jobs they have ever had, beam as they pose with the prince. As a large police and security presence kept order outside, Harry walked into the building and was surrounded by the workers who took his picture with their camera phones. He chatted to reformed drug-users, among them Ricardo da Silva, 34, who first began using crack when he was a young boy. When Harry arrived, Mr. da Silva was beginning his cleaning round - the first job he has ever taken. 'My life was very difficult but now it's changed. I'm trying to forget the past,' he explained.'I started to use crack when I was eight. In the past I used crack 24 hours a day but not anymore.' Smiling, he added: 'The last time I used it was on Sunday.' Nevertheless, Mr. da Silva, who spent 4 years on the streets of Crackland says he is turning over a new leaf.

see more at:  http://www.uknewsday.com/lifestyle/46534-prince-harry-meets-drug-addicts-as-he-tours-violent-crime-ridden-sao-paulo-slum.html

Do we have something to celebrate? I guess so! Prince Harry got into the spirit of things... 

in the meantime... it's business as usual at Crackville...

Good morning, Mr. Sunshine, you brighten up my day...

Fernando Haddad guides Prince Harry through the maze of cameras & people.

Cracolandia's glorious day!

Tragic: Prince Harry looks grim as he meets recovering crack-addicts and hears their stories in Cracolândia - one of the most notorious slums in Brazil.

see more at:  http://www.uknewsday.com/lifestyle/46534-prince-harry-meets-drug-addicts-as-he-tours-violent-crime-ridden-sao-paulo-slum.html

1965 Radio stations

A few pages of Revista do Radio's section 'São Paulo não para' with news from the radio scene in the largest city in Brazil. 

Luiz Aguiar substituted Sergio Galvão at Radio Bandeirantes at the helm of 'Os brotos comandam' (Teens rule) circa 1965. 

DJ Ricardo Macedo had a daily show during 1965, called 'Placard Bandeirantes do Sucesso' at Radio Bandeirantes. On Mondays & Tuesdays from 9:30 to 10:00 AM Ricardo Macedo showed the 10 best selling extended-plays (5 on Monday & 5 on Tuesday); on Wednesdays and Thursdays Macedo presented the 10 best selling albums; on Friday & Saturdays he showed the 10 best selling singles. On Sundays, Ricardo Macedo had a 2-hour show starting at 10:00 AM up to mid-day where he played the 25 best selling singles of the week.

At Radio Tupi, that had been 'modernized and revolutionized' by Helio Ribeiro, there was a 1 hour show from 9:00 to 10:00 where Uruguayan DJ Alberto Moravi presented the best European pop music there was. Alberto Moravi had an espetacular collection of 45 rpms imported from various European countries and played them at his show. Moravi hardly spoke Portuguese so the Brazilian Speakers Union entered with a petition at the Ministry of Communications (whatever its name was then) to have a ban imposed on him. The ban came and Alberto Moravi's show which was the best thing possible for the fans of rock & pop music was axed for ever.

By August 1965, Helio Ribeiro had already left Radio Tupi and went to Radio Panamericana to do his revolution there too.

Article about the popularity of Luiz Vieira, written by Mario Julio, Revista do Radio's man in São Paulo.

Here is the list of the 19 different radio stations in Rio de Janeiro in 1965.

550    Radio Eldorado
590    Radio Relógio
680    Radio Copacabana
720    Radio Carioca
800    Radio Ministério da Educação
860    Radio Mundial
900    Radio Tamoio
940    Radio Jornal do Brasil
980    Radio Nacional

1.030 Radio Continental
1.060 Radio Metropolitana
1.130 Radio Mauá
1.180 Radio Globo
1.220 Radio Mayrink Veiga
1.280 Radio Tupi
1.320 Radio Rio de Janeiro
1.360 Radio Guanabara
1.400 Radio Roquette Pinto
1.430 Radio Vera Cruz

São Paulo radio stations circa 1965

620    Radio Panamericana
670    Radio Excelsior
700    Radio Eldorado
780    Radio Marconi
840    Radio Bandeirantes
890    Radio Gazeta
960    Radio Difusora

1.000 Radio Record
1.040 Radio Tupi
1.100 Radio Nacional
1.200 Radio Piratininga
1.300 Radio São Paulo
1.380 Radio Industrial Paulista
1.410 Radio America
1.600 Radio Nove de Julho

Radio Cometa
Radio Santo Amaro.

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 in the 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.  

1940s Buenos Aires / Rio de Janeiro in the 2020s

Here are some photos of Buenos Aires, another giant South American city that in a certain way could have been similar to São Paulo. But that's only on the surface because there is nothing so much different from each other as Buenos Aires and São Paulo.

Buenos Aires is a city with few inclinations that is, its terrain is relatively plain as where as São Paulo is full of hills and mountains.

Calle Corrientes in Buenos Aires in the late 1950s. 

Even though this blog is about São Paulo in the 40s and 50s I could not forget Rio de Janeiro, the most beautiful Brazilian city... and here's a spot to insert nice pictures about the former Distrito Federal...

this shot is so amazing it looks like a Walt Disney 1940s animated film...

Lapa's Arches photographed by John Napper. 

Theatro Municipal's cupola photographed by John Napper.