Avenida Tiradentes

1952.

Palacio Zarzur & Kogan aka 'Mirante do Vale' in 1965. 

BANCO DO BRASIL building through the years

Banco do Brasil building well on its way circa 1949. It would be completed in 1954 hiding part of the majestic Banco do Estado de S.Paulo building...

1949.

1952.

1953.

1960s.

Avenida Casper Libero

Art-Deco bus-shelter 1950.

Rua Casper Libero in 1956.

1943.

Rua Casper Líbero in the late 1960s; Parque Perouche bus to Santana. 

1930.

Viaducto Sancta Ephigenia leading to Avenida Casper Libero. 

Aeroporto de Congonhas

Congonhas in 1968. 

Praça Ramos de Azevedo & Viaducto do Cha

Edificio Conde Prates (just starting) & Othon Palace Hotel (well-advanced) under construction in the 1950s. 

both buildings already finished - maybe 1959. 

Rua Formosa in 1952.

Praça do Correio in 1963. 

actor Tarciso Meira next to the Pedestrian Underground Passage under Rua Xavier de Toledo, circa 1963.monument to architect Ramos de Azevedo circa 1953.

monument to Ruy Barbosa on Praça Ramos de Azevedo in 1953. 

Lulu Pavone in front of the same Ruy Barbosa statue on 29 October 2014. 

late 1950s.

Family stroll the footpath in front of Theatro Municipal, in the 1950s. 

Young ladies accompanied by a chaperone cross Viaducto do Chá in the 1950s.

a man in double-breasted suit walks on Viaducto do Chá in 1950; Mappin near Christmas time in the 1950s. 

Rua Xavier de Toledo next to Viaducto do Chá in 1950.

Mappin Stores mid-1960s.

1950s.

Rua do Triumpho - Boca-do-Lixo cinema

Rua do Triumpho, near Sao Paulo Railway station was the hub of a Brazilian soft-porn movie-making in the 1970s and 1980s, Many were the film companies that made their offices around the area. Here's a photo taken probably in the mid-1970s showing director Carlos Reichenbach. 

Matheus Trunk writes: no cantinho à direita, o assistente-de-camera Luizinho Oliveira (de bigode e óculos escuros) aka Luizinho Panavision.

Debora Muniz: ... e de costas, de camiseta azul, está o Norberto Ramalho, que trabalhava como produtor de elenco. 

Klaus Kopezky: também tomei muito Guaraná aí com meu saudoso pai, o Kopezky. 

 

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...