Rio Pequeno 1979

Myself and sister Rute on the street where we lived in Rio Pequeno circa 1979. The background in the distance is Vila Dalva. Rio Pequeno, yes our very own Little River ran at the end of our street.

Our next-door neighbours Djanira, Ico Tobias and Fabiana, their youngest daughter. Djanira's brother looks on.

Beti & her son Vladimir in 1979.

Myself in front of our house while it was still being added-upon. Ronaldo wants to get on the photo...

Rute in front of our house... in the middle of our street (Madness's 'Our house)... Ronaldo looks on...

in 1978 we were happy and we didn't know!

Rute holds our youngest cousin Arnaldo on her arms. The white fence belonged to Signore Salvatore who was an Italian migrant who lived with his wife Caterina in a little house there. I wish I had taken his picture too.

Cousin Reinaldo (wearing glasses), Macalé and two other guys check what's wrong with the Kombi. 

Sandra & Myself & Macalé's truck 'Monstrinho'. 

João, Osvaldo, Sandra, Yolanda, Clelia, Fernando, Maria Lucia & Luiz Carlos. 

Dad looks away and Douglas looks into the camera...

OUR  NEIGHBOURS 

Actually I wish I had taken a lot more pictures circa 1977 when we moved to Rio Pequeno. We had a lot of interesting neighbours. We had a few terrible ones too but time is really a magician because we tend to forget the bad times and remember only the good ones. 

We had a Portuguese family living opposite to our house... dona Ernestina and 'seu' Isaltino  who had three children: Afonsinho, Fatima and an older daughter Fernanda, who wasn't very friendly. 

Two houses up from ours there was signore Salvatore and dona Caterina, his frail wife who had a heart condition. Salvatore used to chat a lot... he had migrated from Napoli, Italy and received a pension from the Italian government. 

Our next-door neighbour was 'seu' João married to dona Julia who had three daughters: Lô (probably Lourdes), Mina and Meirinha. João had a horse he kept on a vacant lot between our houses. We eventually bought the plot which serves us as a garden today.

Irineu and Janet were a young couple who lived across the street next to the Portuguese family. They had a nice boy called Sergio. Much later they moved out and went to live in São José dos Campos-SP.

Next house up was 'seu' Dito's house. Benedito was married to dona Cinira and had a lot of adult children who eventually started getting married and moving out. Macalé (was already married when we moved in), Sonia, Suely, Osmar and three more.  

There was also dona Dina and her husband sr. Amorim (from Bahia) - same surname as ours but no relation. They had two boys: Ricardo and Renato. Later on dona Dina had another boy who was called Guilherme. 

Next house up was a Chilean family who moved out after a few years. I never knew their name.

Cinemas in Osasco and vicinity

Cine Eldorado na Avenida Vital Brasil, 427 passava 'Baixeza' (Crisscross) em 21 March 1961. Note aí o Cine Estoril de Osasco, que ainda era apenas um bairro de São Paulo e não uma cidade emancipada. 

Cine Glamour in Osasco.

Cine Glamour on a rainy day... not a glamorous road by any standard...

A lonely steer strolls on the street next to Cine Glamour. 

Estação de Osasco, vendo-se ao fundo Cine Glamour - 1950s.

Cinema Osasco in the 1930s or 1940s.

Cinema Osasco.

Cinema Osasco during the popular movement to make Osasco a municipality. It finally became a city in 1962. 

Cine Estoril in a 1968 photo.

Cine Glamour de Osasco em 21 March 1961; o Cine Goiás ficava na Rua Butantã e não no Largo de Pinheiros, como está na lista. Do lado de cá da ponte do Rio Pinheiros, existia o Cine Caxinguí, na Avenida Francisco Morato.

Eu tive a honra de frequentar o CINE CAXINGUÍ !!!

O Cine Caxinguí ficava alí na esquina da Rua João Scaciotti com a Avenida Francisco Morato. Foi lá que levei minha primeira namorada. As matinés eram super concorridas porque era o único cinema da região. Só havia o Cine Brasil, o cine Goiás e o Cine Jardim em Pinheiros. Aos domingos eram apresentados dois filmes e um seriado... que nunca acabava.. Mas quem assistia os filmes? Desde a inauguração em 1955 até o fechamento, por volta de 1960. Era programa obrigatório aos domingos. Era o único "escurinho" da época....Quanta saudade, Saia do cinema e já estava começando a quermesse da igreja de Sto. Antonio. Eitcha tempinho bom...

escreveu Medeiros Lima - Sep 2, 2006 - no Orkut

A torre a TV Gazeta e o infeliz crime do Caxingui, ocorrido em 8 Dezembro 1962. O Cine Caxingui, ali na esquina da Rua João Scaciotti com a Avenida Francisco Morato, a Pizzaria Previdência, o João “barbeiro” que hoje está na Rua João Scaciotti, outrora tinha um salão no largo do Caxingui.

Cine Estoril hoje... Igreja Internacional da Graça de Deus.

antigo Cine Estoril, em Osasco.

os meninos estão ávidos para entrar na matinee para assistir 'Pinocchio' de Walt Disney. 

nota-se que o sexo masculino é quase que 100% da multidão de crianças de Osasco..

'Samba em Brasília' e 'Dona Violante Miranda'; programa-duplo de filmes nacionais - 1960.

1967 - 4a. e 5a. feira: 'Tirados dos braços da morte' ('A covenant with death') e 'Onde começa o inferno' (1959's 'Rio Bravo')... e o sorveteiro fazendo muitos negócios nessa fila.

 'Jéca e a égua milagrosa' foi o último filme de Mazzaroppi - 1980. Ele morreria no ano seguinte 1981.

'Um whisky antes, um cigarro depois' - 1970 - filme com Sandra Brea e Mario Benvenutti.

L A P A

Antigo Cine Recreio, na rua Engenheiro Fox, 62, na Lapa de Baixo, de frente à estação de trem, fechou nos final dos anos 1950. Tornou-se salão de dança e atualmente está desocupado. 

vista do interior do Cine Recreio, na Lapa de Baixo.

Nesse prédio funcionou o Cine Recreio, local onde os lapeanos assistiram desde o cinema mudo até os filmes com artistas memoráveis, até o final da década de 50, quando ele encerrou as atividades.

Me recordo de ter ido algumas vezes assistir filmes das matinês de domingo. Nessa época na “Lapa de baixo” moravam muitas famílias de imigrantes italianos, espanhóis e portugueses que trabalhavam na antiga São Paulo Railway e na Fábrica de Tecidos e Bordados Lapa. Franc 2009.

Cine Nacional, na rua Clelia, um dos maiores do Brasil. 

Visiting Beto Abrantes in Osasco

on the inter-municipal bus going west to Carapicuiba, Sunday 2:00 PM.

going past ex-Cine Estoril on Avenida dos Autonomistas.

getting off on Estação General Miguel Costa aka Estação Km 21.

Estação Km 21.

one has to go all the way up Ave. Luiz Henrique de Oliveira to the top of the hill then turn right into rua São Bento.

Osasco é cultura.

Rua São Bento... one can see São Paulo's beltway (Rodo-anel) in the back with trucks galore trundling down... this beltway is only half-way through completion...

Carapicuiba's Conjunto Habitacional seen from this side of the Rodo-anel with the sun shining brightly.

Carapicuiba seen from Osasco... see Congregação Cristã no Brasil on top of the hill...

a typical old house in Osasco...

if you look really hard you'll see there's a bird on the back of this horse.

a horse grazing on Beto's street...

I have finally got to Beto's house...

Beto, Myself and Claudia Passoni on Sunday afternoon - 12 August 2012.

We spent a very pleasant afternoon talking about all kinds of subjects while Beto played his favourite records on the record player. Nilo Amaro & Seus Cantores de Ébano singing 'Ô leva eu, minha saudade', 'Greenfields', 'Fiz a cama na varanda'; Dilú Melo's original recording of 'Fiz a cama na varanda'; Estelinha Egg and her folk records; early Angela Maria singing Ivon Curi's 'Orgulho' and other gems; Laila Curi's first album which is good through and through; Agnaldo Rayol's first album for Copacabana where he does a very good rendition of 'Serenata do adeus'; Trio Surdina's 10" playing Ary Barroso... and a little Italian music with a touch of Michel Polnareff.

We drank a marvellous coffee with home-made bread baked by Beto's mother, Ana... and 'bolinho de chuva'. Oh, what a lovely afternoon...

Jaraguá's Peak as seen from Osasco. This is the highest peak in the São Paulo metropolitan area. 

Spring time in Rio Pequeno 2012.

An ypê tree blooms by the side of the football field - July 2012.

Joãozinho by the shade of the Ypê tree.

Ypê tree in July 2012.

Joãozinho at our backyard, on 8 November 2012. 

One of the many one-block streets shooting off Avenida do Rio Pequeno.

A street washed up with  rain... leading up to Avenida Politécnica.

This is what became of Rio Pequeno (Little River) after it's been put on a concrete bed. It is polluted to the hilt. I planted this pitanga tree by it to make a little difference.

Guava trees, pitanga  and jack-fruit trees were planted by common citizens along the way the brook rolls on. Avenida Escola Politécnica runs on both sides of the brook. 

An avocado tree tries its best to flourish in such a harsh environment. The orange tree puts up a similiar struggle.

a little foul water-fall... pardon my pun!!! 

see those 3 cherry trees around the bend on Avenida Politecnica? It's August 2012.

Cherry tree blosoming straight out of Avenida Politecnica in Rio Pequeno.

three cherry trees grow in Rio Pequeno...

graffitti are everywhere...

graffitti galore!

Rio Pequeno bus getting near Cinco Quinas (Five Ways) stop on its outbound trip...


next to Cinco Quinas (Five Ways)

Trying desperately to get away from Rio Pequeno... look at glorious  San Remo favela!

slums looming over... San Remo seen from Rio Pequeno.

new-fagled busses serving Rio Pequeno as of June 2012.