Peixes Voadores tour

Buddhist shrine in Marilia 1957

Buddhist shrine 'Shinshu Honganji' built on Rua 24 de Dezembro, 1.587 was inaugurated in August 1957. 

procession passing through Marilia's downtown streets heading to the top of the hill...

Buddhist procession marching down Rua São Luiz heading West...

the procession keeps marching on...

at the top of the hill near the Buddhist Shrine... 

Rua 24 de Dezembro looking East; see Saint Anthony's church far away on the right-hand side.

Rua 24 de Dezembro in August 1957. 

Rua 24 de Dezembro & Borba Gato. 

Jogos Abertos do Interior em Campinas 1944

At Campinas' Bosque (park) during the Hinterland Open Games of 1944 (Jogos Abertos do Interior): Valdeir Hauhers, Tereza Pereira, Luzia Pereira, Cidoca, Maria Nilce, Irene e Guerda Gronemman & Dermanio Silva.

Valdemar Darin is the fellow in the forefront with a young lady leaning on him... 

Fausto Alonso, treinador do Yara, Amelia Paiva, Irene; ajoelhadas: Maria Nilce e Beatriz Gheini. 

Amelia Paiva & Maria Nilce & Amelia's niece Solange Maria Paiva in 1946. 

Sylvio Bertonha at home.

Japanese heritage in Marilia

Ivan Ivangelista Jr. went to a flea marked in Marilia and found 2 wooden-boxes made in Japan that sailed for Brazil in the famous Santos-Maru. He also found 6 photograph albums filled with pictures belonging to the Sugayama family, mostly taken during the 1940s.

 is honoured by the Japanese community in the region of Marilia - 1958.

two wooden boxes that contained a lot of memorabilia from Japan and photos of Japanese immigrants who moved to the Marilia area in the 1930s.

is welcome at Marilia Airport by Marilia's high-society ladies; first lady on the left is Regina Eppinghaus Barbalho; Georgina Barreto (married to Barretinho - on the extreme right; the Japanese lady on the left flanking the ladey with the gladiolas is Mrs Nakamura married to the chemist on Rua Sao Luiz.

Afternoon tea at Cida Moretti's house on Rua Nelson Spielmann, just behind Saint Beneditct's. Regina Eppinghaus Barbalho plays the piano in the background.

Regina Eppinghaus stops playing the piano and joins the conversation. 

In civilian clothes with Hamilton Costa & wife Cida Moretti holding their boy; Hamilton had a butcher shop at the Municipal Market on rua XV de Novembro. They lived in a house on Rua Nelson Spielmann, behind Saint Benedict's.

the house on rua Nelson Spielmann.

Julio Minei & Hide on the day of their wedding. 

Rua 9 de Julho

What is known in Marília as Rua 9 de Julho started out in the 1920s having 3 different names. It started out as Rua Minas Gerais on top of the hill - where Avenida Vicente Ferreira is - where Santa Isabel's church is now located - and went down all the way to the railway line where it changed name to Rua Ceará - keeping this denomination for only 3 blocks up to Avenida Sampaio Vidal. 

As this avenue used to divide the community in two different sections - crossing the avenue the Street had a 2nd change of name to Rua Tamandaré and went all the way through the area kwnow then as Alto Cafezal. 

Rua 9 de Julho looking up to Avenida Sampaio Vidal in early 50s. This was the stretch called Rua Ceará that extended from the train-line up to Avenida from the 1920s up to 1934. 

Rua 9 de Julho corner with rua Carlos Gomes in the early 1960s. with Loja Vigorelli at the corner, Salão Azul (barbershop), Vamos Ler (news agency), Salão Carioca (another barbershop), entrance to Norival Carneiro Rodrigues' house (the owner of Loja Vigorelli), Casa Pérola on the ground and Grande Hotel on the upper floors, Casa Formosa, Pastorinho etc. 

1953.

Great White Hope... Edificio Marilia was the symbol of Marilia for some decades... 

same stretch of road in the late 1930s.

Casa Verde on the corner of 9 de Julho with rua Ypiranga; posted by Felipe Melo who says: Essa foi a Casa Verde dos meus avós e dos meus pais e tios, à rua Nove de Julho esquina com a passagem de nível. A construção anexa era o sobrado que meu avô construiu para morar. 

O prédio à direita da foto, foi construído em 1927 (tinha a data na fachada) e foi o Hotel Ypiranga.

Rua 9 de Julho when it was still called Rua Tamandaré.

Rua Tamandaré in 1932; soon it would change its name to Rua 9 de Julho. 

Rua Tamandaré had a movie-theatre between Avenida & Rua São Luiz. See a papier-mache airplane hanging aloft near the entrance thereof advertising MGM's latest production 'Hell divers' translated as 'Gigantes do céo', released in the USA on 16 January 1932.  

Wallace Beery & Clark Gable in 'Hell divers'.

corner of Avenida Sampaio Vidal with Rua Tamandaré which had a name change circa 1934 to Rua 9 de Julho. 

'A Predilecta' lottery shop on the corner of rua 4 de Abril with rua 9 de Julho.

Marilia as seen by Klaus Jürgen E.K.Mahrenholz, photographer

Sao Paulo photographer Klaus Jürgen E.K. Mahrenholz visited Marilia circa 1955 and took a lot of shots of the young city. Now, Klaus has got a page on Facebook where he posts most of his stuff. Unfortunately, most of his material has deteriorated but some of them photos are still fairly good. 

São Bento's snapshot has deteriorated badly, but one can still see how it looked like in 1955.

Rua 9 de Julho looking up to Avenida; Avenida looking East are pretty bad. 

Botucatu in 1955

Botucatu's Episcopal Palace. Marilia's diocese was under their authority.

from left to right: City's Orphanage; Sant'Anna's Church - Instituto Cardoso de Almeida. 

Cine Teatro Casino in Botucatu.

Rua Armando de Barros, Botucatu, 1955.