Enjoy Travel Rio de Janeiro Brazil

21/09: Enjoy Travel Rio de Janeiro Brazil - Old Rio do Janeiro

Many of may friends have asked me to post some additional photos of Rio do Janeiro from early 20´s century. It is really incredible how Rio grew so fast in terms of population and infra-structure. In 1910 for example, Rio already had a population of 1 million, two hundred thousand people. Famous beaches like Ipanema, Copacabana were practically virgin. Nature overall was barely untouched. If someone asked me in which period you would prefer to live nature wise, I would certainly chose those days!

The architecture as you will see followed much of the European with some oriental lines. Life in those days was definately NO STRESS. People could walk at the sidewalks, parks and beaches in peace with nature.

On another note, finding these Rio do Janeiro old school photos is not an easy task. Unfortunately, some of the "owners" of these pictures keep them locked in a safe. What good does this make to overall population in the world. Do these people really think they will make money on copyrights, even if they are 100 years old??? Makes n sense to me at all. Some of Rio´s government museums also hinder these initiatives to promote old school Rio photos. There are museums which have digitized more than 10,000 pictures of Rio but keep them unpublished!! I hope these 'policies' change and one day the Internet would be able to see what was Rio all about 50, 70, 80 years ago.

Enough of talk and politics! Let´s take a look at these amazing shots!