The skyscraper jungle: view from my 17th-floor hotel balcony.
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Pedestrian mall in the city center.
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Collage of photos at the fine São Paulo Immigration Museum.
In the 1830s, São Paulo was a backwater of some 30,000 residents. Then the call
went out for European and Asian immigration, and the rest is history ...
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A local train still pulls into the old train station at the Immigration Museum,
housed in a building that was once the main hospital for arriving immigrants.
Canadian viewers, note the shirt ...
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