1939 RIO DE JANEIRO magazine article, history people Carnival color photos

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Selling is a 1939 magazine article about:
RIO DE JANEIRO
Title: RIO PANORAMA
Author: W. Robert Moore
Subtitled "Breath-taking Is This Fantastic City amid Peaks, Palms, and Sea, and in Carnival Time It Moves to the Rhythm of Music”
Quoting the first page “The River of January proved a myth. Andre Goncalves-if indeed it was he, as most historians now believe- was wrong. The vast reach of water on the newly discovered Brazilian coast, into which he sailed on New Year's Day, 1502, and which he named Rio de Janeiro, was not the mouth of a mighty river, but a bay.
No myth is Rio de Janeiro, gigantic Brazil's gay capital, which has grown on the western shores of this bay. But it almost seemed so to us when, the twelfth morning out of New York, the throb of the propellers of our Good Neighbor Ship, the
S. S. Uruguay
, slowed down for the first time.
Straight into the midst of incredible mountain crags we steered. Mists and fog so distorted the perspective that they appeared like the paintings of some ancient Chinese master who had piled peak upon peak to portray his bizarre Garden of the Gods. Rio couldn't be here, but it was!
Morning breezes soon blew away the mists, but not Rio's unreality. Peaks, pinnacles, and bold granite buttes are the city's skyscrapers, its skyline. Sheer from the sea, and above shimmering sickles of sandy beach fringing the Atlantic and the bay, they soar heavenward on every side.
There's Gavea, whose name may mean either the crow's nest or the sail of a ship, but whose queerly shaped top seems with less fancy to form an old Crusader castle, complete with guard towers. There's Dois Irrnaos, the Two Brothers, overlooking the seaside suburbs of Leblon and Ipanema.
Unmistakable landmark to Rio is Pao de Assucar (Sugar Loaf), a bare granite cone standing sentinel at the narrow gateway of the bay, with a spiderlike aerial tramway climbing up and down on its web strand from Urca.
Rearing high above the city is Corcovado, the Hunchback, a precipitous pinnacle that has become a 2,300-foot pedestal for a colossal statue of Christ. Beyond slumbers bulky Tijuca, with the profile of a reclining giant. These, and numerous other forested hills, segment the city or form its spectacular backdrop.
Not content with these wonders, Nature has marshaled countless other green hills and granite spurs to bracket island-studded Guanabara Bay.
In famed Sydney Harbour, Hong Kong and its broad roadstead, the Bay of Naples, and San Francisco, writers have sought comparisons. I have seen them all, but still I…"
7” x 10”, 42 pages, 12 B&W & 34 color photos
These are pages carefully removed from an actual 1939 magazine.
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