Culture Time

Instead of talking about games, Games' Place is here to give to this blog some culture about our city, São Gonçalo. We live in a city, that isn't the most beautiful or even the safest city, but it has much history, and it's good to everione that live there or even admire this city to know. Our city in the past, had the nickname of Manchester Fluminense, because our city has many industries in its territory, and when Sao Gonçalo had this nickname, nobody that were living here was unemployed. The city started as a hamlet, was settled in the place where nowadays we have Zé Garoto square, by a man that received the control of this place, and he wanted to built a church of the saint of his most devotion, São Gonçalo D'Amarante. This church was on place where nowadays we've the Matriz's church, on Zé Garoto neighborhood. In the escucheon of São Gonçalo above, we've some informations about the age when our city was recognized as a city, 1890, we've an image os the coffee tree and the sugar cane tree, things that were planted on Rio de Janeiro at this age, and in the middle the industries that since the beggining was the sign of our city, with a gear, representing the labour.But yesterday, at night I was surfing in the net, and I found many pics from our city, and I want to expose them to you, I think there are so interesting pictures of our city.

Hamlet of São Gonçalo - About 1900

Entrance of São Gonçalo - 1920

Raul Veiga Road - 1920

Matriz Church - 1920

Neves' Cinema - 1930

Paraíso's Cinema - 1930

Várzea das Moças - 1930

Feliciano Sodré Street - 1950

Brasilândia - 1952

Lira's Square, Neves - 1960

Inauguration of the Fountain on Zé Garoto Square - 1961

Luiz Palmier Square, Centro - 1970

Zé Garoto Square - 1975

Downtown - 1978

Colubandê Site - 1979

Downtown - 1999

Vila Lage Square - Without Year

That was another post by Lucas Bittencourt from Games' Place.