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CASINO DA URCA





Casino da Urca was the most glamorous place to be in South America during the Golden Years of Casinos (1930 – 46 ). At Rio de Janeiro Bay just next to Sugar Loaf, who would want a better location?

In their grill-room took place musical shows with big stars names like Bing Crosby, Jean Sablon, Martha Eggerth, Pedro Vargas,Toni Bennett, Edith Piaf, Amália Rodrigues... There Carmen Miranda used to present herself and it was on its stage that she first showed in public her bahianese out fit, designed by herself.

High society, during those glamorous years went there to have dinner, watch the shows and gamble. Fortunes were lost…

Gamow, the creator of the Big Bang theory working together with a Brazilian Mario Schömberg, created a theory named “Urca Effect” after his wife lost a fortune there, one night in1940.

In 1946 gambling was forbidden in Brazil and that was the end of casinos and their marvelous shows.

In ruins for years now the building is being renovated to be a Design Center, together Rio de Janeiro City Administration and Italian IED – European Institute of Design.

This post and all this blah-blah-blah was made for Luis Oak whom in his dreams would love to have been there. Me too…

Just imagine he and lovely JouJoux stopping in Rio de Janeiro, on their way to the honey-moon trip to Monte Carlo, to be my guest, on a table to see Bing Crosby show.

They bought very chic, he in his tuxedo and she in her elegant silk dress (Oh my God, I would be in high heels, not in my tennis shoes).


As we enter orchestra conducted by Pierre Kolman starts “JouJoux e Balangandans “ just made in her honor by Lamartine Babo, sung in a duet by Mario Reys and Mariah !!!!!

That would be real glory!

If anyone is curious about this song it is here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/41763681/08 ... s.mp3.html

This is a recent version by João Gilberto together with and Rita Lee, applauses included :

Havíamos passado o final de semana juntos, tinha acabado de deixá-la na rodoviária quando vim pra casa e abri o site. Marilena, caí de joelhos. Essa música é marco na nossa vida, toco no violão pra ela, fazemos duetos debaixo de cobertas.. enfim, maravilhoso ler sua descrição do que seria um encontro no suntuoso casiono da Urca.
Vc fica ótima de salt alto.
Imensamente grato :)

Sorrisos sob profundos suspiros, de minha parte e de Luiz. Tenho por certo que nossa Felicidade ao receber essa doce dedicatória pode ser equiparada às memórias junto de seu pai, exaladas por Prima e remoldadas em "Oh, Marí". Emoções distintas, mas amplamente proporcionadas pela Música que nos significa mais que um estalar de dedos ou pés a mostrar ritmo ao chão. A Música pela voz de seu pai ou pelos dedos encantadores de Luiz que me fascinam em cada movimento.

É um prazer estar com você, seja lado a lado em posts ou em um elegante casino de uma época gloriosa, na frente de Bing Crosby.

Obrigada por compartilhar seu conhecimento e cultura, pelo esplendoroso convite e por colocar meu Balangandã em um smoking! Você acertou na mosca, ele gosta muito de seda.

Get a room, you two!

I have no idea what this was all about and I could ask my wife to translate but I'm afraid it is dirty!

Ask her :) it's sweet

Vocês dois são uns amores, já me deram muitas alegrias...por isso não resistí ao desejo de fazer um agradinho!
Falando em seda, vamos parar de "rasgar seda" em público....

Estes tres últimos posts vão deixar nossos amigos gringos mortos de curiosidade

Frankie Manning the danceur was there too.

and put steps of the frevo in is coreo.

in the URCA casino


there is a description in is book like Norma Miller ones.

It will be nice to rebuild the casino as it was and inogurate it was the hellzapoppin coreo

kisses
from argentine

I didn`t see this post!!! "Charles1" is from Argentina!

Encantado de conocerte! Espero que sigas paseando por acà. Un abrazo enorme desde La Pampa.