Abstract
In 1926, a public advertisement reproduced a picture taken from a balcony of one of the houses architect Barry Parker built in the Pacaembu neighborhood in São Paulo nearly ten years before.2 The headline boldly announced: “The Splendid Balconies of This Pacaembu Mansion (palacete) Reveal a Vast and Gorgeous Panorama.”3 In reality, this gorgeous deserted panorama was a real concern for the company that owned the area, and the political machinations to turn this swampy area into a lucrative business is the main focus of this chapter.
“The past is a cemetery of promises which have not been kept.” 1
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Quoted in Paul Ricoeur, “Reflections on a New Ethos for Europe,” Philosophy and Social Criticism, vol.2, n. 5/6, (1995), 8–9.
On the history of the São Paulo Football Club (founded in 1930), see Nestor Goulart Reis Filho, São Paulo e outras cidades. Produção social e degradação dos espaços urbanos (São Paulo: Hucitec, 1994). On the importance of Pacaembu Stadium in the club’s history (as its headquarters from 1940 to 1951), see http://www.saopaulofc.com.br/. The site explains the club’s history before its move (sponsored by the municipality) to the Jardim Leonor neighborhood.
Sir Arthur Philip Du Cros (187–1955) was Cia City director, barrister at law, first baroner, founder of Dunlop Rubber Co. (1912), Pneumatic Tyre and Booth’s Cycle Agency general manager to chairman (1892–1930), Cia City London board director (1930s) and president (1940), and colonel (retired) in the Royal Warwickahire regiment. Du Cros wrote about the story of pneumatic tire invention and industry in Wheels of Fortune, a Salute to Pioneers (1938).
Antonio Smith (Schimith) Bayma (1893) graduated from POLI in civil engineering (1911–16). His parents were Theodoro da Silva Bayma and Antonia Smith (POLI file 424). Antonio Bayma disagreed with the DC creation and clashed with many of the department’s tenets. Though he was not attuned to DC policies, Antonio was a “young man with good intentions who believed that all gymnastic instructors nominated to the new elementary schools in the park program should have had been trained by his department”; quoted in Paulo Duarte, Memórias, Selva escura (São Paulo: Hucitec, 1976), 280. Antonio lived at Chile Street in Jardim América (1934).
Note that in other municipalities of the state, the radius was six kilometers. See Candido Cunha Cintra, “Reintegração sem posse e sem domínio!” Apelação civil #22.575 (São Paulo: Prefeitura Municipal de São Paulo, 1944), 88. In relation to public properties and Cia City, see also Chapter 3.
Sérgio Milliet and J.F. Moreno, Índice das constituições federal e do estado de São Paulo com o histórico dos incisos e a atividade parlamentar dos constituintes (São Paulo: Departamento de Cultura, 1936), 1208.
Boris Fausto, “Prefácio à edição de 1997,” A Revolução de 1930. Historiografia e História (São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1997), 24.
Fausto, A Revolução de 1930, 15. Following the logic of a family metaphor—you do not choose your parents, as you do not choose your government—Fausto justified this patronage as the entrepreneurs’ desire for government protection regardless of the kind of government (desejo de proteção dos governantes), in A Revolução de 1930, 13.
Joseph Leroy Love, “Of Planters, Politics, and Development,” Latin American Research Review 24, no. 3 (1989), 127.
Font, James P. Woodard, A Place in Politics: São Paulo, Brazil, from Seigneurial Republicanism to Regionalist Revolt (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009).
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Peixoto-Mehrtens, C. (2010). Politics and Urban Change: Building the Pacaembu Stadium. In: Urban Space and National Identity in Early Twentieth Century São Paulo, Brazil. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230114036_6
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