Bizarre Brazil

In a sunny and hot day in February 1981 all Varig’s employees at Salgado Filho Airport stopped work to know the first Boeing 747 the company acquired. It was a very good holiday!

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This tomb was made in 1941, when it wasn’t clear who would win the World War II, if the Axis or the Allies and, if it was the Allies who won, who knows if the commies overcome the liberal democracies? So, to don’t be fooled by the events, this family provided their patriarch a half-communist, half-capitalist tomb for his beloved and recently deceased dad. Jesus, floating above the scene, makes a third Reich heil just in case. This tomb is on Sao Paulo’s Municipal Cemetery.

Yes, ideology is not something Brazilians care about. Click on the pics to a larger view.

Pics by Rico Ferrari

As I’ve posted before, Brazilian tech industry between the 70’s and the 90’s bootlegged every succesful design from the major foreign industries. Atari 2600 was a kind of an exception. Although some designs like the “Dactari”, the “Dactar” and the Dynavision were almost a copy of the 2600 with minor changes, Polyvox, a subsidiary of Brazilian consumer electronics industry Gradiente, bought the license and started to produce a local, legal version of this console. Bellow the TV ad of the product, sold as a high-tech device that would impress all your neighbors and even put you in trouble with the cops . For I was a proud owner of a ZX-Spectrum clone, though, I’ve never had a gaming console and never felt as I needed one, by the way. :^)

The family.

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