Alberto Olmedo, in the bronze
April 30, 2007 | Filed Under Argentina |
The city’s got a new monument. Since yesterday, a life-sized bronze statue of the master comedian Alberto “El Negro” Olmedo sits on a bronze bench at the corner of Pueyrredón St. and Rivadavia Ave., in his neighbourhood of birth, Pichincha.
Pichincha is located just north and a bit west of the city center, starting by the old railway and port facilities near the Rosario Norte train station. At the beginning of the 20th century, it was a den of prostitution, mafia gangs, police corruption and disease, at a time when Rosario was called “the Argentine Chicago”; a natural consequence of the unchecked growth of a port city overflowing with poor immigrants and uneducated workers moving in from the countryside. Then the port traffic diminished, the country’s economy was repeatedly sunk in the successive crises we all know about, and finally the train system was mostly shut down and practically abandoned.
Pichincha has […]
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