Friday, April 6, 2012

Rio cable car historical nuggets

This kind of reminds me of the opening from the Brady Bunch.


100 years ago, the yellow cable car above was one of only 3 cable cars in the world.  They used this cable car for 65 years before it was replaced by the cable car from below.

This was the cable car for the next 35 years (up until last year).

I was trying to get a picture of the entire cable car as it has a bit more Brazilian history 'behind' it.  I didn't realize until afterwards that, ahem, the cable car wasn't the only thing involving a Brazilian 'behind' in it.

Here's the other nugget of information behind the cable car from above... Bond, James Bond -- remember the 'Jaws' scene??

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