Bom Retiro is São Paulo’s Garment District. I explored it once, about ten years ago, on a much busier shopping day. At that time there were many migrants from Central America working here, and using the second stories of the shops as their living area.
Photos courtesy of Vera.
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I noticed the adventurous cable transfers. I have seen similar on Malta and some parts of the Canary Islands. How do they ever find out what is what? Trial and error, I presume …
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I couldn’t find info on how they know which wire supplies what in the “gatos” (“cats” of wires on the utility pole) but Wikipedia has this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_pole
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