Ponta Porã, Mato Grosso do Sul 1965

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Ponta Pora, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil to the right - Paraguay to the left. Taken 1965

Grande Hotel - The best Ponta Pora had to offer in 1965.

Bob and Janet's home in Ponta Pora., Their rent was about US$12.00 a month., Their combined PC salary  was around $100 a month.

Cinelandia Restaurante and moive theater,The "in-place".  One block off the main street that parallels the Paraguayan border. On Christmas Day 1964, a retired Marine Cornel, who owned and ran a coffee fazenda on the Paraguayan side, invited the local expat community, which was made up of a Hungarian, Pol, White Russian, Texan, Tennessian, and five PCVs.  The Argentinean Apple Cider was flowing!