Photos of Ponta Porã, Mato Gross do Sul, Brazil 1965

Ponta Porã, Mato Grosso do Sul 1965

First Peace Corps Volunteers were Bob and Janet Crites - BR12 - they arrived in late October 1964.

We have no information on who served after Bob and Janet.

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

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

Grande Hotel, Ponta Pora, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

Grande Hotel
The best Ponta Porã had to offer in 1965.

Janet, Bob, Pat and Gail L-R: Janet, Bob, Pat Day, Gail Fitzpatrick

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Dirt strip; no hard surface runway back then.

Cinelandia restaurant, Ponta Pora, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

Cinelandia Restaurant and movie 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 to the restaurant on the corner next to the movie house. The expats were from Hungary, Poland, White Russia, Texas, Tennessee, and five Peace Corps Volunteers.

The Argentinean Apple Cider was flowing!

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