Street Corners 3 Lavalle / Florida Buenos Aires (Argentina) 19 November 2009 19:25 Two red kiosks stand at the junction of these two streets in downtown Buenos Aires. Around each kiosk there is a neatly cluttered display of newspapers, maps of South America, postcards of the city and other tourist souvenirs. There are magazines for gossip, magazines for politics and magazines of naked women. Photographs of icons of twentieth century popular culture are also for sale: Che Guevarra, Eva Peron, Diego Maradona, Marilyn Monroe and Jim Morrison. Calle Florida runs approximately north to south between the financial district and the largest bus and rail terminals. This is the main shopping street with fashionable clothing stores, tea salons, money changers, street cafes, an ice-cream parlour, a school of English and the ever-present McDonald´s. In addition to the
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