Miguel Diomede.
Sin título, c. 1960

Eugenio Daneri
Barraca Peña, 1957

The trail between Garibaldi and Pedro de Mendoza streets, and Magallanes and Del Valle Iberlucea streets used to be a stream that parted from the Piguyí Lagoon until it settled at Vuelta de Rocha place. It eventually turned into a dry path which was converted into a railroad track that reached the town of Ensenada, until it finally became an abandoned trail of land. Upon Quinquela’s initiative together with other neighbors, in 1959 the rail road company was convinced to donate the land to the town of La Boca. The path was baptized “Caminito” in honor of Juan de Dios Filiberto, a tango composer who wrote the famous piece of said name. The legend goes that Filiberto used to walk to work every day along this path, to the Mihanovich Company where he worked as a mechanic, and this daily routine inspired him to write this popular tango.

The “Caminito” theater is inaugurated under the direction of Cecilio Madanes. Its first play was: “Los chismes de las mujeres” (“Women’s gossip”) by Carlo Goldoni.

Leopoldo Presas exhibits at Impulso.