What SC was like when Colombo Salles was governor; see old photos and curiosities

Florianópolis was still the largest city in the state, with 138 thousand inhabitants and 26 thousand households (Photo: Antigas de Florianópolis, Personal Archive)

This is what Beira-Mar Norte was like in Florianópolis in the 1970s… (Photo: Antigas de Florianópolis, Personal Archive)

The largest city in the state today was not the largest at the time. Joinville had 126 thousand inhabitants, 12 thousand less than the Capital. Ten years later, that number would almost double. (Photo: Classicalbuses, Reproduction)

JEC, 12 times champion of Santa Catarina, did not yet exist. Joinville was still divided between Caxias and América. (Photo: Roberto Alves, Personal Archive)

Blumenau had just reached 100 thousand residents and still depended heavily on the textile industry in the economy. (Photo: Adalberto Day Archive)

The Textile Industry Electronic Center (Cetil) had just been created in Blumenau, an innovative project that was the birthplace of IT in Santa Catarina. (Photo: Historical Archive)

Cetil, a pioneer in innovation and technology for the industry, was located in Blumenau (Photo: Arquivo Histórico)

In the 1970s, Itajaí Airport (photo) was deactivated and gave way to the newly opened Navegantes Airport (Photo: Itajaí Formerly, Disclosure)

It was also in the 1970s that BR-101 began to have a complete section connecting Florianópolis and Torres (SC). Until then, the highway was not continuous between SC and RS. (Photo: DER, Disclosure)

In 1973, during the administration of Colombo Salles, governments began discussing the construction of a new section of BR-470, between Gaspar and Navegantes (Photo: JSC, Archive)

Aerial view shows what Chapecó was like in the 1970s. At the time, the largest city in the West had 49 thousand inhabitants. (Photo: Digital Memory, Disclosure)

Cooperativism, already strong in SC, decides to join forces. In 1971, Ascoop became the Organization of State Cooperatives (Ocesc). In the photo, Cooper, from Blumenau. (Photo: Ocesc, Disclosure)

Santa Catarina had 197 municipalities, compared to 295 today. Cities like Correia Pinto (photo) and Otacílio Costa, separated from Lages in the 1980s, did not even exist (Photo: Regiane Machado, Personal Archive)

Criciúma was still experiencing the peak of coal extraction, which according to historians lasted until the mid-1970s. The city was one of the largest in the state, with 81 thousand inhabitants. (Photo: Disclosure)

It was in 1971, the first year of Colombo Salles, that the Santa Catarina Railway was deactivated, the only Brazilian railway built with German technology. (Photo: Historical Archive)

Itajaí, as incredible as it may seem, still did not live off fishing. It was only during the administration of Colombo Salles that the city gave impetus to industrial fishing. (Photo: Historical Archive)

The Santa Catarina Open Games were consolidated as a major state Olympics, with cities measuring forces. In that decade, Blumenau won every edition (Photo: Disclosure)

Lages was the second largest city in Santa Catarina, with 129 thousand inhabitants, even more than Joinville. Paper and cellulose companies dominated the economy in the municipality. (Photo: Disclosure)

In 1975, Colombo Salles’ last year in Government, work on the UFSC University Hospital, completed in 1980, was resumed. (Photo: Agecom, Disclosure)

This was what a summer season was like in Balneário Camboriú in the 1970s. The city was starting to become popular and had the first buildings on the seafront (Photo: Arquivo Nacional)

Balneário Camboriú was a city without skyscrapers of just 10 thousand inhabitants on the North Coast (Photo: Arquivo de Balneário Camboriú)

Zany Gonzaga was one of the presidents of Alesc (1973-1974) during the management of Colombo Salles. The others were Nelson Pedrini and Epitácio Bittencourt (Photo: SC Collection)