King Momos of Santos
Waldemar Esteves da Cunha (born 1920) was King Momo of Santos from 1950 to 1956 and from 1958 to 1990, and until today, aged 92 and pensioned, he is the oldest Momo in Brazil.
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“This was the merriest old man that we had ever seen, and one of the best preserved. His style of conversation was coarse and plain enough to have suited Rabelais. He would have made a good Panurge. Or rather he was a sober Silenus, and we were the boys Chromis and Mnasilus, who listened to his story.... There was a strange mingling of past and present in his conversation, for he had lived under King George, and might have remembered when Napoleon and the moderns generally were born.”
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