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La Boca: Conventillos: shared tenement houses where families or single men rented rooms, often the first home of newly arrived immigrants. In 1880 Buenos Aires had 1,770 of them, housing 51,915 people, about a fifth of the city; La Boca's were built on wooden stilts. and Conventillos y tango: the conventillo courtyards are named as one of the places where early tango began to be danced, together with the street, in a port city of mostly male immigrants.†† 1880: Conventillos: shared tenement houses where families or single men rented rooms, often the first home of newly arrived immigrants. In 1880 Buenos Aires had 1,770 of them, housing 51,915 people, about a fifth of the city; La Boca's were built on wooden stilts.† 1880: Conventillos y tango: the conventillo courtyards are named as one of the places where early tango began to be danced, together with the street, in a port city of mostly male immigrants.†
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Conventillos: shared tenement houses where families or single men rented rooms, often the first home of newly arrived immigrants. In 1880 Buenos Aires had 1,770 of them, housing 51,915 people, about a fifth of the city; La Boca's were built on wooden stilts.1880
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