There is a history in all men's lives.
Gengos Trefilly Wedding 1916 Inverell Times, Tuesday 13 June 1916 Greek Wedding The local Greek community (Inverell) had a gala day on Wednesday (7 June) of last week when a large number of friends and relatives from var...
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The following photos depict some of the Greek café paraphernalia held in the treasure chest of an avid collector of Lismore memorabilia, who wishes to remain anonymous. All the crockery was manufactured at various times...
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Gilgandra's Kytherian business history. 1910-2000 The Seven Ages of Man All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many par...
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The Gollan Milk Bar (85 Woodlark) George Sargent is now the longest running Greek proprietor in Woodlark, having taken up residence in 1936, but a relative youngster in the long run of Woodlark machinations. His shop is...
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The Crethar Hamburger Harry and his dad wasted no time in adding a series of mod cons, the culmination of which was the introduction of music selection boxes at each cubicle where the latest pop tunes could be chosen at...
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The Feros Fruit Shop (54 Magellan) Peter George Feros (Pikouli) had been doing a good trade here, mainly fruit but with a milk bar sideline, since 1946 when he came up from Ballina to go into partnership with his cousin,...
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The year is 1955 and 18yr old Harry Eric Crethar is doing his usual run around ‘The Block’, the local name for the major retail portion of Lismore’s CBD, sussing out the café competition in preparation for the launch of...
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Kytherians at War Greek Australian VEMA TO BHMA 7/39 April 2002 ANZAC Day Feature Compiled (with the help of many others) and edited by Ann Coward No, this is not an article about feuding families. It is about Australia...
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Central Western Slopes – Warrumbungle District Baradine Antonios Dimitrios Diacopoulos appears to be the Samaritan who brought the loaves and fishes to the Baradinian timber workers. He was 13yrs old when he began his pi...
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Angelo Victor Crethar of Lismore had the honour of leading the rejoicing on the North Coast of NSW over the liberation of Kythera in Sep1944. Quoting him on 3Oct44 the Northern Star, under the prominent heading North Coa...
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The NSW State election of 1925 had the ‘riff raff of Southern Europe’ ducking for cover, and demonstrated how hard economic times let the racism genie out of the bottle. Here’s how it panned out at Murwillumbah. The peri...
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In the early 1920s the economic base of the Richmond-Tweed region started to look pretty shaky. Post WW1 soldier settlement blocks had been created everywhere, substantially increasing the number of dairy farmers and fru...
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North Western NSW – Walgett Plains and Backa Beyond Bourke By common consent Bourke is where the line in the sand defines the start of the outback and where the locals boast that NSW’s highest official temperature of 51....
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North Western NSW – Moree Plains Ashley Too Hard. Boggabilla Too Hard. Boomi Anthony Emmanuel Travassaros tried his first café venture here, and gave the locals their first and only Greek experience, around the mid 1930...
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North Western NSW – Namoi Valley Bellata Andy and Nick Samios appear to be the first Kytherians to have discovered the place when they followed the swaggies’ trail from Narrabri in 1926. Nineteen year old Andy, his two...
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Lower New England Barraba The Barrabarians were civilized in late 1905 by a subtle new twist to the euphoric fragrance of frying onions, that great cooking smell, wafting out of a shop in Queen Street. Standing at the st...
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Central New England Armidale Nick John Veneris (Hellen), 16yrs old when he landed from Gerakitianika in late 1900 with Anargyros Zakharis Panaretos of Gunnedah, could be the bloke advertising himself as ‘N. Venares, frui...
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Upper New England Tablelands Emmaville The venerable firm of Venardo & Aroney founded a café here in 1906. Aroney was Theo Peter who landed in 1903, aged 21, and was granted a license to practice catering after 3yrs supe...
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Upper Hunter Valley Aberdeen Theo Harry Catsoulis, the farmer earlier of Grafton, Casino and Bellingen, came here with his family in the late war years and remained through to at least the early 1920s, perhaps retailing...
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The Hunter Region Cessnock Seventeen year old Mick Emmanuel Potiri led the Catering Corps into Cessnock in 1908 after a brief cadetship with his brother George on the Tablelands. Four and a half years later he passed com...
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