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Skipping down the tree-shaded sidewalk lined with white-washed fences, a little girl with long braided hair swings her arms to and fro, to and fro, sweeping her pinafore folds as she goes, as she goes. Keeping her synchr...
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...an endearing, story concerns Harry’s somewhat shaky grasp of written English. On one occasion, one of Harry’s guests had been a circuit judge from Brisbane who used to stay at the hotel, and who, every year, would go...
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Qantas, Australians largest airline, and one of the world's oldest (It's celebrating its 85th year anniversary this year), had Greek names on its first planes. The names included "Perseus", "Pegasus", "Atalanta", "Hermes...
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Reproduced by permission from the author. From "Katsehamos and the Great Idea" by Peter Prineas, pages 181-182: "George Feros, the younger son of Peter Feros, unexpectedly found himself working at the Q Cafe in 1948. 'I...
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From around 1915 to the early 1960s 116 country picture theatres in NSW were at some time operated by 66 Greek immigrants in 57 towns. Thirty-four new picture theatres were built by Greek exhibitors in these towns. It is...
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From, The ‘Greek café’: the future of Australia’s past In 1912, three Greek migrant/settlers from the United States, Peter and Constantine Soulos and Anthony Louison (Iliopoulos), formed the Anglo-American Company in Syd...
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Australia’s first dentist of Greek family was George Gengos. His father, from Kythera, had operated a restaurant and an ice-works in Moree. George, born in Inverell in 1914, attended Sydney Grammar School, entered Sydney...
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From the Newslettter of the Ex-Services Home, Ballina, September, 2002. PO Box 350 Ballina 2478 Ph: 6686 2383 Fax: 6686 6469 My entry into the world was in a small village called Karava on the small Greek Island of Kythe...
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After arriving in Sydney in 1905, 15-year-old Grigorios Kasimatis (later known as Gregory Casimaty) tried his luck in Queensland and New South Wales before settling in Tasmania. Gregory established the Britannia Café in...
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George Gabriel Haros arrived in Australia in the 1930s and applied his inventiveness to producing an efficient way of heating water for tea and coffee in cafés like the Britannia. While George Haros is probably best know...
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