Diaspora Vintage Portraits/ People
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Chrysanthy Mavromatis and son Minas
Minas Mavromatis was born about 1900 and migrated in his teenaged years to Australia were he found employment. Some years later, he migrated to Bakersfield, California, where he worked in the agriculture industry and als...
Open entryTheodoros Trifillis: soldier, chef, and gold prospector
Theodoros Trifillis was born about 1880. He served in the Greek Army. Later he became the chef for the King of Greece. He eventually migrated to Bakersfield, California some years later. There he prospected for gold in t...
Open entryAnastasios Megaloeconomos at the kafeneion
My grandfather, Anastasios Megaloeconomos, mellowing out at a kafeneion in Potamos during the early 1900s. His three teenaged sons, Theodoros, Ioannis (my father), and Nickolaos, were in Pennsylvania working and sending...
Open entryAnastasios Theodoros Megaloeconomos and son Ioannis Anastasios Megaloeconomos
Anastasios (my paternal grandfather) and his second son Ioannis (my father) of Potamos in 1902 or 1903. Anastasios was married to Chrysanthy Clenzos (sp) and raised five children--Theodoros, Ioannis, Nickolaos, Marouli,...
Open entryIoannis Anastasios Megaloeconomos and Kytherian garrison, 1919
My father, Ioannis A. Megaloeconomos, served in the Greek army during the WW I. At the end of the War, commanded of a small garrison of soldiers occupying Kythera on the side of the Royalists during the Ethnikos Dikhasmo...
Open entrySandy McNaughton. Manager, Roxy Complex, Bingara, New South Wales.
Sandy McNaughton is one of the great Philokytherians and Philohellene's. Her endeavours in helping refurbish and establish the Roxy Cinema, Roxy Cafe and Roxy Museum at Bingara, in northwestern New South Wales, has been...
Open entryDiamantis and Yanoula Chlentzos and granddaughters
Diamantis and Yanoula Chlentzos with granddaughters Sandy and Janet. Photo taken in 1954 in Los Angeles, California
Open entryChris Collins (Koulentianos) and family
Chris Collins (Koulentianos), his wife Eugenia, and children. Photo taken at Emm. Sofios studios in Kythera on 26 April, 1958. Chris returned to Kythera after a stint in the USA, and ultimately relocated to Chania in Cre...
Open entryMy father, Bill (Vasilios) Chlentzos
Photo taken at Witzel Studios in Los Angeles in 1932
Open entryGeorge Diamantis Chlentzos
My uncle George Diamantis Chlentzos, who sadly passed away at the age of 6 from infantile paralysis (polio) in Salinas, California in 1926.
Open entryDiamantis Chlentzos in Yokohama, Japan c. 1905
My grandfather Diamantis Chlentzos. Photo taken in Yokohama, Japan, most likely in 1905 when he sailed as a ship's carpenter from Sydney to San Francisco.
Open entryChlentzos family in Los Angeles c. 1954-- who are the visitors from Australia?
Three generations of the Chlentzos family in Los Angeles, c. 1954 Front row: Philip Adkins, Keith Adkis, Ann Chlentzos Dryden, Cal Dryden, Diamantis Chlentzos, Yanoula Koulentianos Chlentzos, John Alfieris, Mary Chlentzo...
Open entrySteven Clensos, Hollywood makeup artist and actor
Shown second from left is my uncle Steven Clensos, shown in a publicity photo for a Hollywood Western film. Steve was a well-known Hollywood makeup artist, writer, and actor. View his filmography at http://www.imdb.com/n...
Open entryLeonard (Len) George Notaras
AM 2003. LL.BA (Hons), BMed, MHA, DipComm (Newcastle), AFCHSE, MA (Military History); Son of George and Mary-Theresa Notaras, born May 29, 1951, Educated at Marist Brothers, Newcastle. Married to Robyn Cahill. Executive...
Open entryDiamantis and Yanoula Chlentzos
My grandparents, Diamantis and Yanoula Chlentzos, in Los Angeles, California on 2 September, 1952
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