submitted by Tina Tsakiris on 10.05.2020
Hi Kae There's a Samios fighter story on this website. It might be him or a different one. https://www.kythera-family.net/en/people/notable-kytherians/george-samios-5302 or this....https://www.facebook.com/PerseasBoxingClub/photos/a.527437277374443/1484485331669628/?type=1&theater Goodluck Regards Tina
submitted by Effy Alexakis on 25.06.2018
“GREEK CAFES & MILK BARS OF AUSTRALIA” LECTURE IN KYTHERA
Authors of "Greek Cafes & Milk Bars of Australia", Effy Alexakis and Leonard Janiszewski will be in Kythera this northern summer to present an extended version of their popular café and milk bar history lecture.
Kytherians were conspicuous in Australia’s food-catering industry particularly from the 1890s ...
submitted by Effy Alexakis on 02.04.2017
A BIG THANK YOU to all who attended and enjoyed the presentation at KATOOMBA'S famous PARAGON CAFE by EFFY ALEXAKIS & LEONARD JANISZEWSKI – the collective "buzz", involvement, comments and questions by the audience were fantastic!! Jack Simos (who commenced operating the Paragon back in 1916) would have been proud! More lectures will be scheduled during 2017 at various venues around the country – so keep updated by checking the "Greek Cafes & ...
submitted by Effy Alexakis on 18.03.2017
DATE: Saturday 1st April 2017
TIME: 2.30pm – 4.30pm
VENUE: Paragon Café, 65 Katoomba Street, Katoomba, NSW
An illustrated lecture by social historian Leonard Janiszewski and documentary photographer Effy Alexakis
Back by popular demand as part of the 2017 GREEK FESTIVAL OF SYDNEY!
This lecture at the famous Paragon Café, Katoomba, will highlight the content ...
submitted by Effy Alexakis on 13.03.2017
Macquarie University researchers Effy Alexakis and Leonard Janiszewski will be presenting Greek cafe and milk bar history lectures at ORANGE and COWRA LIBRARIES on the 16th and 17th of March respectively. Orange is an evening event (commencing at 5.30pm) whilst Cowra will take place in the afternoon (commencing at 2.00pm). To book seats please call Jasmine Vidler on (02) 6393 8125 OR book on line:
submitted by Effy Alexakis on 08.02.2017
Greek Café & Milk Bar Lecture and Afternoon Tea at the Niagara Café at Gundagai
DATE: Saturday 11th March
TIME: 3 – 4.30 pm
VENUE: 142 Sheridan Street Gundagai
An illustrated lecture by social historian Leonard Janiszewski and documentary photographer Effy Alexakis.
In an Australia we still remember, in each suburb and every country town, was a Greek café ...
submitted by Effy Alexakis on 24.10.2016
Kytherians in Adelaide, you are kindly invited to the launch of Greek Cafes & Milk Bars of Australia.
The event on the 15th November is being hosted by the MARAS group, and the book will be launched by Senator Nick Xenophon.
Please RSVP is you wish to attend. See the details on the invitation.
www.cafesandmilkbars.com.au
submitted by Stephen Trifyllis on 05.10.2016
a great lunch at one of the island finest restaurants ... panaretos in the platia of potamos .. magnificent , food like my mother , grandmothers cooked in years gone by .. kali orixi !!
submitted by Effy Alexakis on 03.08.2016
Melbourne Book launch of Greek Cafes and Milk Bars of Australia will be hosted at the Greek Centre on Wednesday 10th August at 7pm, 168 Lonsdale St Melbourne, RSVP to rsvp@greekcentre.com.au
A lecture will also be presented at Brunswick Library on thursday 11th August at 7.30 pm, cnr Sydney Road and Dawson St, Brunswick. RSVP 03 9389 8600 or readmore@moreland.vic.gov.au
If ...
submitted by Effy Alexakis on 16.06.2016
Book launch and lecture on the 13th July at The Greek Club in Sth Brisbane. Please RSVP 3249 1000.
submitted by Effy Alexakis on 03.05.2016
Effy Alexakis and Leonard Janiszewski will be giving a lecture and launching their book Greek Cafes and Milk Bars of Australia at the Hellenic Club in Canberra on the 16th May @ 7.30pm.
RSVP to Lisa on 6162 6624 or email lisa@hellenicclub.com.au
submitted by Sunday Telegraph on 08.11.2015
Sunday Telegraph, November 8, 2015 page 12 Brendan Wong Photograph: The large crowd that turned out for the auction of The Rio milk bar in Summer Hill. Picture: Sam Ruttyn In its heyday it was the go-to place for greasers, lured by a jukebox full of hits and a steady stream of milkshakes — but the site of famed Summer Hill milk bar The Rio will get a new injection of life after selling for a figure around the $1.7 million mark. The property ...
submitted by Neos Kosmos, Melbourne on 29.05.2015
The museum was created in a 1930s cinema and café established by Kytherian migrants. Neos Kosmos, Melbourne 28 May 2015 View / download a .pdf version of the article: Roxy wins Museums Australia Award Sat 23 May 2015 self-contained.pdf MICHAEL SWEET The Roxy Museum at Bingara in northern NSW has won a Museums and ...
submitted by Barbara Zantiotis on 22.04.2015
My father Stephen has many memories of the Paragon Cafe in Katoomba. He thinks this paper bag is from one of his visits there in 1949! I found it in a little box!
submitted by Greek-Australian Cafe Culture on 31.03.2015
Photograph: Bouillabaisse recipe. Nicholas Tselementes’ Greek cookery 1959, 20-21. Courtesy Maria Theodorakis. Photo: Toni Risson An Essay in: TEXT Special Issue 24: Cookbooks: writing, reading and publishing culinary literature in Australasia (eds) Donna Lee Brien and Adele Wessell, October 2013 by Toni Risson Bibliographical note: Dr Toni Risson’s research interests focus on popular culture. Food, in particular, ...
submitted by The Australian Newspaper on 03.11.2014
The AUSTRALIAN September 20, 2014 Kylar Loussikian Journalist Sydney Photograph: One of the last of a dying institution. Illustration. Eamon Donnelly. It all started for Eamon Donnelly when he revisited the fondly remembered milk bar of his childhood, in Geelong. Ten years ago, Melbourne illustrator Eamon Donnelly decided to revisit his childhood home in suburban Geelong and take one last peek through the back fence.
submitted by The Land, Newspaper on 10.10.2014
PETER AUSTIN Peter Austin is a former editor and long time columnist and property writer for The Land The Land 03 Oct, 2014 Photograph: Mr Pippos with young customers in 2008 What a double whammy of bad news it was for the good folk of Brewarrina in the August 28 edition of The Land. The cover story, featuring a picture of local grazier Ed Fessey with the Premier, Mike Baird, concerned the ongoing drought gripping ...
submitted by The Australian Newspaper on 10.10.2014
ANDREW PIPPOS THE AUSTRALIAN AUGUST 26, 2014 THE Cafe De Luxe in Brewarrina was one of the last of its kind. Not so long ago, there were Greek-Australian cafes in every other country town in NSW and southern Queensland. They were an institution, too, in the main streets of the cities. The term “cafe” can be misleading: these had more in common with US diners than coffee shops of today, or the fish-and-chip shops of the 1980s. On ...
JESSIE DAVIES The Land, 25 Aug, 2014 Photographic: Aftermath of Cafe De Luxe blaze. It's been the heart of the community for a long time, and it's such a shock to see it go Brewarrina locals are mourning the loss of their iconic Cafe De Luxe which was destroyed by fire on Sunday night. Unchanged since it first opened its doors in 1926, the Cafe was a gem to both locals and tourists, who enjoyed sodas, thick shakes and conversation ...
JESSIE DAVIES The Land, 25 Aug, 2014 Photographic: Brewarrina's iconic Cafe De Luxe ablaze. It's been the heart of the community for a long time, and it's such a shock to see it go Brewarrina locals are mourning the loss of their iconic Cafe De Luxe which was destroyed by fire on Sunday night. Unchanged since it first opened its doors in 1926, the Cafe was a gem to both locals and tourists, who enjoyed sodas, thick shakes ...
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