submitted by Peter Tsicalas on 25.10.2005
L to R: Alex Coronakes, Mark Terakes, Sylvia Terakes (John’s wife), Maria Sourry (nee Terakes), John Terakes, Theo George Poulos, Katina Terakes (nee Sargent)
Steve Apogremiotis and daughter Irene. Irene married Con Goodelis 1956 and together they ran the Samios Café at Kyogle until moving to Brisbane in 1961.
Eric Crethar behind bar on left
L to R Gwen Griffin, Unknown, June Sharp, Barbara Hill, Francis Licklis
Paul Coronakes in suit
Paul Coronakes behind counter. Pavlos Spyro Koronakis, born 1890, Rachades, Corfu, landed in 1913 and came straight to the Northern Rivers, probably accompanying his fellow Corfiot, Denis George Kardamis. Paul seems to have spent most of his time around Murwillumbah until establishing the Canberra Café in Lismore in 1919 and the Lismore Fruit Exchange in 1923. In 1924 he moved next door, subsequently dividing the shop to separately house the fruit business and a posh café. He moved to Keen ...
L to R: Matina Crethary, Peter Crethary, Grace Collins Peter, born 1895 Karavas, the son of Nick and Stamatina (nee Kypriotis), is believed to have been educated in Smyrna before signing up with the Greek army in 1914, serving through till the end of the war and rising to the rank of Sergeant. After the war he joined his mother’s well-established Kypriotis family in Egypt where he spent 4yrs, becoming a cotton merchant based in Khartoum, before coming on to Australia in 1922 with his probable ...
By this time the Mecca had supplanted the Greeks to become the most modern, and arguably the most popular, café in Lismore, retaining a leading position to this day.
submitted by Association Of Kytherian University Professors on 24.10.2005
Dr. Cassimatis is Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs and Professor of Psychiatry, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine (SOM), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU). His responsibilities include oversight of the SOM’s clinical affiliations and of the University’s international programs. From 1995 to 2000, he was additionally the senior project officer for the design, construction and staffing of the University’s National Capital Area Medical Simulation Center, which was ...
submitted by Peter Tsicalas on 24.10.2005
Jones’ Tea Rooms was the original home of the Queen City Refreshment Rooms, opened by Alderman John I. Smith in 1896 and passed to Walter Gray in 1924. Gray passed it to Fred and Grace Jones 18mths later and moved further north on Molesworth to take over the MG Refreshment Rooms and create the Elite Cafe, which he passed to the Vlismas Bros in 1929. The Tudor was initially an ex saddler’s shop, converted into a café in 1927 by Paul Coronakes who passed it to the Jones’ in 1933 after ...
In 1935 Angelo Crethar acquired the freehold and remodeled the place, taking portion of the shop next door to make room for a series of two-seater cubicles down the left hand side. He also added a second storey, which became home to a very ritzy dining room until the installation of air conditioning in 1939, when the main dining side of the business reverted to the rear of the ground floor.
Anargyros (Eric) Victor Crethar behind counter The Star Court was opened by the partnership of Angelo Crethar and Greg Londy (Leondarakis) in 1930, but in about 1940 Greg walked out to establish a café in Casino, leaving Angelo to install various managers until he sold the place to Peter Crethary in 1942. Eric landed in 1936 and worked in his brother’s various enterprises, but mainly at the ‘Air Conditioned’.
Peter Contojohn (Kountogiannis) in front of bar and daughter Daisy leading large staff contingent.
Transitional phase on the way to morphing into Harry Eric Crethar at Greek National Day festivities, Bexhill near Lismore, in 1955. Harry and his mother, Panayiota (nee Georgiou), landed 1947 to join his father Eric who had came in 1936.
Spiro Angelo Dendrinos centre and Peter Dionysos Manias behind till The Capital was created by the Ithacan Vlismas Bros in 1929 upon acquiring Walter Gray’s Elite Cafe and giving the place a £1,000 makeover to indisputably become Lismore’s poshest restaurant. They went banana growing in 1937, passing the place to Dendrinos & Manias, a partnership of fellow Ithacans, who spent another £3,500 to make the place the classiest noshery on the north coast of NSW. As if that wasn’t enough, ...
submitted by James Victor Prineas on 15.10.2005
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submitted by Betty Summers (nee, Notaras) on 14.10.2005
Blackbutt, or Eucalyptus pilularis, has been one of the mainstays of the New South Wales timber industry for more than a century. Howard Spencer talks to north coast sawmillers Spiro and Brinos Notaras about the quality and various uses of this native timber. Growing up to a height of 45 metres with a diameter of 1.2 metres, blackbutt gets its common name from the bark around the base, which changes to a smooth surface towards the upper trunk and limbs. Blackbutt ...
Now they are ready for market. Blackbutt, or Eucalyptus pilularis, has been one of the mainstays of the New South Wales timber industry for more than a century. Howard Spencer talks to north coast sawmillers Spiro and Brinos Notaras about the quality and various uses of this native timber. Growing up to a height of 45 metres with a diameter of 1.2 metres, blackbutt gets its common name from the bark around the base, which changes to a smooth surface towards ...
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