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Black Bros Café, Goomeri
During the early 1940s a vigorous Greek community was growing in the South Burnett towns of Murgon, Goomeri and Nanango. Almost all Kytherians and related to each other, they supported each other’s...
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Astoria Café, Barcaldine
In December 1938, the Longreach Leader newspaper reported the Bellas Bros had donated the entire ‘opening day’ cash takings from the Astoria Café, Barcaldine to the Western Children’s Jubilee Health...
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Busy Bee Café, Kingaroy
Kytherian born Georgos Gianis Trifilis arrived in Kingaroy in 1914, working for fellow Kytherian Emmanuel Zervos. Emmanual sold the Royal Café to Georgos (George) and in the decade that followed,...
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Researching family history with the Torres News
The Torres News is a fantastic resource for Torres Strait Islanders researching their family history. This newspaper has been digitised and is available online on Trove Newspapers. Here I am going to...
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Bulimba Sparkling XXX Ale
I was researching the Queen Street Mall when I came across this photograph from 1984, looking south towards the Mall. Looking south towards the Queen Street Mall, 1984. Bulimba Sparkling XXX ale...
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Majestic Café, Cairns
George Blessas opened his café in Abbott Street ca. 1908. His was the third Greek café to open in Cairns after Arthur Cominos and Michael Pavlos. George was born on Piraeus or mainland Greece. George...
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Help us collect political ephemera from the 2020 Local Government Elections
Can you help us collection non-Brisbane electoral ephemera! The State Library of Queensland has a significant and historical collection of ephemera. This material, which is generally regarded by most...
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Melba Café / New York Sundae Shop, Brisbane
In 1918 the Girdis family began operating the Melba Café at 216 Wickham Street, Fortitude Valley. The family had migrated from Alatsata, Asia Minor (Turkey) and had initially run the Central Coffee...
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She won’t last a week
Guest blogger: Toni Risson, co-curator of the Meet me at the Paragon exhibition “She won’t last a week,” said Peter when she turned up for work that first day. It was 1939 and 15-year-old Gwen Mullins...
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“never…except by aeroplane”
Guest blogger: Mark Clayton Like other eminent organisations, Qantas too has its own foundation narrative – concerning two recently demobbed Australian airmen (Hudson Fysh and Paul McGinness) who, in...
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