Athens: 21 unknown photos from an “old, magical” city
Unknown photos from Athens that transport us to another era
The Silk factory it is a pasture. Omonia is round. At Metz, windmills are turning. In Zappeion’s Aigli, everyone wears hats. American flags fly at the University.
Through 21 shocking pictures from the Athens of the previous two centuries, we travel to an old era..
December 1947. Giannakis’ Patisserie, at its beginning University.
December 15, 1959. A small pastry shop outside the Commercial Bank of Greece/Banque Commerciale de Grece store, on the ground floor of Megaros Papoudof, 2 University, where Giannakis’ pastry shop used to be. The photo was taken on the day of US President Dwight Eisenhower’s official visit to Greece (hence the American flags).
March 12, 1891. William Sachtleben together with the American diplomat Archibald Loudon Snowden and his son Charles Randolph Snowden in front of the United States embassy building in Athens, at 29 Vasilissa Sofia. The building was demolished in 1938.
April 27, 1941. Vasilissa Sophia. The descent of the Germans into Athens.
[1945-1949[1945-1949September 3rd street, as seen from Omonia.
1929. The Barbatiotis pharmacy on 3 September Street (now 22). The building was destroyed during the Decembrians.
1930. Dexamenis square in Kolonaki.
1969. At the refugee camp on Alexandra Avenue.
1911-1925. The Aigli of Zappeion refreshment house, which operated for the first time in 1904.
June 1931. Eponymon Street, in the neighborhood of Panagia Vlassaros. The last photos before the demolition for the excavations in the Ancient Agora, by the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.
1865. Syntagma Square.
1835. Silk factory. Conte Votsari House (now Aristomeni Proveleggiou house, at the corner of Milleros and Kerameikos streets).
June 8, 1951. Greek soldiers return from Korea. University Street.
August 12, 1963. Itinerant sponge seller on Othonos Street, near Syntagma Square.
April 1957. The Archbishop of Cyprus Makarios III delivers a speech from the Great Britain Hotel.
1890. Retailer of nuts on Amalia Avenue.
1958. Opening of a gas station in Athens.
August 12, 1963. Othonos Street, next to Syntagma Square.
1869. Yes, and yet, Athens had winds. Here, Mylos Argyriou, in Metz.
March 1959. Omonia Square, it was like.
1962. Chiller’s building, at 66 Piraeus Street 66, between Milleros and Thermopylae. Designed in 1873, demolished in 1963. Used as a prison during the German occupation, and later. The poet Tasos Lievaditis was also imprisoned here, who was released in 1951.
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