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Greek Immigrant Cafe Owners Left Their Mark in Australia

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GREEK IMMIGRANT CAFE OWNERS LEFT THEIR MARK IN AUSTRALIA by TNH Staff published in The National Herald April 25, 2020 The National Herald has given HellenicGenealogyGeek.com permission to post articles that are of interest to our group. -------------------------------------------- QUEENSLAND, Australia – The Greek immigrant experience is especially associated with restaurants and cafes around the world. Wherever Greeks went, their traditional values of philoxenia and philotimo went with them. This was also true for the Lathouras brothers who immigrated to Australia from Alatsata in Asia Minor in 1906, the State Library of Queensland noted on its website.  By 1923 Jannos (Jack) Lathouras and his brothers, Michael and Mark, had opened two cafes in the main street of Bundaberg, Bourbong Street. Bundaberg was a thriving provincial Queensland town during the 1920s.  Jack Lathouras worked in several locations, including Melbourne, Brisbane and Ingham before joining his cousins, John...