Sydney Cafe, Ipswich, menu

Ipswich, QLD
Australia
18 November 2010
18 November 2010

Location

Ipswich, QLD
Australia

Menu from the Sydney Cafe, Nicholas Street, Ipswich, home of the mixed grill, displaying the dinner menu and light refreshments. 

Serviette, Elite Cafe, Bundaberg, c1940

Paper serviette, Elite Cafe, Lathouras Bros, Bundaberg, c1940. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Location

Bundaberg, QLD
Australia
18 November 2010

Copyright © Centre for the Government of Queensland

Bundaberg, QLD
Australia

Greek proprietors treated local waitresses like members of the family.

Copyright © Maria Kentrotis 

A list of soda fountain flavours can be seen on the sign behind Vera Dawson and Maureen Sheppard, who were waitresses at Londy’s Café in Ipswich in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Milk bars boosted the trade in ice-cream, an American delicacy that was used in freshly-made sundaes, banana splits, waffles, parfaits, jelly, and fruit salad. Many proprietors made their own ice cream until the World War II, when Peters Ice Cream, founded by an American in Sydney in 1907, dominated the market. Hamburgers were introduced through the US military forces in the 1940s and were popular in Greek snack bars. And while Australian lollies like Fantales and Minties were especially popular at cafés near picture theatres, the Candy Bar and American candies such as Cowboy Chews and Texas Chews betray the influence of the American candy store.

Copyright © Maureen Sheppard 

Andrew Tanos who lived above the Sydney Café in Ipswich. Collection of Andrew Tanos

George and Vasi Kentrotes in the Regal Café Ipswich in the 1970s. Marriage by proxenia involved the proxeniti finding a prospective bride in Greece or Australia

Copyright © Joanne Stewart

The mango tree, 1974

After the pictures on Saturday nights the town made for Comino’s to eat mud-crabs that turned brick red when boiled or grilled trumpeter or steaks heaped with onions while Georgi, his coat off and

1 January 1974
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Sydney

Marina Londy (left) visiting the nearby Regal Café in Ipswich 1952. Collection of Vasiliki Kentrotes

Copyright © Vasiliki Kentrotes

Athens Oyster Saloon, Longreach can be seen in the centre of the image, 1910. Collection of the State Library of Queensland

State Library of Queensland image 145136

Blue Bird Cafe, Bundaberg, 1945. Taken from an elevated position to document renovations in 1949, a photograph of the Londy family’s Blue Bird Café in Bundaberg illustrates the features typica

Copyright © George Londy

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