The milk bar was an embodiment of the great Australian Dream of the 20th Century – it seemed for many to be a place at the heart of their communities, a place where life was potentially fuller, better, richer, and optimism flourished. A beguiling place, a place that we would like to go back to.
Greek immigrant and owner of the Olympia Milk Bar from 1959 until its closure in 2017, Nicholas Fotiou, passed away last week, leaving behind a huge legacy that is tied with the shop he worked in for nearly six decades.
Five years on from the time the idea was initially proposed to the City of Sydney's Council, the fate of a memorial plaque dedicated to perhaps one of the city's most influential entrepreneurs is in limbo.
Australia's oldest milk bar, founded by Greek immigrant Mick Adams in Martin Place, Sydney, in 1932, has yet to be acknowledged with the placement of a plaque
Five years on from the time the idea was initially proposed to the City of Sydney's Council, the fate of a memorial plaque dedicated to perhaps one of the city's most influential entrepreneurs is in limbo.