Sunday 1 June 2008

My corner shop


I've posted this before, but no time to take new photos before leaving on our European jaunt. This shop is jam-packed with everyday necessities, and those things you decide you need for dinner at 7pm on Sunday night. Open long hours, this is a typical example of hard-workign migrant enterprise. When i moved into my street in 1984, the owner was a postwar Greek immigrant. He sold it to the present Lebanese-born proprietor. Several of his 13 sons and daughters work there from time to time (including two you can see here). The family works hard, and the children are making the classic immigrant journey into the professions as they complete high school and move on to university to study architecture, pharmacy, accountancy and other professions.
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16 comments:

  1. i'm so interested in your city, nice to see how are thing in Sydney, i'm going to visit your blog more often

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  3. Glad to know things are going wonderfully for you in Italia.
    Is this the shop on the corner of Walter St, Sally? All those corner shops in Arncliffe are amazing, especially to have known them as they were 50 years ago (OMG...you don't know how scary that sounds!!) and then to see what they are now. However, their function hasn't changed at all.

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  4. Wondering what "Just Juice" really is. Have you tried it?

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  5. 13 kids! I can't even imagine! It looks like a great shop!

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  6. Nice photo of your country store.

    While on your European Jaunt, or before you get there, why not pop over and say hello.

    Brookville Daily Photo

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  7. A storekeeper with the smile:
    It is the storekeeper who has customers!

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  8. The store looks great. I would stop by, the people look friendly. Have fun on your trip.

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  9. I tuoi viaggi in Italia sono molto buono?


    L'angolo di mercato fotografia si è scelto per oggi è molto piacevole.

    ciao, Chuck

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  10. That's a lot of kids and a lot of helpers! Immigrants often seem to achieve success from self-sacrifice and industry. Good for them!!

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  11. great post
    have a great holiday

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  12. Sally, This vibrant photo is worth repeating. Your commentary about the family is a story repeated around the globe.
    Hope you are having a blast in your travels. We want a photo report when you do get home. Some of us are going to have to travel vicariously through our friends until the economy cooperates a bit. :-)
    -Kim
    Seattle Daily Photo

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  13. Aha! I see the twisties.

    Happy Theme Day Sally!

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  14. This is the kind of shop I prefer (and we don't have and hardly we'll have thanks to Berlusconi gov. that put at borders foreign people)

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  15. I miss the corner stores like this back home... take care

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  16. Nice photo - bright and colourful

    Looks a busy little place ..

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