If only we knew then

25/10/2023

25/10/2023

The recent reunion was such a success there have been immediate requests for another. We hope this time to reach more people for the

10/10/2023

https://www.facebook.com/aussiehotelinverell

Thank you to all the staff for helping make our reunion enjoyable and memorable.
..don't forget to watch those oldies with silver paper bags!

The beating heart of Inverell - Open Wed through Sat.

08/10/2023

We're creating a contacts list for people who went to the reunion and others who want to be on it, including those who couldn't get back for the event.
The contacts list is only for the cohort who commenced year 7 aka 1st form in 1972 BUT who attended at any time with that year group.
Send what details you want published to [email protected].
Include your current town/city if you want.

11/09/2023

Giving our Inverell High School IHS reunion a plug for the w/e 29 Sept - 1 Oct 2023. Yes, coming soon. Check out the website , you might be on it.
https://ihsreunuion2020.wordpress.com/
To let us know you're coming, just join the fb group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/897621378041873
and send us an email
[email protected]
[sorry don't seem to be able to make it clickable]
Anyone who went to Inverell High School in the group that went through 1972 -77 (including MacIntyre students from those early years). Even if you were only there a month, We'd love to see you - we 'made' each other a little bit of who we are.

commencement year 1972

19/08/2023

Check the group post

05/04/2023

DOROTHY AND CON FARDOULY
Inverell, NSW, 2006

In the late 1920s, Dorothy and Con’s father, Harry Constantine Fardouly (Haralambos Konstantinos Fardoulis), was operating the Alhambra Café (sundae shop) at 53 Byron Street, Inverell, in northern New South Wales. Harry had arrived in Sydney in 1912, aged 12, and had worked in Greek cafés in Tinga (with his father, Constantine), Inverell (with Jack Fatseas), Sydney, and in Toowoomba (Queensland). Harry ran the Alhambra until 1935. He then opened the Regent Café at 75 Byron Street. Harry suffered a stroke in his 40s and the business was then run by his wife Artemis (née Crithary) with the help of Dorothy and Con. In 1953, Con took over the café.

Con: ‘Even though we may have had academic aspirations, we just stayed on in the café after father died [1956]. We kept the family business running… We were known for our milkshakes, our orange drinks, our big meals and our polite and quick service – people felt that it was a home away from home… [but] after so many decades of waiting on people, we stared to decline… We got too old to cope with the pressures of keeping the café going… We started to restrict the functions of the place. We stopped the [full] meals and started having more tea/coffee and light food. You couldn’t get the staff anymore either. We started opening later and later and closing earlier and earlier… A week before Christmas in 2000, we retired – we bailed out… ’

Photo by Effy Alexakis, from the 'In Their Own Image: Greek-Australians' National Project Archives, Macquarie University, Sydney

THIS, AND MANY MORE CAFE & MILK BAR STORIES CAN BE FOUND IN THE NEW, REVISED REPRINT OF "Greek Cafes & Milk Bars of Australia" (Halstead Press, 2022):

http://www.cafesandmilkbars.com.au

05/04/2023

These people made us exercise...