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Mick Adams (centre) in the Black and White Milk...

Mick Adams (centre) in the Black and White Milk Bar, Martin Place c1932

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Greeks

Sydney's Hellenic community is one of the city's largest and most influential, with a long and complex history. Greek-speaking people came from many parts of the Mediterranean, as well as Hellas itself, and have maintained their diverse cultural traditions at the same time as becoming part of Sydney's institutions and cultural and business life.

Greeks

Interior design

Restaurants and Cafes

Martin Place

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Wide street running through Sydney's centre, from the General Post Office at the George Street end, and completed when Sydney City Council resumed property to extend the street all the way to Macquarie Street in the 1930s. Lined with elegant buildings of grand design and lavish materials it has been entirely pedestrian since 1979.

Adams, Mick

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Pioneer of American cafe culture in Sydney with his chain of milk bars.

Black and White Milk Bar

Milk bar chain based on American cafe culture which was founded in Martin Place before expanding into other Australian cities and ultimately being exported to England.

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