The postwar village · Village life
Grill houses for travellers at the junction
1960–2010 Tradition
On the old national road, where cars and the KTEL buses stopped at the junction before the long climb towards Tripoli, a row of grill houses fed drivers and passengers. In 1963 a newspaper already described the summer "caravans of cars" resting in Myloi on their way into the Peloponnese.
Read the full story: Back in time: Myloi in 1963
- Threads
- Village life
- Certainty
- Tradition myth, legend or oral memory
Pictures
Souvlaki skewers with pita, fries and tzatziki: the dish Myloi is known for. Visit Myloi
Sources
- Ηρώ Κουνάδη, «Ένας ύμνος για το σουβλάκι των Μύλων», in2life.gr, 13 October 2023 Open (opens in a new tab)
- Η Βραδυνή, 14 November 1963, p. 3
- Visit Myloi, Eat in Myloi (food page)
Also in this period
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1950–1969
Souvlaki passed up to the train windows
Because so many trains stopped at the junction of Myloi, the village became known for souvlaki. Sellers walked along the carriages with trays of skewers and passed them up to passengers at the open windows; a magazine…
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1950s
A rural doctor for three years
Evangelos Koligliatis, born in Ira near Argos in 1922, served three years as rural doctor in Myloi in the 1950s, after two years in Filiates (Thesprotia). He later became a physician at the hospital of Argos.
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1950s
A birth among the sheepfolds above Kalamaki
In an interview recorded in 1988, the old midwife of Kiveri remembered a birth "above Kalamaki, up at the sheepfolds". Afterwards the husband had to walk to the road and on to Myloi to call the doctor: there were…
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7 April 1951
Census 1951: Kalamaki suddenly has 206 people
After the war and the civil war the community of Myloi has 639 inhabitants: 433 in Myloi and 206 in Kalamaki, four times as many as in 1940. The cause is not known; possibly families settled there temporarily, or the…