The postwar village · Running the village · Water and mills · Village life
Georgios Koromichis and the new water supply
22 August 1977 Proven
As president of the community, Georgios Koromichis signs the tender for the water supply of Myloi (1.5 million drachmas). He also led the founding of a kindergarten in 1980. In 1981 he wrote of "eight years of our cooperation", so he probably led the village from about 1975 to at least July 1982.
- Where
- Myloi (the village)
- Certainty
- Proven confirmed by primary sources
Sources
- Γενική Δημοπρασιών, 29-08-1977 Open (opens in a new tab)
- Φειδών, 18-09-1981, σ. 4, «Απάντηση» (Μύλοι 10-9-1981) Open (opens in a new tab)
- Αργολική Φωνή, 10-07-1982 Open (opens in a new tab)
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 October 1950
First stone of the ice factory «Η Λέρνη»
Early in 1950 Anastasios Vasileiou bought the ruins of the old state warehouses on the beach of Myloi and levelled the ground. On 7 October 1950, after a blessing, he laid the first stone of the ice and cold-storage…