Places
Ice factory
9 events
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April 1907
First stone of the ice factory Amymone
In early April 1907 the first stone of the first ice factory of Myloi was laid behind Barber Ali's watermill. The founders were the cousins Ioannis Vasilopoulos, a distiller in Tripoli, and Konstantinos G. Vasilopoulos,…
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4 August 1907
The ice factory Amymone opens
The factory was inaugurated on a Sunday in July 1907 (old calendar) and made ice and lemonade from early August. Its second-hand machines came from the Athens ice factory Olympos; it produced 250–300 blocks a day, sold…
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9 July 1912
The Olympos ice company sues over the machines
On 26 June 1912 (old style) the Athens court dealt with a claim of the ice company Olympos against the brothers Konstantinos and Ioannis G. Vasilopoulos for a bill of exchange of 3,975 drachmas. It was almost certainly…
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1917
The ice factory Amymone stops
With several interruptions the Amymone worked for ten years, from 1907 to 1917. Then work stopped suddenly, because of the old machines, low demand or, most likely, money troubles; the workers were laid off.
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13 July 1941
Aerial photo: the northern water mill on the shore
North of the village the photographs of 13 July 1941 show a mill building of about 21 by 7 metres on the shore, fed by a walled, dead-straight mill race from the northern spring at the foot of Pontinos, with an outlet…
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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…
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13 October 1957 – 10 November 1957
A newspaper series on the first ice factory
Between 13 October and 10 November 1957 the Argos weekly Άσπις του Άργους printed four instalments of A. P. Tsakopoulos's "Historical notes: the first ice factory of Myloi–Lerna". Written partly from memory, it is the…
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12 February 1958 – 22 June 1958
The ice factory «Η Λέρνη» runs into debt
On 12 February 1958 the "cold industry of Myloi «Η Λέρνη»" announced that it would start paying its creditors in June, and in May Vasileiou called thirteen creditors to a meeting at the factory on 22 June 1958. Work…
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1966
A "factory" on the British chart
The British Admiralty chart 1518 of 1966 marks a building labelled "Facty" just north-west of the root of the Myloi pier. It is probably the building of the ice factory «Η Λέρνη» on the beach.
People
- Konstantinos G. Vasilopoulos Co-founder of the ice factory Amymone
- Anastasios Vasileiou Industrialist, ice factory Lerni (1950–1958)
- A. P. Tsakopoulos Local historian (1957)