George Regas Was Hard to Recognize
- Steve Frangos
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- December 15, 2010
By 1940, George Regas was a veteran stage and film actor who had toured Greece and the Mediterranean long before he made Hollywood his permanent home. Greek-Americans knew of their patrioti and avidly...
John 'Bud' Cardos: Hollywood Original
- Steve Frangos
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- December 07, 2010
John “Bud” Cardos is one of those legendary figures in Hollywood whose work you have seen in dozens of movie but whose name you’ve probably never heard of until now. Cardos has been called a jack-of-a...
Greeks and Social Dance in America
- Steve Frangos
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- November 22, 2010
The presence of Greek immigrants as managers, owners and promoters of places and forums for social dance in North America is easily documented. From small town social dances, organized by local Greek ...
Rethinking Billy Loes, the Dodger
- Constantine S. Sirigos
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- November 22, 2010
NEW YORK –Billy Loes, a star pitcher with the Brooklyn Dodgers Boys of Summer 1950’s fabled team, was an only child of immigrants and one of the first Greek Americans to enter the consciousness of the...
Hellenic Heritage Lives On in San Jose
- Steve Frangos
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- October 23, 2010
The Hellenic Heritage Museum is an especially unique expression of the many new Greek American museums, archives, cultural centers springing up all around the country. It is part of the 14-acre San Jo...
Greek Movie Moguls: How Sweet It Was
- Steve Frangos
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- October 09, 2010
At the birth of the film industry in North America Greek immigrants became immediately identified as movie theater proprietors. The names of leading movie theatre moguls, such as Alexander Pantages an...
Kotsonaros: Champion of the Mat, Movies
- Steve Frangos
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- September 25, 2010
George D. Kotsonaros is one of the most unique Greeks ever to settle in North America. Kotsonaros was simultaneously one of the most successful powerhouse wrestlers and recognized character-actors of ...
UC Davis Chancellor Katehi Has Come a Long Way
- Laurel Rosenhall - Sacramento Bee
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- September 20, 2010
Neil Armstrong's 1969 moon landing was a pivotal event for UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi. She was 15 at the time, growing up in a Greek port town where not a single woman had ever been to college. ...
Fond Memories of Springbrook Dairy
- Steve Frangos
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- September 18, 2010
Many Greek immigrants’ families owned farms, orchards, ranches, and vineyards all across North America. Every account we can gather of this aspect of the overall Greek American experience is valuable....
Comedienne Nellie Nichols Was Once Cathachakes
- Steve Frangos
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- August 16, 2010
Helene Cathachakes was the first successful Greek American comedienne of vaudeville, musical theatre, and Hollywood film. Cathachakes’s nearly 40- year career extended from her first great acclaim in ...
Georgia Drake, Greek Goddess of Song
- Steve Frangos
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- July 16, 2010
Georgia Drake (Tsarpalas) is the first woman of Greek descent to have hosted her own television program: The Georgia Drake Show. A lost moment in the Golden Age of American Television, to some perhaps...
Greek Paradise in Virginia
- Steve Frangos
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- June 28, 2010
It is almost incredible that John Paradise is a forgotten figure in Greek-American history. During the heady days of the European Enlightenment, Paradise was a highly respected intellectual, socially ...
John Paradise Conquers Virginia
- Steve Frangos
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- June 20, 2010
In a time when it is claimed that studies of the Greek Diaspora are on the rise worldwide it is well worth re-considering the life of John Paradise. This one man’s life brings together many of the end...
Now A Spelling Bee Contestant Blames the Greeks
WASHINGTON (AP) - Tim Ruiter studied some 20,000 note cards to prepare for the National Spelling Bee, only to be stumped by a skirt worn by men in the Balkans. The 13-year-old from Centreville, Va. an...
Greeks of the Great Northwest
- Steve Frangos
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- May 23, 2010
America was not the land of every foreigner’s dream. It is now forgotten that many, if not the vast majority, of the early Greek pioneers wanted to return home as soon as financial obligations and opp...
The Greeks of the Great Northwest
- Steve Frangos
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- April 17, 2010
CHICAGO - The history of the Greeks in the Great Northwest is well recorded. Still, it must be said that the vast majority of Greek Americans have not yet discovered the readily available historical a...
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