by Anthony » 16 Oct 2006, 23:46
[quote="alan c."]
Is it my ageing eyes or is Pat's Bar not there (to the the left of the Katerinettes building)? In a photo in Bus Stop Symi, taken I guess in the 1960s, there is a also a gap site there. When was Pat's built?
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One of my maps of Symi (no publisher's name apart from a tiny footnote saying [in Greek] 'Copyright Michalis Emm Arfaras') has on the back a detailed plan of Symi town claimed to be to a scale of 1:6100. It shows (or claims to show) every individual house and most of the streets, predating all the motor roads and has lots of open spaces where there are now buildings. For example between the bridge and the clock tower there are only two (large) buildings at the bridge end, presumably what is nowadays the National Bank of Greece and its neighbour, then a gap with only a scattering of tiny buildings until about half way along to the clock tower after which there's a major conglomeration.
I've often meant to try to match the things shown (and not shown) on this plan to what exists nowadays on the ground, what is quite clearly old and what is quite possibly new, but except in the obvious streets like Kali Strata (upper and lower), Kateraktis, what is now the asphalt road from Chorio square past Lemonitissa to St Nikolas, and of course the road round the harbour, it is difficult to relate the streets/alleys on the map to their modern day equivalents.