Bondi Junction
JACK MESSINA'S FRUIT & VEG
Address:
Oxford St
Suburb:
Bondi Junction
Postcode:
2022
Fruitshop Start Year:
1956
Fruitshop End Year:
1960
Owners Name:
Giovanni Messina
Employees Name:
Carmelo Chillari "Carmelo (Mel) Chillari fondly remembers his time as an employee at Jack Messina’s Fruit & Veg, Bondi Junction, Sydney. My name is Carmelo (Mel) Chillari; I arrived in Sydney, Australia at No 13 Pyrmont, on board the “Oceania” on the 15 November 1956, at the age of fourteen years, together with my mother, elder sister and younger brother, to join my father, who had arrived in 1949. We came from Fiumefreddo di Sicilia, Province of Catania in Sicily, where we had our family home and grew up. Bondi Fruitshop Barone
Address:
590 Oxford St
Suburb:
Bondi Junction
Postcode:
2022
Fruitshop Start Year:
1936
Fruitshop End Year:
1962
Owners Name:
Biagio Barone
Employees Name:
Annetta Barone
Employees Name:
Nancy Barone
Employees Name:
Salvatore Barone
Employees Name:
Biagio Pelligra
Employees Name:
Gino Casella Born 24 August 1904, Comiso, Provincia Ragusa, Sicily, Biagio Barone migrated to Australia on 26 January 1926. Biagio rented a shop space from Antonino Lopes on Oxford St, Bondi Junction in 1936, operating a fruit shop there for about twelve months before he married Annetta Iacono. Annetta Iacono, born 27 May 1914, had migrated to Australia from the Aeolian Islands, Lipari, Provincia Messina, Sicily on 3 December 1923. The shop was a mixed business, selling fruit and vegetables, drinks, ice cream, confectionary, cigarettes, medicines such as Vincent’s and |
