Daily life | Skiathos | Sailors ~Narration: Maria Parissi
Most men from Skiathos would become sailors on the ships, to make money. And the women were alone on the island. They would wait a month or two, to get a letter.
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Daily life | Skiathos | School lunch in a cloth bag ~ Maria Parissi
They used to give us rations then. Every morning they would give us rations so we had something to eat. But we had these little cloth bags with an egg, a little bit of bread and cheese, and we hung them on our desk; when we went out at recess, all the children would gather…
Daily Life | Skiathos | How they took pictures ~Maria Parissi
– How did they use to take pictures? -Oh! People had cameras! Like the grandmother has here. They had the cameras and they took pictures. But not everyone had them. There was a photographer, two? You called the photographer. But then more people bought them.
Daily Life | Skiathos | Narration ~Maria Parissi
Papadiamanti street in the past and where the school was, water, where they took a bath, where they washed the clothes -And Papadiamanti Street, like you see it now, with the stores, it wasn’t like this. When you grow up, you will learn many more things. Papadiamanti Street was a stream, where all the waste…
Daily Life | Skiathos | The men who left on the ships ~Maria Parissi
-Skiathos, my children, didn’t have many men back then. After the war, people didn’t have a lot of money. We didn’t have tourism, like we do today. Everyone was a sailor. They left on ships. They travelled all over the world. America, Russia, Poland… Where else? Europe, Japan, everywhere. And they brought us many things.
Daily Life | Skiathos | Loom & What tools did they have ? ~Maria Parissi
– What tools did they have back then? – They had the looms they used for weaving. And now they embroider. The other tools, these were the same. Back in those years they had more things at Papadiamanti Street, there were stores that made tools, they made combs… They used a loom to weave the…
Daily Life | Skiathos | Pumpkins instead of life vests ~Asimina Georgakopoulou
There were no inflatables, no life savers. They took two pumpkins, tied them with a rope and tied them around their waist to swim. Because they would help you float. Two flasks, one on each side, and you could swim at the surface of the sea. They don’t sink. You have your inflatable lifesavers? We…
Daily Life | Skiathos | Soap made of oil from Skiathos ~Asimina Georgakopoulou
We would fill a tub with hot water and they would give us a bath with the soap of Skiathos. There were no bubble baths. The soap of Skiathos was made of oil. Not the good oil. The oil that was left at the bottom. The murky oil. And they made soap. That’s the soap…
Daily Life | Skiathos | Sewing machines and seamstresses ~Asimina Georgakopoulou
– Did you have a sewing machine or did you use a needle? – Seamstresses had sewing machines. Because you didn’t go to a store back then, to buy a finished dress. We bought the fabric, our parents would buy the fabric and take us to the seamstress, she would sew it, we had a…