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Rocambole Gang: A tour of Athens during the time of the Greek Bonnie and Clyde (podcast version)

Posted by Antonis Tsapepas on

Christofileas Brothers and Thanasis Ntounis
Cover of the reprint of Rocambole (1908-1910) & Napoleon III of France novel series portrayed as Rocambole (1867)
Hotel AMERIKANIKO on Zinonos Street – (20th Century Archive / Photographic Archive www.elia.org.gr)
Zinonos Street
The church of Agios Konstantinos (Saint Constantine) after the Asia Minor catastrophe (1922 –
Tsakirakis, Vasilis & Alexandros / Photographic Archive www.elia.org.gr)
The church of Agios Konstantinos (Saint Constantine)
Drosia tavern / Newspaper ΕΜPRΟS (1929) & Abandoned courtyard with perimeter rooms of the first decades of the 20th century in the area of Ellinoroson
Refugee houses in the area of Ellinoroson
Stadiou Street (1926 – Public Domain photo / Courtesy of Martin Baldwin-Edwards)
Stadiou Street
The now destroyed Attikon Cinema
The intersection of Akadimia and Ippokratous streets (Photo from www.lesxi.uoa.gr)
The taxi rank behind the National Library at the intersection of Akadimias and Ippokratous streets
The representation of the Tsagas murder on the beach of Kavouri / Newspaper ΕMPROS (1929)
The beach of Kavouri near the church of Saint Nikolaos
Panepistimiou Street (1930 – Public Domain photo / Courtesy of Martin Baldwin-Edwards)
Panepistimiou Street (Photo by Lapost from Wikimedia Commons)
Patision Street (1920 – Public Domain photo / Courtesy of Martin Baldwin-Edwards)
Patision Street near Plateia Amerikis
The intersection of Lefkosias and Kyprou Streets
Detached house of the first half of the 20th century near the junction of Lefkosias and Kyprou streets
Aiolou Street
Aiolou Street
The Notos Galleries department store on Aiolou Street
Gendarmerie Grove
The number 22 of Zinonos Street where the old house no longer exists

Representation of the crimes of the gang in an article in the newspaper EMPROS (1929)
The building of Laiki Bank on Panepistimiou Street

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*[At the top: Photo from Library of Congress, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons]