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Images => People, Portraits, Street, PJ & Cityscapes => Topic started by: RBSinTo on January 18, 2019, 19:17:59

Title: Johnny and friends
Post by: RBSinTo on January 18, 2019, 19:17:59
Taken a few years ago during a street festival in the Little Italy District here in Toronto. Johnny Lombardi was an Italian-Canadian multi-cultural broadcasting pioneer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Lombardi
Among the various honours he received during his lifetime, was the city erecting a bronze statue of him in the heart of Little Italy.
During a festival I passed by the statue and noticed this humous scene of Johnny and some of his friends and took this shot.
Nikon S3 rangefinder
Cosina Voigtlander 25 f4 in Nikon s mount manual focus
Fuji 100 ISO colour slide
probably about 5.6 @ 1/125th
(http://www.photochimps.com/pp/data/500/medium/Johnny_and_friends-1920.jpg)
Title: Re: Johnny and friends
Post by: Hugh_3170 on January 19, 2019, 03:02:45
Robert, looking at this image reminds me very much of parts of Melbourne, where Italian influence is strong.  For example, Lygon Street in the Northern suburb of Carlton.

Melbourne had a significant influx of both Italian and Greek migrants in the 1950s and 1960s - so much so that Melbourne was at one stage the second Greek largest city containing Greek people in the world - second only to Athens. 

Migration has enriched the life of my town and no doubt yours.