It has hosted intellectuals, journalists, and artists, from Elia Kazan to Emma Stone, served as a refuge for students during the Polytechnic uprising, and has been the perfect place for meet-ups and marriage proposals. Giannis Alabanos, the owner of Galaxy bar in the arcade of Stadiou street, tells the story and the tales of one of the oldest bars in Athens.
Narrator: Giannis Alabanos
Interview: Varvara Savvidi
Podcast Creation: Varvara Savvidi
Sound Design: Thodoris Moustakas
Sound Editing: Thodoris Moustakas
Music: “Cool Vibes” – Kevin MacLeod
Photography: Varvara Savvidi
Istorima is the biggest project of recording and preserving oral histories of Greece. Over 1,000 young researchers find narrators, listen, collect and save stories of people from all over Greece : Stories of their place, stories of love, stories that changed us or defined us, stories modern or old. Stories that are not recorded in the history books and that could be lost in time. Istorima is the co-creation of the journalist Sofia Papaioannou and the historian Katherine Fleming and is implemented with a founding donation from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) as part of his Youth Reboot and Empowerment initiative (learn more at www.snf.org). The more than 20,000 stories are being published in their entirety in stages at www.archive.istorima.org. Excerpts of the stories are published in the form of podcasts, videos or written stories at www.istorima.org