piecing together leads about the Danforth

Continuing to my last post from Adventures in Greekland, Aaron, Michael and I are finally in unison, and I am researching our topic by calling several organizations that may have public archival collections.

October 3, 2008
Spoke with Greek Press Archives: Mr. Tassos who said that they have an archival collection at their office on Pape Avenue
Tassos gave me instructions to identify the dates we wanted, also they need to know the scope of our search, we need to send a letter to Board of Directors about our project and they will give us permission to search the archives. The PRESS ARCHIVES are only in GREEK.
He also mentioned that St. Dimitrius Community Centre has a library with archives, even though when we spoke to a representative at the community centre initially, they were reluctant to tell us much about their archival collection and they were very vague about the existence of an archival collection.
Some other information I dug up. Several published books on the Danforth including:

Mouratidis, Mike - instrumental in archiving a lot for the Greek community
His wife is President of a Cultural Organization
Published a book History of the Greek Community 1909-present
Has lots or resources on the Danforth area

AND:
George Gekas –Business Administration Prof at Ryerson, member of Board of Directors at Greek community has published books on history of Danforth

Searching for these books at the Ryerson Library and other libraries, I come up with nothing, several times. Must search again and perhaps call these individuals.

Also spoke with Greek TV OMNI's George Trialonis. They have many stories on the history of Danforth, and gentrification of Danforth. He is willing to give us the rights to the footage, but we must clear it first with Supervising Producer, Ms. Soares at OMNI TV.

Phonecall to Ms. Soares was taxing! As Supervising Producer at Omni Television,
she asked for a detailed email about our request, including what kind of visuals we want to use, how much we need and where it will be used. She was indignant on the phone with me after I had asked her about acquiring the rights to the footage should we want to use it commercially. She has not returned my detailed email. I must send another email.