A Greek originality, volthe traditional pavilion, symbol of everyday life for many generations tends to be led to extinction.

Having gone through 40 waves, starting as a privilege of the war disabled in which consumers found the absolute necessities, it evolved until recently into a small department store.

But the new living conditions reduced the clientele, and one after another the kiosks are closing their shutters.

There we made an appointment, got the first phone call. We ate the summer ice creams and told the first news

The reason for the kiosks, a very Greek patent.

In the beginning they only sold tobacco… Magazines and newspapers soon reached the tobacconists.

And there were so many that you could barely make out the small little window and the booth ready for commentary.

Newspapers at that time were the main, and perhaps the only, media in a Greece that was constantly shaken by war conflicts

In fact, the first kiosks appear as a form of financial aid to wounded and disabled soldiers.

In 1940, the kiosks sell “sweets” and soft drinks – orange and fizzy drinks, mint and cinnamon flavored chewing gum and later chocolates.

Somehow they are placed everywhere, in squares, parks, bus stops, in every neighborhood throughout Greece..

As in the 1950s there was no home telephone or chat, so booths with their telephone devices and telephones with meters and later with coin acceptors, the so-called red telephones, are essential for communicating with relatives and friends.

“Talk a little”. With this sign kiosks warned customers to shorten their phone call

The new living conditions reduced the clientele, and one after another the booths roll down.

Many were uprooted, others survived and little changed their appearance… but the habits remained the same. Memories that will never fade in the minds of those who experienced them.