Carlton
Inner-city grid of Victorian terraces and buzzing Italian cafes along a famed restaurant strip.
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This guide to Carlton in Melbourne opens in 1953, when a customs officer eyes a suspicious steel canister packed inside a woman's travel trunk arriving by ship from Italy, an espresso machine smuggled in for her son, Nando Varrenti. Back in Carlton, Nando runs into an Australian law that treats the machine as a boiler, requiring a license he does not hold. The guide follows what he does next, and the wave of postwar Italian migration that reshapes these streets in the years after.
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