Lygon Street
Tree-lined boulevard of Victorian terraces turned Little Italy, lined with espresso bars and pavement dining.
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This guide to Lygon Street in Melbourne opens aboard a ship crossing from Italy in 1953, where a woman named Eleonora has packed a full-sized espresso machine into a trunk for her son Nando, already settled here. Back on this street, Nando meets an Australian law that treats his machine as a boiler, needing a license he doesn't have. The guide follows what he does about it, and the postwar wave of Italian families who filled these blocks of Carlton in the years that follow.
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