Lygon Street

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.