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Helen Samarkos Tsoukalas was elected Miss Calymnos in 1953. She is wearing the traditional woman’s dress for the island of Kalymnos, called a kavadi. It usually consists of a robe-like silk dress over a white underdress and tied with a multi-colored…

Helen Samarkos Tsoukalas holds baby Anna Tsoukalas atop a sign for the Seven Seas Restaurant, owned by the Samarkos family. For many years the Halki Market on Athens Street, owned and operated by Costas Paskalakis, was an important source of…