The owner of the Ace Hardware store in Roslindale, Josef (Joe) Porteleki was born in 1947 in Hungary, son of Gertrude Gerersdorfer, an Austrian national, and Joszef Porteleki, a Hungarian. Joe and his family were among the more than 900,000 war…
Born Anastasia Koutropoulos in 1919 near Ordu, a city on the Black Sea then under Ottoman rule, Tasula Macrides was part of the diaspora of Pontic Greeks, an ethnic group that traditionally lived in that area. During and after World…
Corner of Belgrade Avenue and Aldrich Street in Roslindale, 1899. Courtesy of Roslindale Historical Society.
