European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 02, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Athens Larder maohou5e Market imagine a thousand butchers stand ing in front of hundreds of stalls one next to the other with More meat hang ing from Hooks than you Ever saw outside of great packing Plant in the american West. Imagine too. A fish Market with every conceivable kind of in blood from tiny shrimp or Init to to octopus. If you can stretch your imagination eve further conjure up a Market that contains o few Hundred More stalls with Ever kind of fruit and vegetable in irn xon. Then l it them All together and you have the new agora in Athens. The old agora which served am pc Nathens lies in another port of the Gnu t Uumo Pottan City which is parti. New a Orkand London All in one. But never even in the Halcyon Days of Athens t re  did the old agora even re s8.s photos by Guenter Schuettler Motely resemble the new agora of today. Actually there is nothing like this marketplace in All the world. It is one vast compound which Sells every variety of food for the table. At least 200,000 per sons throng this vast Market each Dayan on saturday nights the agora is a veritable mud House. It is the Athenia Larder. All of the butchers vegetable and fish vendors arc shouting at the same time "1 got Juicy Orang is shouts one pay no attention id him in 11s another mine arc  the atmosphere is like that of a  with thousands of 2so-Witu bulbs milking Daylight out of the night. Every thing is fresh and no Mailer what you buy Jou i a Sij Wiiri to Rel a full i la jul shoppers am la narrow a i of Athens new agora Marker a Hora everything from octopus to Artichoke is told. 1a Thi Stait and at various entrances to the new agon sit policemen with Scales in front of them. Suppose you just bought a Tew Pound of Lamb chops and think you May have gotten a Short weight. You bring your package to the policeman who weighs it chances art99 out of a Hundred you got on honest measure. If a merchant should Short weigh you that merchant is in trouble. In the fruit and vegetable Market or example you will find artichokes oranges hint inns. Long Rock onions Lemons apples berries anything in season. And the entire show meat vegetables and fruits Totth Market Breniel nil under one vast Arcade. You re Lemons i Luh Ilir half a Pound not i t wit Ikon s of Tilting two pounds. And till of the fruit is Mumy and clean. A Timith Nus Llumi Rinkos in millions. By meat in town new agora