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Roma Fruit Palace

62 Market Street

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Fremantle City Library Local History Collection photo no. 2507:
This property was originally 62 Market Street. The Roma Fruit Palace was established by Salvatore Paino (d. 1966) in 1921/1922. He opened the Fish Supply next door [58-60] in 1929/1930. The family lived above the shop. They supplied fish to ships berthing at Fremantle, thus beginning what became Sealanes. Salvatore is in the waistcoat, holding the hand of Cono Paino, (1921-1926). Taken 30 August 1922.

According to Carmelo Amalfi's article in Freo StreetWise for April 2016 (below), the Roma Fruit Palace was the property of the Antoninon and RosaVergona, and that Salvatore married into the business by marrying their daughter Maria.

Cono was electrocuted when he touched electrical wires when playing on the roof. Here is a photo of his funeral cortege entering High Street from Market Street. (Source unknown, but it will probably turn out to be the City Library's collection.)

Page from Freo StreetWise:

References and Links

See also Fremantle Fish Supply, which was next door, at 58-60 Market Street.

Thanks to Pam Harris, (retired) History Librarian for identifying the source of the photo.

Thanks to Carmelo Amalfi for permission to republish the article (above) from Freo StreetWise for April 2016. (A Google search suggests there is a Facebook post at this address, but it's not appearing on my screen.)

StreetWise Media website.

Treadgold, Tim 1993, 'Clients are always right, night and day', Aust Fin Rev, 10 September (about the Paino family and the history of Sealanes).

Freotopia

This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 3 April, 2022 and hosted at freotopia.org/buildings/romafruitpalace.html (it was last updated on 5 April, 2024), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.