New entry: “Περδικάκης”

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Ioannis Perdikakis: ran a hashish den at the end of Psaromilingou Street in Agia Triada, in central Athens, from around 1900. Later, the den is documented as having moved to Rouf.

It is also mentioned in the song “A μάγκας from the City” by A. Dalgas (1931)

A μάγκας from the City came, a hashish smoker

and sells his little black one at Perdikakis’s hashish den

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There is also a zeibekiko titled “At Perdikakis’s Teké” by Kostas Tzovenos, performed by Rita Abatzi. It is also mentioned in the song “A Mangas in Votanikos”, at the point where it says: “at the bouzoukia and cabarets, and at Perdikakis’s teké.”

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