Bob Onofri arrives at the shop he's been trading from since 1967 in a three-piece Italian suit and relies on nothing but a landline to get the job done.
"You could have a lot of tenants moving in and out, but there's a cost involved in that."
A tenant himself, Mr Onofri started renting his shopfront from plumber Roy Cleary in 1967, who operated out of the adjoining premises until he died 12 years ago.Many post-war migrants worked at the Port Kembla steelworks during the 1960s.Many of Mr Onofri's customers are from Italian families who have done business with him over several generations.
Mr Onofri, who was born in Italy, paid 20 pounds for a passage to Australia in the years after World War II.He found work as a boilermaker in the Illawarra before he moved to Wollongong and started trading as a real estate agent in 1961."Those days when we first arrived, everyone lived around the steelworks where we worked. There was nowhere else to live," Mr Onofri says.
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