- Men as young as 14 were sent to America and work hard, then return to Greece to their families.
- They usually found jobs as dishwashers, laborers, shoe shiners, or street peddlers.
- George Economou, one of the Greek settlers, was a U.S. Navy who served in both WW1 and WW2. He also lead the first convoy after the bomb dropping in Hiroshima.
- When the Balkan Wars erupted between Greece and Turkey, forty-five thousand Greek-American Immigrants returned home to fight on the behalf of Greece.