Corfu, 1958: Prickly Pears (Pavlosika)

A photograph posted on Facebook,
captioned as one of a series of slides "found in a secondhand shop".
Unknown photographer, Corfu, 1958

See article from LiFo.gr:

https://www.lifo.gr/articles/greece_articles/283768/spanies-fotografies-apo-tin-kerkyra-toy-1958-59

The photograph reminded me of these lines from my "Corfu Blues" and "Reading the signs":

Pavlosiko

(Open market, Corfu)

I love to stop

for a prickly pear

peeled by the man christened "Cactus".