Carlyle Rowe

Carl Rowe has spent all his life in two streets and three houses in Parkside. His mother's family were market gardeners at Brownhill Creek and his father was a fruiterer and greengrocer who had had a thriving business in Moonta at the turn of the century. Carl began work on his father's horse-drawn fruit and vegetable trolley at the age of nine and became his father's full-time assistant on their Parkside and City rounds after leaving school at thirteen years of age. When his last horse died in 1964 Mr Rowe reckons that he was the last greengrocer working with a horse and cart on the streets of Adelaide. Mr Rowe worked another ten years in the East End Market before retiring in 1975.