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Title: 28 People in a Rooming House - Interview with Jackie Hooper
Contributor(s): Hooper, Jackie (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Jackie recounts the living conditions and the various rooming houses from her childhood in the West End.
Extent: 00:01:32
Subject(s): Apartments, Housing, Living conditions, Family
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Beach Afternoons - Interview with Herb Nolan
Contributor(s): Nolan, Herb (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Enjoying the beaches around Stanley Park can yield more than just a good time swimming. We would swim from English Bay right around to Third Beach by the bridge and back again, and it used to take about three hours of swimming, but easy swimming you know: breast stroke, side stroke, crawl.
Extent: 00:04:10
Subject(s): English Bay (Vancouver, B.C.), Swimming, Stanley Park (Vancouver, B.C.), Beaches, Second Beach (Vancouver, B.C.), Third Beach (Vancouver, B.C.), Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Best Four Years of My Life: Memories of King George High School - Interview with Stan Brook
Contributor(s): Brook, Stan (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Fond recollections of time spent in a special stone building.
Extent: 00:00:55
Subject(s): King George High School [1913-1963], High schools, Schools, Teachers, Sports
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Caring Teachers: King George High School - Interview with Gary Pennington
Contributor(s): Pennington, Gary (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Gary recalls baseball, basketball, and many more memories of his time at King George High School [1913-1963]
Extent: 00:02:15
Subject(s): King George High School [1913-1963], Teachers, Sports, Dance, Teenagers, Active life enthusiasts, High schools, Schools
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Couldn't Find a Better Place - Interview with Vince Chessa:
Contributor(s): Chessa, Vince (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: For Vince, you couldn't find a better place to live than the West End.
Extent: 00:00:18
Subject(s): Fish and chips
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: A Day in Coal Harbour - Interview with Bob Adamson
Contributor(s): Adamson, Bob (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: There was plenty of entertainment for kids when they ventured to Coal Harbour.
Extent: 00:02:15
Subject(s): Housing, Money, Boats and boating, Canneries, Railroads - Yards, Shipyards, Active life enthusiasts, Playing
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: The End of the War - Interview with Jack Ford:
Contributor(s): Ford, Jack (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: The end of World War II brought revelry and celebration into the streets of Downtown Vancouver. “Trucks where … every inch of the truck was full with people … they were blowin’ the horn and yelling and hugging and kissing”.
Extent: 00:01:11
Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Exploring and Playing in the Magic Square Mile - Interview with Bob Adamson:
Contributor(s): Adamson, Bob (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Bob describes the fun he and his friends had living on the sands of English Bay, exploring the trails of Stanley Park, learning to golf and swim and waiting for the nine o'clock gun to go off.
Extent: 00:02:33
Subject(s): Playing, Sports, Swimming, Beaches, Golf, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: For the Love of Tugboats - Interview with Jackie Hooper
Contributor(s): Hooper, Jackie (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: All my friends were teaming up with boys and I wasn't; I was down in False Creek, hitching rides on tugboats. I was crazy about tugboats.
Extent: 00:04:40
Subject(s): Boats and boating, Booms (Log transportation), Tugboats, Money
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Fruit Trees - Interview with Jack Ford
Contributor(s): Ford, Jack (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Jack describes the shared housing he lived in as a child and some of the features of the Georgia Street area at the time.
Extent: 00:02:22
Subject(s): Family, Apartments, Housing, Living conditions
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Fun at the Second Beach Playground - Interview with Ellen Gillis:
Contributor(s): Gillis, Ellen (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Ellen describes the good times she and her friends had at the Second Beach Playground including learning the rules of the road through the Stanley Park Traffic School.
Extent: 00:01:31
Subject(s): Stanley Park Traffic School, Playing, Parks, Active life enthusiasts, Children
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1960s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Gordon House - Interview with Bob Adamson
Contributor(s): Adamson, Bob (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: In October 1942, the old Crofton House School becomes Gordon House; an important hang out and refuge for West End kids. What we would do in the evenings, we’d go to Gordon House where there was sports, there was boxing, there was basketball, there was arts and crafts, painting; that sort of thing.
Extent: 00:01:22
Subject(s): Housing, Playing, Sports, Gordon House (Vancouver, B.C.), Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Growing Up in a Neighbourhood Full of Parks and Beaches - Interview with Ann Frost
Contributor(s): Frost, Ann (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Ann describes the simple pleasures of her West End childhood; being able to explore the parks and beaches while growing up there.
Extent: 00:00:58
Subject(s): Housing, Parks, Beaches, Bison, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: High School Memories: King George High School - Interview with Delaine and Glenn Mackenzie
Contributor(s): Mackenzie, Glenn (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Delanie and Glenn Mackenzie recount their experiences at King George High School [1913-1963].
Extent: 00:02:00
Subject(s): King George High School [1913-1963], Dance, High schools, Schools
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Horses in Stanley Park - Interview with Ellen Gillis:
Contributor(s): Gillis, Ellis (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: From the special fun of Sylvia Hotel, to water fun with rafts, to adventures with Police horses; being in and around Stanley Park was a place to make memories and inspire future careers.
Extent: 00:01:49
Subject(s): Horses, Sylvia Hotel, Children, Family, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1960s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Houses of Suites - Interview with Glenn & Delaine Mackenzie
Contributor(s): Mackenzie, Glenn (Interviewee), Mackenzie, Delaine (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Two different houses converted to suites, and how the neighbourhood changed around them.
Extent: 00:04:02
Subject(s): Family, Money, Apartments, Housing, Living conditions, Yards
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: I Loved My West End Years - Interview with Glenn Mackenzie:
Contributor(s): Mackenzie, Glenn (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: For Glenn, living in the West End was fabulous!
Extent: 00:00:11
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: I Wanted to Stay In School Forever - Interview with Jackie Hooper
Contributor(s): Hooper, Jackie (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Jackie shares memories of her years at King George High School [1913-1963].
Extent: 00:00:42
Subject(s): Sports, Teachers, High schools, Schools, King George High School [1913-1963], Teenagers, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Impacts of WWII - Interview with Ann Frost
Contributor(s): Frost, Ann (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: In the traumatic time of WWII; rationing, blackouts, and wartime propaganda impacted young lives. We had the rationing, we had food shortages; you couldn't get a new tube of toothpaste unless you turned in an old tube of toothpaste.
Extent: 00:04:02
Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945, Japanese Canadian Internment, Food supply, Blackouts in war
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: It Was a Good School - Interview with Ann Frost
Contributor(s): Frost, Ann (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Ann Frost talks about the activities of the students at King George High School [1913-1963].
Extent: 00:03:48
Subject(s): King George High School [1913-1963], Dance, Sports, High schools, Schools, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories